MARK SCHUMANN
Vero Beach City Manager Jim O’Connor said today he is hopeful current negotiations between City Staff and the U.S. Postal Service will result in a new lease he can support. The current lease, in effect since 1963, has the Postal Service paying less than $20,000 a year in rent, while leaving the City on the hook for potentially expensive repairs to the building.
O’Connor said negotiators for the Postal Service have indicated a willingness to accept new terms he could also support. O’Connor had said he did not want to see the City continue in the property management business. But the new lease terms proposed by the Postal Service are, he said, far more favorable to the city and fair to both parties.
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Hope this can be worked out, since I believe we are better off with the USPS that provides mail delivery in some form to all of us–rather than our having to depend on private companies and online mail. Downtown location important to a lot of us.
Ever since I have been in Vero Beach since 1937, the”Post Office” has been downtown. The present location is the third one. It would be big change if it were moved.
The days of mail for communication are numbered. I pay a lot of bills online. soon it shall be that most get junk mail. do we need to have the government doing that? It wouldn’t surprise me if the public schools no longer taught how to write a letter and address an envelope.
I hope we always have a post office presence downtown. It’s our seat of city government and important to many of us. It brings lots of people downtown, which is great. I understand the city’s need for a more updated deal on the rent, so I’m hopeful they’ll work something out that is mutually agreeable.