Rolling Meadows postal branch closing May 26Chicago Daily HeraldThis emergency suspension is outside the long debated option of closing up to 252 mail processing centers and 3700 post offices across the nation to save the US Postal Service approximately $6.5 billion per year. On Wednesday, the Senate passed a bill …
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Telegraph.co.uk Fugitive wanted in Italy over policeman's murder arrested across from London's …Washington PostPolice said that the 49-year-old Gianfranco Techegne was waiting in line at the Broadway Post Office Tuesday when he was arrested by detectives from Scotland Yard's extradition unit — based in a building about 30 feet (10 …
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