Hoping third post office meeting is the charm

A few local people met with Rep. Illeana Ros-Lehtinen yesterday morning, in her office, about the Coconut Grove Post Office.

Six officials from the US Postal Service were present and discussed various topics like the difference between Florida post offices and how each is run and maintained. Local village reps included Comm. Marc Sarnoff, his chief of staff Ron Nelson and activist Harry Emilio Gottlieb.

The main issue is the parking lot and the mitigation of new trees, which were promised at the first of three meetings with Ros-Lehtinen. The post office officials promised they would add trees, although they did claim to be having financial problems. There is a large turnover apparently at the post office, so these officials were another set of officials and each meeting seems to bring out a new crop of confused officials who have no idea what their predecessors did or said.All illegal signs and banners will be removed, too.