{"id":1181,"date":"2009-04-16T11:32:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/16\/herrera-threatens-discrimination-lawsuit-against-us-postal-service\/"},"modified":"2017-05-28T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:23:58","slug":"herrera-threatens-discrimination-lawsuit-against-us-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1181\/herrera-threatens-discrimination-lawsuit-against-us-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Herrera Threatens Discrimination Lawsuit <br>Against US Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2008\/prop8_supreme_ct_081119\/_w2w5119_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nSan Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera.<br \/>\n<strong>Photo by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 16, 2009<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera today sent a formal letter of demand to the U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s office outlining his intent to file suit against the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) &ldquo;for unconstitutionally depriving tenants of single room occupancy hotels, equal and adequate mail delivery in San Francisco.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a five-page letter addressed to U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s Office Civil Division Deputy Chief Andrew Y.S. Cheng, Herrera&rsquo;s said, &ldquo;The City of San Francisco strongly objects to the United States Postal Service&#8217;s decision to deny tenants of single room occupancy residences an equal and adequate method of mail delivery.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Postmaster Noemi Luna informed the City in December that due to &ldquo;fiscal shortages,&rdquo; the USPS would no longer deliver mail to individual SRO tenants&rsquo; mailbox receptacles, in direct contravention of USPS regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Under the Postal Service&#8217;s own regulations,&#8221; Herrera said, &ldquo;SROs are apartment buildings, and they are entitled to the same method of mail delivery&mdash;to individual locked boxes&mdash;that is afforded to all other tenants in all other apartment buildings.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Following a three-month investigation into the impacts of Luna&rsquo;s policy change, Herrera said SRO-addressed mail is being delivered in bags and left near entryways or on unattended desks, &ldquo;with no concern for the obvious danger that the mail will be stolen or misdelivered or otherwise &lsquo;disappear.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Herrera said the amended USPS policy &ldquo;unfairly discriminates against the City&#8217;s lowest income tenants by denying them services provided to all other apartment dwellers,&rdquo; and violates SRO tenants&#8217; First Amendment right to receive mail.<\/p>\n<p>Herrera said unless the USPS reinstates SRO mail delivery to individual locked-boxes, he will file suit in federal court on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mail service is not a privilege for the wealthy,&rdquo; Herrera stated, &ldquo;and the San Francisco Postmaster&#8217;s decision to cut costs by treating SRO tenants differently than other City residents is unfair and cruel.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Info<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/29\/post-office-to-the-poor-no-mail-for-you\/\">Post Office to the Poor: No Mail for You?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Office of City Attorney Dennis Herrera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera. 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