Freight Transportation

Historic Berkeley Post Office Still Not Officially Up for Sale, But Slowly Getting There

Days may be numbered for the ornate, 99-year-old downtown Berkeley post office. In June, the United States Postal Service announced that the government planned to sell the Allston Way building, as part of its national budget-cutting strategy. More than 200 "consolidations" are scheduled over the nex ... More >>

Ben Gibbard Brings Out the Hits at Palace of Fine Arts, 11/13/12

Ben Gibbard Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 Palace of Fine Arts Better than: Listening to Death Cab records after 1 a.m. as a college kid. It's hard to determine what the Palace of Fine Arts feels most like: late evening at a coffee shop, an MTV Unplugged performance, or some symphonic concert hall (okay, ... More >>

Your Kids Should Probably Be More Afraid of Dog Bites Than Gay People

Earlier today, we told you about Save California, that right-wing and totally off-base group in Sacramento that's spending a ton of time and money pleading with parents to keep their kids locked inside on Harvey Milk Day -- May 22.But you know what your children should probably be more afraid of tha ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Bike Messengers Are Victims of Civil Court Closures

The final showdown for bike messengers?​As of October 3, 25 civil courtrooms will be closed indefinitely, and all the clerks will have their office hours cut by an hour a day. Two hundred court employees will be getting pink slips.But the compassionate hipster inside of us wants to know: What does ... More >>

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Lance Armstrong Hires Famous S.F. Attorney, New USPS Sponsorship Details Emerge

It's all about who owned what and when.​Lance Armstrong has added two more San Francisco attorneys to his defense team to help ward off possible charges that he was doping while cycling the Tour de France. Additionally, SF Weekly has more details on the 1996-2004 U.S. Postal Service cycling t ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Doping Story Points Toward S.F. Company

It's about the EPO.​CBS' 60 Minutes shook the sporting world Sunday with extraordinary doping accusations involving the seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. According to Armstrong's former teammate Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong dosed his own teammates post-race with droppers-full of st ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Case Takes BALCO Investigator Jeff Novitzky To France

Look what you've done!! I'm melting, melting. ​Jeff Novitzky, the USDA investigator famed for pursuing Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroids case, was in Lyon, France this week chasing evidence that cycling star Lance Armstrong doped in violation of multimillion dollar sponsorship agreements with the ... More >>

Toro Y Moi: Show Preview

Art Review: Eileen David: "Recent Paintings"

Floyd Landis doping scandal: The S.F. connection

Your E-Filed Taxes Saved IRS $195M (and Counting). But Post Office Not Thrilled.

​Yesterday we reported that nearly eight of every 10 tax forms received by the IRS by early April was sent electronically. This put members of the United States Postal Service in the position of another blue-uniformed figure with little to do: The Maytag repairman. With the late-evening Tax Night ... More >>

Warning, Procrastinator: Almost No Post Offices Open Until Midnight on Tax Day

He can't save you now, tax procrastinator...​IRS statistics reveal 80 percent of returns have been e-filed this year. In the good old days, folks who'd left their taxes until on or about April 15 could count on hordes of postal workers swarming the streets to grab the tax forms out of their hands ... More >>

There She Blows

For its 35th anniversary, Camerawork goes postal

Did You Get Stuck With Illegal Taxes When You Bought Your Unabomber Postage Stamps?

The Smoking GunA few years ago, The Smoking Gun discovered that you could take advantage of custom stamp services and mail your letters affixed with postage depicting the young Unabomber or tyrannical dictators. Now a class action suit in San Francisco district court ponders something more -- are yo ... More >>

Red-Letter Day: City Attorney Follows Through on Threat to Sue Post Office

You're sued, palIn an extremely fitting move, City Attorney Dennis Herrera last month sent a letter to the local U.S. Attorney's office -- informing them of his threat to sue the post office. His follow-through today came not via post but the more traditional venue of a press conference. Herrera tod ... More >>

Special Delivery: City Attorney Says He'll Sue U.S. Postal Service for Stiffing SRO Tenants

Oh, you're getting sued!You don't have to be an FBI profiler to figure out that dumping piles of mail on the floor in the city's SRO hotels -- where many people are receiving assistance checks via the mail -- is nearly tantamount to the postman shouting "Hey, steal this!" as he leaves the building. ... More >>

Will Proposed S.F. Anti-Junk Mail Measure Be Death Knell of Post Office? Environmental Group Says USPS Is Already Dead.

Your powers are weak, old manAs anticipated, San Francisco's City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee yesterday approved of a proposed "Do Not Mail" registry that would, in theory, spare city dwellers from the acres of junk mail that clog our post boxes yearly. And, when you look at the ... More >>

Economic Magic: USPS Makes Tenderloin's 'Full-Service Post Office' Disappear

Eh, it's a little-known fact that if you lost as much money as the Post Office loses in a day, the coins would fill all the couches in America -- that ever existed. It's true, Normy.Is it possible to miss something you never had? That's a question Elaine Zamora is pondering right about now. Not quit ... More >>

Things in S.F. Turning America Gay

Was it Gavin? Sourdough bread? We round up the suspects.

Neither rain nor snow, nor heavy campaign mail sidelines mail carrier

Postal employees not happy about working in the Tenderloin

Damn, That Move Was Expensive: Douchebag movers busted

"Vicious" six-pound dog scares the shit out of mailman in the Sunset

R2D2 -- It IS You!

Pieces of the Action

What's worse? A venture capitalist or a guy who smokes crack with underage hookers?

Cold as Ice

NHL 2K7 looks pretty, but fails to light the lamp.

Ask a Track Bike

Legal Complications on Steroids

If Lance Armstrong were found to have been on drugs, and his S.F. handlers knew it, sponsors could demand their money back, and perhaps change sports in the U.S. forever

Best Surf Break

V/A

World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing

Best Late-Night Snack

San Francisco P+DC

Lesson Learned

Beaten in the mayor's election, S.F. lefties vow to sign up absentee voters for future campaigns

Special Delivery

The Postal Service offers up the first rocktronic masterpiece

Letters to the Editor

Week of February 19, 2003

Letters to the Editor

Week of February 5, 2003

Bent Outta Shape

San Francisco bike messengers hit some nasty economic potholes as they struggle to unionize

Sticky Situations

We went to the largest stamp collectors' convention in California. And found something to write about.

Dog Bites

What's $100 Million When You're Homeless?; We Feel Safer Already

Best Destination for Swingers

Huntington Park

An Endowed Chair

Sen. John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped his presidential bid. Donations from special interests haven't hurt, either.

Strike While the Iron Is Hot

Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

Is This Any Way to Run A Railroad?

Union Pacific's tenacious fight to gut safety laws passed when a derailment sterilized 40 miles of the upper Sacramento River

Letters

Mail-Order Bandits

Armed robbers collect stamps -- and cash -- at city post offices

Hundreds of suckers have paid this man $195 for the right to drive this Lamborghini for an hour. But that doesn't necessarily mean they'll ever drive it, because this man is the all-time, small-time ...

Dream Schemer

Unappointed Rounds

Sophisticated thieves using stolen keys rifle mail deliveries in search of -- your identity!