CHATTANOOGA, TN (WRCB) -A Chattanooga post office is preparing to shut down. But the building’s landlord said she’s parting ways with the United States Postal Service on bad terms.
Green said the USPS had always signed five year deals to work in her building but said she understood that under financial constraints, a one-year lease with the USPS is more reasonable. So, she said, they agreed to write up a one-year lease extension.
“It was back and forth as many real estate negotiations are. We made an offer, they made a counter offer, we accepted and we thought we were done,” Green said.
Two weeks ago, she said she had the lease agreement on her desk: a new term beginning 9/1/2013 and ending 8/31/2014 at an annual rent of $50,600. Green said that’s $3,700 less than last year’s rent.
Green said she signed the lease and sent it off to USPS seven days ago but that a signature from USPS officials to honor the lease never showed up. USPS wouldn’t comment on specifics to the contract.
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The old bait and switch is now being used to justify their intentions to close the office. They had no intentions of signing a new lease even for one month as they were planning to close this office from jump street. Not having a building to work out of would mean automatic excessing for the employees and likely more than the fifty mile limit. Low life management teams are designing the Post Office for failure in order to privatize, but what lower level management does not realize is when the system is in private hands, profit will be the number one intent, and there will be not need for clueless managers/supervisors.
wonder why my earlier post was deleted??
Probably a dump not worth $5 per year.