redirected to a post office<\/a> on North Vignes Street near Union Station, about two miles away. Closer is a post office at 5th and Spring streets, on the edge of Skid Row, about a mile from the old post office. <\/p>\n\u201cFor folks who don\u2019t have a car, bus service is anemic and scary,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cIf you\u2019re disabled, things are harder, all of life is harder.\u201d <\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Mayor Karen Bass did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
The Downtown Women\u2019s Center operates a day shelter that offers some mail services, including stamps and envelopes. But funding from the city and county was recently cut in half, said the center\u2019s chief executive, Amy Turk. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf this happened in Beverly Hills, you would have heard about it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a community that isn\u2019t heard the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his 10 years living on Skid Row, Gaines visited the post office at least twice a month, mailing money to his family in New Orleans to help care for his elderly mother. He got to know some of the employees, even as the hours were reduced.<\/p>\n
The closure felt personal to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt made me feel like they didn\u2019t care about the people that they serve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Lauren Mills, a spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove said the lawmaker was unaware that the post office, which was on the edge of her district, had been closed until informed by The Times last week.<\/p>\n
At that point, Mills said, Kamlager-Dove\u2019s office submitted inquiries to the Postal Service asking about the reason for the closure and what is being done to alleviate the burden on customers. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe … will continue working to ensure downtown businesses and residents have access to convenient and reliable postal services,\u201d Mills said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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Meghan Kessler, outside her tent on Skid Row, said she was disappointed that the post office had closed. \u201cIt\u2019s supposed to be a service to people,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
(Genaro Molina \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
Meghan Kessler, who has lived on Skid Row since September, said the old post office was convenient. <\/p>\n
When she mailed a notarized document overnight to her father, who lives out of state, she had to walk only a few blocks from her encampment on 7th Street.<\/p>\n
She said she was disappointed that the post office has closed. She doesn\u2019t have a car.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s supposed to be a service to people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Lopez walked from her office to the closed post office. <\/p>\n
On the way, her security team called an ambulance for a man passed out on the street and noted vulgar graffiti for their cleanup team to cover up. <\/p>\n
A metal gate blocked the entrance to the post office, and two encampments had sprung up. A man pulling a cart approached.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs the post office closed?\u201d he asked. <\/p>\n
Lopez\u2019s team gave him directions to the nearest open one. He thanked them and left quickly, saying he needed to start walking. <\/p>\n
\u201cEvery community should have a post office,\u201d he called out as he went on his way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skid Row\u2019s only post office has closed after what officials said were repeated break-ins and damage to employee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5252,8010,1409,7862,13033,153845,2903,21242,153846,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,153844,592,14247,36523,6645],"class_list":["post-380522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-7th-street","tag-center","tag-city","tag-closure","tag-damage","tag-employee-property","tag-encampment","tag-estela-lopez","tag-homeless-resident","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-only-post-office","tag-people","tag-postal-service","tag-same-way","tag-skid-row"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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