As a former Postal Officer in the United States Air Force, I cannot believe how far down the road we've gone in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service. I am shocked and dismayed that the billionaire Richard Blum would be so greedy as to try to profit even more from selling off Berkeley's historic Post Office. Although my PhD is from Stanford, I feel a klnship with the citizens of Berkeley across the Bay, and I deplore Mr. Blum's attempt to sell off part of Berkeley's history. Surely, Senator Feinstein must stop her husband from doing this. After all, she should represent her constituents and not any private interests. So my advice to her would be to tell her husband to get his cotton-picking hands off Berkeley's Post Office. If she doesn't stop him, then maybe she should no longer represent the great State of California. What's it to be Ms. Feinstein, your husband or your people?

In Alameda the wonderful downtown post office was made into the local Kaiser office. We have to go out to the mall to use the main post office. Although that one is only a 70s building that likely won't have a great deal of interest for the big corporations, it's located right at the water, where the McDonalds is.

Just think how wonderful our cities could be if citizens really had a say, if we really had a diverse input of voices.

Downtown Berkeley is decaying. I would be surprised if any major corporation were interested...there's already a hotel nearby.
HOWEVER, mark my words, I'll bet you a "Forever" stamp that UC ends up buying the downtown post office, with Blum as Regent
voting for it! I worked at UC Berkeley for almost a quarter of a century and I know how they operate.