A farmers market at Lawson State Community College is now allowing customers to use food stamps to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables. More: continued here

Rural Pennsylvania community relieved its post office won't closePittsburgh Post GazettePriscilla Byzon, the officer in charge of the Coulters Post Office, hands mail to town resident Ken Logston today. Priscilla Byzon is the Coulters Post Office's only full-time employee. The branch would see its hours reduced from eight hours a …

Rural Post Offices won't shut down but cut backcbs4qc.comMore than 75 rural post offices in the Quad City area were expected to close their doors until now. "It's going to make them really happy that they don't have to go anywhere for their mailing," said Judy Bowlyou, Pleasant Valley Post …

The quaint rural post office, an iconic image all but synonymous with Americana, apparently will not suffer the fate of the full-service gas station. More: continued here

LESTER, Ala. (AP) — A local business is stepping in after the U.S. Postal Service closed the town branch. The Barn Feed and Seed in Lester will be the location of Alabama's first Village Post Office. The service considers village post offices in locations where communities have no existing post …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service announced a new strategy today that could keep the nation's smallest Post Offices open for business, while providing a framework to achieve significant cost savings as part of the plan to return the organization to financial stability. The plan would keep the existing Post …

Food bank chief: House's food stamps cuts 'would be devastating'Florida Times-Union (blog)The head of the Second Harvest North Florida food bank issued a statement today saying he is "outaged" by today's House vote to cut the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, by a "drastic" $36 billion. …

The head of the Second Harvest North Florida food bank issued a statement today saying he is "outaged" by today's House vote to cut the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, by a "drastic" $36 billion. The cuts, if they become effective, "would be devastating for our …

Daily Mail Inseperable: Paris Hilton on her mobile phoneDaily MailI'm keeping the Royal Mail going all on my own. I say 'luckily', above, because the rest of you are going mad. I know this because Professor Larry Rosen, Chair of Psychology at California State University, says so in his fascinating …

The Mohawk Post Office, at 25 Columbia St., will see reduced hours as part of massive cuts within the United States Post Office. More: continued here