When the postal service announced plans to sell Berkeley's 1914 main post office, decorated in New Deal-era art, the town rose up. BERKELEY, Calif. — Plenty of communities have resisted the U.S. Postal Service's sweeping real estate sell-off, battling to keep open historic buildings that speak of bygone civic grandeur and to guarantee old-fashioned mail service for the public.
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Changes are coming to area post offices. As some residents are learning, not all of them are bad. The United States Postal Service is holding meetings in many rural areas to reveal the results of a survey of post office customers, especially those who receive their mail at a post office box. More: continued here
Senate Votes To Slow Closing Of Post OfficesKKTV 11 NewsWe will review any reported comments promptly. by Al Location: Divide on Apr 25, 2012 at 06:13 PM In 2006 the outgoing congress forced the Post Office into depositing 75 years worth of funding for health care and retirement for it's employees into the …and more »…
Letter: No toilet paper at Crystal Lake post office?Northwest HeraldSo the Crystal Lake post office has stopped supplying its employees with toilet paper, hand soap and paper towels in their washrooms. What a perfectly efficient means to spread E. coli, salmonella, shigella and cryptosporidium, to name a few bacteria, … More: continued here
Rapid City Journal At the post office in Belle Fourche, they put on a sort-of-retirement party …Rapid City JournalDarrell Stoke, Dakotas District Manager for the U.S. Postal Service, right, helps prop up the sort-of-retirement cake for 67-year Redig Postmaster Edgar Kumley. Why only "sort of" retirement? Hours cuts at the post office took it below…
Holiday Lines Grow Long At Post OfficeKMBC.comIf you're trying to mail those last-minute holiday packages and letters and the lines at the post office seem longer than ever, you're not imagining it. …and more » More: continued here
USPS Warns Protesters Camping At Historic Berkeley Post Office To Move OutCBS LocalBERKELEY (CBS SF) — A group of people camping out around Berkeley's historic post office in protest of plans to close it have been warned to move off U.S. Postal Service property, officials said Friday. A group of postal inspectors and postal police…