Weekly Poll: Post Office(s) in Dublin
For the past several years, the City of Dublin and the Dublin Chamber of Commerce have engaged the United States Postal Service (USPS) in a continuing dialogue on methods to improve customer service and address the parking situation at the Village Parkway station. One suggestion has been to build a much larger main facility on Scarlett Court (off of Dougherty Road).
As you can see below, Dublin has approximately 0.7 postal service windows per 10,000 residents. This is approximately a 1/3 of the service windows that Danville has with their two post office facilities.
The USPS has repeatedly expressed that they would prefer to look into ways of maximizing the efficiency of the existing post office, rather than constructing a new main post office with additional service windows. The City of Dublin has also looked into methods for mitigating the parking crunch near the Village Parkway station.
This week’s question is – Should the USPS Build a Larger Main Post Office in Dublin?
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9:20 AM on September 22nd, 2008
what about renovating/expanding the current one?
9:43 AM on September 22nd, 2008
Hi Joel – that’s a good thought. A challenge w/ the current post office facility site is that it’s surrounded by businesses to the north and south, the street to the west, and homes on the east. If an adjacent parcel opened up, then it could make sense to renovate/expand.
Thx, John Z.
12:52 PM on September 25th, 2008
why can’t Dublin have the larger facility on Scarlett Court AND keep the Village Parkway station?
2:09 PM on October 7th, 2008
Instead of 1 large one, maybe renovate the one on Village and build a second midsized one somewhere in the East to serve residents there and keep our City Green without requiring them to drive across town or to Pleasanton for a Post Office. Possibly in the light industrial zoned area of Fallon Village.
3:42 PM on October 14th, 2008
I like the idea of having two midsized one instead of one large. Cuts down on daily trips across town. Afterall Dublin is trying to tout itself as being Green. One Post Office and One High School and High Density Housing away from Transit, car convenient Strips malls spread throughout town doesn’t do it as far as Green is concerned.