Govt to axe PO service

Post office campaigners face nail-biting waitYork Press, UK –35 minutes agoBy Press reporter ANXIOUS residents and sub postmasters will have to wait until next month to find out whether their post office has been saved. … More: continued here

11-year-old charged with trashing Upper Bucks post officeAllentown Morning CallSomeone had been vandalizing the tiny Milford Township village's storefront post–office over several days last week. A bulletin board at the Allentown Road location was broken, trash was strewn about the lobby and several signs were destroyed. The … More: continued here

BBC News New Post Office minister is former opponent of privatisationTimes OnlineThe minister appointed to oversee the Post Office is a former opponent of privatisation in the latest a sign that the Government is cooling on reform. …Mail privatisation 'to go ahead'BBC Newsall 10 news articles » More: continued here

People in the small northeastern Iowa town of Arlington are unhappy that their post office has closed because the Postal Service can’t agree to a lease with the property owner. More: continued here

Rendell orders 50 layoffs of state workersPittsburgh Post GazetteGov. Ed Rendell's office this afternoon announced that the state will lay off 50 employees early next month to adjust …and more » More: continued here

Frenemies: UPS, FedEx & the Post OfficeYahoo NewsAt UPS, for example, if you use their “Sure Post” service, packages will be delivered via UPS to your local post office, and then the mailman will take it the rest of the way. It's a service the Postal Service calls “Parcel Select.” FedEx does this as ……