By Tom Blodgett
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The land upon which the Higley Post Office sits has been sold. 

The 1.7 acres of land at 3324 E. Ray Road, Gilbert, upon which the post office and its parking lot sit, was sold Oct. 26 by the James E. Holmes Revocable Trust to Western Postal Realty Holdings for $1.73 million, according to commercial real estate site vizzda.com. 

Western Postal Realty Holdings is a real estate investment trust focused on investing in properties leased by the U.S. Postal Service. 

The Higley Post Office formerly served the unincorporated community of Higley, which had a ZIP code of 85236. Higley mostly annexed into Gilbert in 2006, and other portions have become part of Queen Creek and Mesa. 

The USPS did away with the 85236 ZIP code for physical addresses in 2007, but postal office boxes at the Higley Post Office still carry that ZIP code. The area otherwise is in 85296. 

Tom Blodgett
Senior News Editor | Gilbert
@sp_blodgett

tblodgett@iniusa.org

Meet Tom
Tom Blodgett joined Independent Newsmedia, Inc., USA, in 2022, when the company acquired Community Impact Newspaper's Phoenix-area properties. Raised in Arizona, he has spent more than 35 years in journalism in the state.

Community: He has served as an instructional professional in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication since 2005, and is editorial adviser to The State Press, the university's independent student media outlet. He also is director of operations for an 18U girls fastpitch softball team from Gilbert.

Education: Arizona State University with a BS in Journalism. 

Random Fact: He lived in Belgium during his freshman year of high school.  

Hobbies: Tweeting enthusiastically about ASU softball (season-ticket holder) and grumpily about other local sports (pessimistic fan).