Post Office

Undercover Post Office: Tulsa Inspector Finds Drugs In The MailNews On 6In 2013, the post office found 45,000 pounds of pot in more than 9,000 packages. Most of what comes into Oklahoma is from Colorado, California, Arizona and Illinois; Colorado is now number one. "Individuals seem to think, because it's …

NBC Bay Area Tree trimmer apologizes for Oakland baby bird fiascoSFGatePulido was the supervisor for a crew of tree trimmers hired Saturday by the U.S. Postal Service's Civic Center Annex in Oakland. The post office ordered trees containing the nests of egrets and black-crowned night herons, species protected by the …

Post Office Says It Lost $1.9 Billion In QuarterNew York TimesWASHINGTON — The financially troubled Postal Service on Friday reported a net loss of $1.9 billion in the second quarter, the same amount it lost over the same period in 2013, postal officials said. But the service did report operating …

NBC Chicago (blog) Walgreen looks to move HQ to Old Main Post OfficeCrain’s Chicago Business (blog)Walgreen Co. is taking steps to move its headquarters downtown — the old Main Post Office. Under pressure by some shareholders to move its Deerfield headquarters to Europe, the drugstore giant has for months been …

Postal Service Reports $1.9 Billion Quarterly LossNew York TimesPostal officials admitted, however, that the increase in revenue as well as efforts to trim costs — like cutting back the hours at many post offices, reducing staff through attrition and consolidating about half of the service's processing plants …Post office reports …

Donate food to help the post office stamp out hunger SaturdayLubbockOnline.comIf you fill it with non-perishable food and put it outside your door on Saturday, it'll disappear, then reappear in the kitchens of Lubbock residents who need a little help. Saturday is the 22nd annual Letter Carriers' Food Drive, which …

Berkeleyside Op-ed: Beware deceptive 'Save Post Office' ballot petitionBerkeleysideDon't be deceived. Backers of a proposed measure for the Berkeley ballot in November are circulating voter-signature petitions under the guise of “saving the Post Office.” But the main thrust of the measure is to impose prohibitively restrictive fees … More: continued …

Daniel Brady, 28, appeared at court on Friday to plead guilty to three charges More: continued here

Union Square post office raises questions of public art preservation in SomervilleWicked Local SomervilleAs the U.S. Postal Service sells the old post office building in Union Square, the future of the historic mural inside hangs in the balance, bringing up the question of what power the city has to protect …

FirstBank unveils $3M rehab of Franklin post officeThe TennesseanFRANKLIN – With more behind-the-scenes changes still ahead for the longtime Five Points post office, a $3 million renovation of the facility will add a new bank to downtown Franklin's mix by early June. Months of planning, demolition and renovations … More: …