Posted by Homer Boushey, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood, on Dec 18, 2011 at 8:05 pm

255 Oak Grove ? Does this Church sell stamps.

Editor's note: Good catch. The address is 655 Oak Grove Ave.

Posted by poor Dave, a resident of the Menlo Park: other neighborhood, on Dec 19, 2011 at 8:54 am

Since the current facility is owned by the Bohannon family, one might wonder what new bigger and higher building will replace this one.

Posted by Jeff B, a resident of the Portola Valley: Ladera neighborhood, on Dec 19, 2011 at 12:15 pm
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According to Palo Alto online, the address of the building being sold in Palo Alto is 380 Hamilton. It is the beautiful (and giant) old post office. Sad.

Posted by gunste, a resident of the Portola Valley: Ladera neighborhood, on Dec 19, 2011 at 2:22 pm

The driving distance and traffic will be worse for the delivery trucks that have to thread their way through Palo Alto to Menlo Park

Posted by Curious, a resident of the Atherton: other neighborhood, on Dec 19, 2011 at 3:33 pm

Will Atherton Post Office be closing then?

Posted by Homer Boushey, a resident of the Menlo Park: other neighborhood, on Dec 19, 2011 at 5:32 pm

Good point Poor Dave. A nice place to put up a train station stop with commuter shops and offices.

Posted by McVaris, a resident of another community, on Dec 21, 2011 at 8:35 am

The property is owned by the postal service not Bohannon. Maybe he will buy it. This would bring in needed property tax dollars. Also, the government is deliquent in the payment of services provided and collected through the tax rolls. These services have not been paid for since 2006.

Posted by , a resident of the Menlo Park: other neighborhood, on Dec 21, 2011 at 9:16 am

This story says the post office will sell a "historic four-story building" in Palo Alto.

What building would that be? Or is this just sloppy reporting?

Editor's note: Thanks for the catch. That was an error.

Posted by Reality Check, a resident of the Menlo Park: other neighborhood, on Dec 21, 2011 at 2:01 pm

Two things:

1) They just finished fixing the roof and redoing the driveway at Bohannon - there goes those tax dollars down the drain!

2) Does it not seem like overkill that there will still be 3 post offices in a small city like MP? Seems to me more like they shouldn't replace Bohannon, should also close down the Avy Ave one, and simply expand Oak Grove (or re-locate it nearby), since it's the one that is always busy.

Posted by Homer Boushey, a resident of the Menlo Park: other neighborhood, on Jan 4, 2012 at 6:37 pm

I got $5. that Bohannon buys it back,JACK!