Post Office

Beginning Monday, the post office on Route 202 in Winthrop will reduce its hours and a familiar face will be stepping away from the counter. David Shepherd has spent 35 years working for the U.S. Postal Service, the last 12 serving as the postmaster for the office in East Winthrop. …

Small post offices to cut hoursWMTW PortlandRural post offices in Maine are going through a transition. In 2012, the Postal Service released what it called the “Post Plan,” which will cut windows at rural post offices as an alternative to closing them. Starting next week, more than 200 post… More: …

The United States Postal Service announced on Tuesday it is looking to hire 170 seasonal positions in Cleveland. More: continued here

NBC Connecticut Stevenson Post Office to CloseNBC ConnecticutThe Stevenson Post Office at 281 Cottage Street will be closing at the end of the day because the lease is expiring and the U.S. Postal Service is looking for a new location. A mobile post office will be set up in the …

The Caledonia Argus (subscription) Mural in Caledonia post office among a treasured few nationwideThe Caledonia Argus (subscription)So too is the WPA mural in the Caledonia post office. Painted by Edmund D. Lewandowski and titled, “Hog Raising,” the treasure at the Caledonia post office has graced the walls since 1942. Campbell …

Diana Garbutt, 40, pictured, was bludgeoned to death by her husband Robin, 49, as she slept above the shop and post office they owned in Melsonby, North Yorkshire, in March 2010. More: continued here

The overdraft on the strike-hit SA Post Office’s current account has jumped by R90m since June, says Telecommunications and Postal Services minister Siyabonga Cwele. More: continued here

Westville will be purchasing the building that houses their post office for $30,000. More: continued here

Don't Shut the Post Office, Expand Their ServicesWHAV NewsYet, the Postal Board of Governors, which includes corporate interests that would profit by killing the public service, seems intent on – guess what? – killing it. The board's only “idea” is to cut services and shut down hundreds of local post …

Ed Goldman: Strapped for cash, the U.S. Post Office takes on part-time jobSacramento Business Journal (blog)The news comes less than two months after I wrote that the post office was already working as a subcontractor, delivering an average of 2.2 million packages a day for Fed-Ex (about 30 percent of …