FIRST REPORT: Sources tell TLS that the Post Office building on Clifton Avenue will be going up for sale and the Post Office branch is set to close. There has much been talk about the plan for some time, but the decision came yesterday from the post master after visiting the branch.
The reason for the closing is unknown at this time, but sources say it could be listed for sale as early as tomorrow.
There was an attempt to close the office approximately two years, but that move was protested by many at the time.
Should the building sell before the closing of the branch, the office may seek a temporary location until the closing date.
The only other Post Office in Lakewood, is located on Swarthmore Avenue, whice may become a full service office. TLS.
its about time , they have a huge deficit and in everytown in America they have prime real estate . sell it …
what’s going on with your spelling!!!
Good riddance, EVEN if we will have to travel much further now for a post office! This branch has the worst customer service, and a total lack of respect for its customers.
Is the Postmaster still waiting on line?
Spell check CLIFTON. Heading
The service is terrible there, but that’s because the whole postal system has no money. It will be difficult if the only post office is in the industrial park. But the biggest loss will be the building itself. It happens to be a very nice building. Just look at the picture. I would hate to see it go or “renovated.”
It is unbelievable that a town this size shouldn’t have a post office in the center of the town! It’s true the waiting on line there and lack of personnel was outrageous, and I personally avoided going there like the plague, but, still, I will miss the P.O. being there after all those years.
just another historic piece of old lakewood falling by the way side.
that building was built during the depression by WPA funds.
I’m sure the folks in Howell will welcome Lakewood families using their post office.
And the baby strollers.
Should be good for our budget.
#8 What WPA stand for? or mean.
Wonder who will get the listing!!!!!!!
#8 what is WPA ?
#8 WPA (workers postal association) I think that that was the original name for the post office of today.
NPGS
it’s a very nice building maybe they should make it a parking lot, but not a school.
Idiots. It’s such a such a busy Post office. what the…..
works progress administration
U can’t treat people like garbage and expect to stay open !!! How long did customers have to wait ? How many times did u walk in and only see one teller ??
WPA is the Works Project Administration. This was a program to put people to work during the Great Depression. It was one FDR’s programs to bring the US out of the Depression.
Unions are responsible for the postal problems they
Actually made money but after all the benefits that they must pay they are bankrupt. Thanks the unions again
id rather mail my letters, forms, package via UPS- and not have to fill out silly usps slips of paper for each of the following: 1 for tracking, 1 for confirmation, 1 for insurance, 1 for where it going, etc.
and then stand there and have each piece of paper stamped slowly by an 80yr old granny, and my box stickered by 4 different stickers (1 signifying postage, one with a pretty eagle on it signifying priority, one with tracking, one with insurance)
SORRY GUYS, TIME TO CLOSE UP THE MOM & POP SHOP, AND DO WHAT UPS DOES. ONE LABEL THAT HAS EVERYTHING INCLUDED.
-oh and did i mention the tracking is very inaccurate??
the branch in brick is great
Its such a busy post office. Why would they close an office that is making money for them. Half the people that use it don’t have cars to drive to industrial park. No wonder they are losing money.This makes no sense in less they plan on opening a smaller office in downtown lakewood.
hmmmm….could be nice townhomes…..or maybe some parking spaces!!!!! Such (moderated)!! Another “historic” building going to the (moderated)….Lakewood’s legacy to history…”TEAR IT ALL DOWN”!!!!!!!
The one on Swarthmore only accepts bulk. Will they open it up to the public?
If you don’t like it then ’email’ the post master…..
What’s gonna be with someone that has a postbox there?
the building is really nice
the service is HORRIBLE
this is a classic example of government workers doing a government job
zero regard for the customers
ask anyone in lakewood where they mailed their bar mitzvah or chassunah invitations from
thats right howell or brick
sorry to see such a charming building get ripped down
but this was one nasty post office
how About useing email
Good thing it is a federal run building so it doesn’t pay tax’s to the town. We all know that after it is sold it won’t be on the tax map either.
Wait till it becomes another school, where you going to put the school buses???? The town could vacate Clifton Ave, they have vacated other streets for the same reason. I know just tell he planning board that everyone will walk to school.
Hopefully they will transfer the staff to Swarthmore, and get rid of (moderated). The Swarthmore location has the potential to be a great Post office.
to 32 .. the only street vacated is 7th st for the Public School
Hey #33
Vine Ave at Spruce St was vacated for a swimming pool, get your facts straight!
#20 and to 18 Did it work back then should we bring it back? will it create jobs? or is it still around.
please get the postmaster’s e-mail address for us so that everyone can protest this move
we only use the Post Office in Brick…they are nice and friendly..(yes you do have to wait a little sometimes but then again thats every post office!)
Sorry to see it go. The town was in need of a larger facility with more parking. A second satellite site up in the north end would serve the town well IMO
it’s about time. the service was horrible- the inside was as old as the public schools and all were never up-graded. The schools will go next.
