Tenderloin Takes Post Office Fight to City Hall

by Jesse Nathan via Beyond Chron

Fri, Feb 15, 2008 6:51AM

Thursday, February 14, 2008 : Today, Supervisor Chris Daly will consider a resolution to call on the U.S. Postal Service to take action. Specifically, Tenderloin community organizations want him to approve a resolution demanding the USPS convert its post office at the corner of Hyde and Golden Gate into a full-service station. For years, the corner of Hyde and Golden Gate (the site of a minimum-service post office) has been an uninhibited trafficking point for drugs – not to mention a congregating stop for various unseemly, even dangerous denizens.

It’s for this reason, say a coalition of neighborhood organizations that the federal government stop allowing criminal activities at the site. The coalition, including Hastings Law School, The New Tenderloin, Tenderloin Housing Clinic, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, Chinatown Community Development Center, the YMCA, the Safety Network and the North of Market Community Benefit District, support the resolution presently before Daly.

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