The Frank L. Lautenberg Post Office in Newark, NJ, which is to be sold. Image via Save the Post Office In 2011, the United States Postal Service (USPS) identified a list of 3,700 post offices that may need to be closed or sold to stave off a massive deficit. Many of the post offices are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and are prime examples of WPA-era Art Deco or Neo-Classical civic architecture. A lack of transparency from the USPS regarding these real estate measures has a created an unlikely coalition of angry constituents ranging from preservations, elected officials, residents and academics. The website, Save the Post Office documents the historic post offices in America that are up for sale and the plight of the postal service as a government agency. The site is run by Steve Hutkins, an NYU literature professor. His role documenting the post offices has become high-profile partially because… Read More