#24—ther is no baby carriages
great place for the lakewood museum
#43 sounds like a great idea unfortunately we know that’s not gonna happen it will be purchased by “investors” and tore down. More History erased from Lakewood to make room for yet another school.
To #9 ROFL
There’s no way they’re going to put a school there. No schools have opened in the center of town for a long time now. It would just be nice if whatever replaces it will keep the building intact, at least outside. Who wants a town with no beautiful, old buildings and only new cheap, ugly construction?
For the record, I always received good service with a smile, when I reached the counter. Of course that was usually after a half hour wait. And before blaming the workers there keep in mind that they often dealt with people who only spoke spanish or yiddish(I’ve seen it several times) as well as all the people who couldn’t be bothered to come prepared with the appropriate forms and documents filled out. And on the wall of shame is also those who when they reached the counter didn’t have the decency to hang up their cell phones. So we all have to take a little blame here.
I “COPY” that,
For the record, I always received good service with a smile, when I reached the counter. Of course that was usually after a half hour wait. And before blaming the workers there keep in mind that they often dealt with people who only spoke spanish or yiddish(I’ve seen it several times) as well as all the people who couldn’t be bothered to come prepared with the appropriate forms and documents filled out. And on the wall of shame is also those who when they reached the counter didn’t have the decency to hang up their cell phones. So we all have to take a little blame here.
TO #43 WOW THAT’S A GREAT IDEA, THE HERTITAGE MUSEUM IS LOOKING FOR A PLACE WHY NOT.
great place for latino music store
Actualy just today I was driving down clifton and needed to mail something certified I didn’t even think about going to this p.o. I went to brick and was done sooner than had I went to lakewood even though I was right on the corner.
Please do not take to heart all the horrible things that are being said about you.
If there are not enough people behind the counters, then it is a scheduling issue, so blame management.
Anytime I have had service by anyone at this office, they have been quick, prompt and friendly.
The delays are due to people who either speak only spanish, or only yiddish.
The delays are due to people who come to the counter with no forms filled out.
The delays are due to people who are talking on their cell phones while you are trying to process their order.
YOU all do a great job and I hope your jobs are safe.
Be well.
I don’t use that post office anymore for all the reasons people have mentioned.
I remember as a child my mother would take me there. It was a big treat to go to the post office. When we would leave, she would let me walk on that concrete wall on the left side of the stairs. Once I got to the end, she would lift me in her arms off that wall. I can still see the smile on my mother’s face while she was doing that 45 years latter
#9, uh no thanks, we have problems of our own, service and lines aren’t any better here and they don’t open as early as Lakewood, and no there aren’t going to change just to satisfy the people of Lakewood, maybe travel to Toms River
Oh please, enough with the antisemitisem! Who in Lakewood ‘only speaks yiddish’?
hope the building can be used for something more useful , who even mails anything anymore ? accept maybe arround the holidays
only went there once and it was a disaster waiting in line Brick much better the very few times needed to mail something . No waiting in line if you pay bills online and no cost of a stamp and no issue of it getting lost or being late!
so sad to have to see it go. i’ve lived in this town all my life i’ve always known this branch to be in good business. it’s sad to see it come to this. at least our family can still get stamps at shoprite which isn’t too far away.
Should become a shul with a simcha hall especially for Shabbos, so people from both sides of the lake can walk.
Btw staples sells stamps
and costco
How”s santa gonna manage. Without hearing his santa music the whole year ??
Service was slow due to not having enough clerks AND the fact it’s a govm’t job. I also had to wait in line at FedEx. Understaffed means understaffed. Don’t blame the workers who are just trying to do their job and forced to follow idiotic govm’t rules.
hey you can get stamps from my ATM at TD Bank, too.
Agree, I love the bldg, but avoid using it due to the long lines.
Why would they shut it? as someone mentioned, many of the local people using it dont have cars and would have a hard time getting to another location.
Hope they dont knock it down. My kids were extremely upset when they knocked down the old castle on forest. They claimed it was a historic bldg cuz the king of Lakewood used to live there….
Does anyone know what will happen with the PO boxes will the numbers stay the same at the new location?
#49——-MAYBE THE FED GOVT. WILL DONATE TO THE GROUP
the few times i went there and not to the costumer freindly brick post office the wait was about an hour each time as if you are in a hud or wic office and you are getting who knows what, it was really outrages i am happy to see it go
Privatize it!!!!!
Then there will service
I get my mail at the same PO BOX # for 20 yr ,WOW this is not good
Lakewood i moving to tent city.
I’m dreaming of a new postoffice, with songs playing gently in the air. I hear that the Postmaster is coming to town.–by sleigh.
let them move
Why don’t u post my comment about BMG????????
Let’s sell it to a bank
GC should buy it for dorms