Standard Speaker Rural post offices cut staff, hours but stay openChicago TribuneThe United States Postal Service, which expects to lose more than $14 billion this year without changes, plans to reduce the hours of more than 13000 rural post offices, including 48 in the Chattanooga area. The plan is expected …

The Postal Service announced Thursday that it lost more than $3 billion during the first three months of the year. Post office officials are pushing Congress to give it more authority to cut some of its burgeoning costs. More: continued here

Albert's got his postal service in the bagThis is North DevonArthritis sufferer Albert, 87, was distraught when Royal Mail removed the box in Twitchen, near South Molton in Devon, because it was fixed to a rotten post. But he has persuaded the postwoman to collect his letters from a shopping …

The Greenbush post office will continue to operate but with severely reduced hours under a plan to help the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service keep operating. More: continued here

Auctionbytes eBay Admits Error in Bungled Phishing ReportAuctionbytesBy Ina Steiner eBay tried to shut down a post on the EcommerceBytes Blog on Thursday after mistakenly identifying the page as part of a phishing scam. Ironically the page had been publicly available for 40 days before eBay reported it. More: continued …

Reduced post office hours preferred over closureBlueRidgeNow.comGERTON — Residents are concerned about a plan to reduce the operating hours of several small post offices in the area, but they say it's better than closing them altogether. The US Postal Service presented a plan Wednesday to keep smaller rural post … …

An ecnomizing effort unviled Wednesday will trim the hours at the Terra Ceia post office, but did not speak to whether a mail processing facility at Tallevast would close or not. More: continued here

The U.S. Post Office in downtown Fairfield at 1262 Post Road is being sold for $4.3 million to a local investment group. Photo: Contributed Photo / Fairfield Citizen contributed More: continued here

Coulters Post Office gets a new lease on lifePittsburgh Post GazetteOfficer in Charge Priscilla Byzon works Thursday at the Coulters Post Office, which probably will see its hours reduced dramatically under the new operations plan put forth by the US Postal Service. Priscilla Byzon hands mail on Thursday to Coulters …

Coulters Post Office will not close its doorsPittsburgh Post GazetteOfficer in Charge Priscilla Byzon works Thursday at the Coulters Post Office, which probably will see its hours reduced dramatically under the new operations plan put forth by the US Postal Service. Priscilla Byzon hands mail on Thursday to Coulters … …