The main Post Office on Meridian Park Blvd. in Concord is homeless proofing their 24 hour lobby. The lobby, which is open 24 hours so people can mail letters and check their post office boxes, has recently been used for sleeping. People have been sleeping under the desks/tables, and as you can tell, plywood has been screwed to the desks so nobody can sleep underneath.
Thanks to “Sun Terrace Ken” for the photos and information.
Democrat policies are to blame!
Exactly. Bad economic policy has been endemic even by Republican administrations. Particularly the 2008 back bailout where bad banks should have let fail instead of bailed out. People savings, 401Ks, etc suffered on what appeared to have been an attempt to make us impoverished so the super rich could rule over us in an authoritarian police state.
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Some here will blame drugs but stats show only around 20% of the homeless have drug addiction problems. And the authorities are still at it being egg flu, a small measles outbreak and the continuing irrational inflation.
What stats? I have never met a sober homeless person. The Dems have thrown Billions of dollars at our homeless. It’s not working. And a big chunk of funds is missing.
Please! ‘unsheltered neighbor’. People blame drugs, high cost of things but I say it’s too easy to live comfortably on the streets and some people want to live there.
curious.. is this sarcasm? I do not believe 95% of the people that are homeless intended to be there. I believe (my opinion only) that the majority of them never intended to be in the situation they are in but once there it becomes a lifestyle. “life bloodies you up” a lot of people cannot recover from this and then things like drugs and other things come into play. Unfortunately once on the path it is very hard (almost impossible) to change.
Once we saw a man sleeping on top of the table! So they have to do a little more ‘proofing’.
Minor inconvenience, Homeless know how to use a screwdriver.
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Was thoughtful of Postal Service to provide a front door for privacy.
Use of plumbers tape, Mrs. Goldberg must be so proud of her boy.
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Second picture, left side top plumbers tape appears to have
a sharp edge sticking out about eye level for a child.
It’s been that way for months …it’s been a problem for a few years
How many Billions of our tax dollars has California spent on the Homeless Crisis now and we’re still at this stage?!!
Another great job by governor grease-ball and his cronies in Sac.
“If you want to understand any problem in America,
you need to look at who profits from that problem,
not at who suffers from that problem.”
–Dr. Amos Wilson
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CA has a thriving homelessness industry complex.
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Believe there is not a problem in CA,
that democrats couldn’t throw taxpayer dollars at.
Dobermans work pretty good.
Fire ants too.
Better would be actual homes.
Dobermans and fire ants are easier to get though.
Same thing was happening at the post office in Pleasant Hill some years ago. The lobby was trashed with trash cans tipped over and stuff strewn all over the floor. This is why the lobby doors are chain locked when the post office isn’t open.
The plywood looks like it was improperly stored and now the post office will get sued for the mold contamination and resulting health issues among the staff and homeless.
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Most of the local post offices lock the building at night. Is there something special about Concord that leads them to being required to leaving the doors unlocked?
WC Resident,
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It’s been my experience that the USPS locations lock their “retail” sections and leave their “PO Box” section open 24 -hours so that customers can access their PO Boxes.
Pleasant Hill has been locking their front door which blocks access to the PO boxes. For a while Orinda was also locking their front door.
The Concord main post office would be better off locking the lobby up at night just like the Pleasant Hill Post office was forced to do. On special tax nights the Concord main facility could stay open late. We would all survive.
Besides the homeless are not only sleeping in there but some of them will make a sick mess which needs to be cleaned up in the morning by the staff