Brook Road post office will be open until 8 p.m. today

President Franklin Pierce approves telegraph office, June 27, 1853PoliticoMontgomery Meigs, the new supervising engineer, called for the telegraph office to be near the House post office, around the corner from a new press gallery. The new wing was also designed to offer the latest modern conveniences to the Capitol's …and more » More: continued here

Yesteryears: Christmas 1911 at the post officeThe Daily ProgressThe Charlottesville post office was a hive of activity in the days prior to Christmas 1911. The volume of packages had increased to such a staggering level that an additional wagon had to be pressed into service to facilitate delivery. … More: continued here

CBS Local CBS2 Demanding Answers: Why Are Lines So Long At Bushwick Post Office?CBS LocalNEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Customers wait for hours every day at the Flatbush Station post office in Brooklyn, and some call it the worst post office in all of New York City. As CBS2's Ali Bauman reported, customers Monday were demanding…

The most recent talk about the long-in-the-works Moynihan Station, an expansion of Penn Station into the James A. Farley Post Office building, focused on a possible air rights sale, but a new story in the Times points out that… More: continued here

Bradenton Herald Tenn. man indicted in fatal post office shootingBradenton HeraldChastain Montgomery Sr., a Tennessee prison guard, was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of killing a government employee in the Oct. 18 shootings inside Henning's small red brick post office. The indictment says the 47-year-old Montgomery killed …Corrections officer indicted in Tenn….

Residents in a small Brevard beach community are rallying around their local post office, which is in danger of getting stamped out of existence. More: continued here