New Hyde Park Residents May Be Eligible for Food StampsPatch.comAn informational session was held on Monday about how food stamps can help low-income families. By Vanessa Canner Bianca Nunez, coordinator for the Nutrition Outreach and Education Program for the Health and welfare Council of Long Island. …Food Stamp Usage Is …

Residents Plead To Keep 'Iconic' Post Office OpenLeesburg TodayThe message at the public meeting on the potential closure of downtown Leesburg's longtime post office was clear: Do not close it. More than a dozen people spoke out against shuttering the Market Street location, which is one of 3700 …Residents, Business …

Peewee, bantam Stamps win COMFL titlesInsideHalton.comThe atom, peewee and bantam Stamps took two of three Central Ontario Minor Football League championship games last weekend in North York to wrap up their COMFL seasons with a stunning 48-2 overall mark. Only a dominant Niagara Generals atom team … More: continued here

Community speaks out about possible downtown post office closureLoudoun Times-Mirror9 appeared to be another stump for votes when many elected candidates and officials came to speak out on the possible closure of the Downtown Leesburg Post Office. Randy Minchew who was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in the …

The Construction Index Wates makes progress for Royal MailThe Construction IndexContractor Wates reports that it is on schedule with its involvement with the Royal Mail's£71m modernisation programme in Yorkshire and the northeast. The redevelopment of Leeds Mail Centre in Stourton is 20 weeks into the 45-week build programme. … More: …

STAMPS are big business in Mount Isa. More: continued here

Crawford says NEA post offices unfairly targetedParagould Daily PressBy George Jared JONESBORO — First District Congressman Rick Crawford says rural post offices in Northeast Arkansas are being unfairly targeted to be closed, and he's introduced a bill to save at least some of them. Crawford also believes a portion of …

USA Today Mummy returns home to BaltimoreUSA TodayThe mummy was confiscated about five years ago after a woman tried to sell it on eBay. Mark R Rummel, AP The box of containing the mummified body of a child is opened on Nov. 9 at the Port Huron Police Department's property …

55380 is going out of business. As of Nov. 19, that ZIP code, which serves the 19 or so people who rent post office boxes at the U.S. Post Office in Silver Creek Township, will no longer be at a deliverable address. More: continued here

Sunderland Echo Sunderland call centres ready for footy challengeSunderland EchoIan Lanaghan (left) of EDF, Doxford Park and David Dodds of neighbours Royal Mail who have organised a charity football match between the firms in aid of Macmillan. CALL centre workers are going head to head in a charity football match. …