Post Office

Is a Post Office Bank the Answer To Payday Lending?Motley FoolThe solution, as some in the government see it, is to allow post offices to provide those banking services. Their branches are already there, and the Postmaster says if just 10% of the underserved bank with the postal bank giving …

Buyer of Fairmont post office purchased frustrationMankato Free PressHaving watched the demolition of the Fairmont Hotel, the local Andrew Carnegie Library and the National Guard Armory, he decided to stop the demolition of the U.S. post office, if he could. He had grown up two blocks from the building, and …

The United States Postal Service will be seeking community input ahead of a decision related to the future of the Waukomis Post Office. More: continued here

Guilty Pleas In Post Office BurglariesHillsboro ReporterAccording to court records, from December 2013 until March 2014, the defendants conspired to steal U.S. mail and other government property by breaking into U.S. post offices and blue mail receptacle boxes located outside of post offices in an area … More: continued here

BBC News Post office opens in West Hampstead churchBBC NewsA post office has opened in a church in West Hampstead, north London, after the local office was closed. The project cost £600,000 and was funded by the council, the parish and a private donor. Father Andrew Foreshew-Cain, the vicar and …

WASHINGTON | It’s taken a while, but a bill to rename the Tyrone Post Office for a local soldier killed in Afghanistan has passed in the House of Representatives and is on its way to the president for his signature. More: continued here

DETECTIVES investigating a robbery at Filton Post Office need your help tracing the origin of a weapon used by the offenders. The robbery happened on Thursday, July 17 when two men entered the shop on Church View armed with a knife and a wooden baton. They took cash before fleeing …

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Evant residents face post office predicamentKilleen Daily HeraldAnnouncing a community meeting to “answer questions and provide additional information about POST Plan,” the one-page document lists four “options that the post office is considering.” Surveys were sent to customers to be shared at the meeting, which … More: continued here

Another Thetford Post Office Faces CutsValley NewsThetford — The Thetford Center post office nestled in the back of the Thetford Village Store is the latest Upper Valley post office with its operations under the microscope, as federal officials wrangle with budget deficits in the nation's mail …Community meeting in Cyrus …