Village post office opens on Leestown Road

It’s good news for rural post office customers. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced last Wednesday a new strategy so that they could keep the nation’s smallest post offices open for business by cutting hours on about a third of post offices nationwide. More: continued here

Cornwall Live Post Office to cut more than 420 jobsThe GuardianThe Post Office is to close and franchise a further 37 of its flagship crown offices, with the loss of 300 staff, and cut 127 financial specialist roles, workers have been told. The Communication Workers Union said that, on top of the 62 branches …Announcement…

A basket of cucumbers was on the counter Monday of the U.S. post office in Clare, and everyone was welcome to take a few home. In Esmond, a local news bulletin board in the post office shares information on a nearby food pantry. More: continued here

Employees at the South Mills post office have used outdoor Porta-Johns for the past year — in both “stifling heat” and freezing temperatures, one customer asserts — because Postal Service officials thus far have been unable to get the landlord to fix the building’s indoor toilets. More: continued here

Bomb Squad Detonates Pipe Bomb Found In WelchWCCOA Welch Post Office worker delivering mail noticed some boys gathered around the device. He took the device in order to keep the boys from danger, …Postal Worker Picks up Suspected Pipe BombCBS NewsMail carrier finds suspected pipe bombRepublican Eagleall 4 news articles » More: continued here

A court has heard how a gun was held to a customer's back during the robbery of a post office in Longford. More: continued here