post office

Contract post office closes; reopening uncertain

Written June 3rd, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

There had been a satellite post office in the Carriage House Plaza, the strip mall in Albany’s Willamette Neighborhood, for 40-some years. Now it is closed. It’s an open question whether a new one will reopen there, somewhere else, or not at all.

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Tags: Albany Post Office, Carriage House Plaza, contract postal units, post office, United States Postal Service

Covid test kits: Postal Service comes through

Written February 9th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

Say what you want about the government’s response to the Covid pandemic, but give credit to the post office for doing its part.

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Tags: Covid test kits, free test kits, post office, United States Postal Service

PO move? City panel keeps talking

Written June 12th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

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Albany Mayor Sharon Konopa’s work group on moving the post office and an old city-owned church building kept plugging away Monday but got no closer to the main question: Under what circumstances would the post office even consider relocating to another site?

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Tags: Cumberland, mayor's work group, post office

Students offer daring downtown designs

Written December 7th, 2016 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

Architecturally speaking, downtown Albany would be a more exciting place if there was a way to carry out any of several redevelopment designs worked up by students at the University of Oregon.

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Tags: Albany-UO partnership, post office, St. Francis, Sustainable Cities Year, Water Avenue