{"id":10799,"date":"2015-04-30T08:26:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10799"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:26:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:26:10","slug":"apwu-president-comments-on-questionable-sales-of-usps-historic-post-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/04\/30\/apwu-president-comments-on-questionable-sales-of-usps-historic-post-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU President Comments On Questionable Sales of USPS Historic Post Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Statement by Mark Dimondstein on USPS Inspector General’s Report On Questionable Sales of Historic Post Offices by USPS’s Real Estate Firm, CBRE<\/h3>\n

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‘We need to protect the USPS from corporate pirates’<\/div>\n
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04\/29\/2015<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>–\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Washington\u00a0<\/span>–\u00a0<\/strong>The Inspector General\u2019s report on the Postal Service\u2019s real estate transactions with CBRE is a stinging indictment of the way the USPS has sold off post offices and other facilities. It is also a condemnation of the cozy relationship between postal management and the world\u2019s biggest real estate company. The USPS arrangement with CBRE allows the company to represent both the buyer and seller. \"2-APWU-Pres.-Dimondstein\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S. Postal Service belongs to the people of this country. We must not permit postal executives and the Board of Governors to sell our beautiful historic buildings at a discount; nor should we permit CBRE to drain the Postal Service treasury with lease deals that benefit the real estate firm at the expense of postal customers and the American people.<\/p>\n

The APWU endorses the IG\u2019s recommendation to terminate the Postal Service\u2019s contract with CBRE. The APWU also applauds the IG\u2019s decision to refer numerous CBRE transactions to its Office of Investigations for further review.<\/p>\n

Regrettably, CBRE is not the only private, for-profit company that is treating the U.S. Postal Service like a private piggy bank.\u00a0 The Inspector General also should examine the role of CBRE CEO Robert Sulentic on the Staples board of directors at a time when the Postal Service is reducing hours or shuttering post offices and encouraging customers to take their mail to Staples stores.<\/p>\n

This report shows we need to protect our great public Postal Service from corporate pirates.<\/p>\n

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Statement by Mark Dimondstein on USPS Inspector General’s Report On Questionable Sales of Historic Post Offices by USPS’s Real Estate Firm, CBRE ‘We need to protect the USPS from corporate pirates’ 04\/29\/2015\u00a0–\u00a0Washington\u00a0–\u00a0The Inspector General\u2019s report on the Postal Service\u2019s real estate transactions with CBRE is a stinging indictment of the way the USPS has sold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10800,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions\/10800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}