Post Office

Drive through the dilapidated main strip in Terry, Miss., and it’s easy to see that the town of 1,063 is a hardscrabble place. More: continued here

Commentary: Bank on the post office to save America's 'bank deserts'Palm Beach PostBut these towns and neighborhoods all still have one beloved asset: a post office. And if ideas my agency outlined in a recent report come to fruition, those post offices could offer residents basic, affordable financial services, including …

Post Office issues Booker T. Washington stamp, April 7, 1940PoliticoOn this day in 1940, the U.S. Post Office Department issued a commemorative stamp honoring Booker T. Washington as part of its Famous Americans series. It was the nation's first stamp to honor an African-American. Washington, an educator who was born …and …

When York's Post Office building stood lighthouse tallYork Daily RecordOne hundreds years have brought a change from this landmark post office to a storefront post office on York's West Market Street. Good? Bad? Just reality? See before-and-after images of this landmark buildings at: Picturing History. Print Email Font … More: …

Spaniels Frankie (left) and Badger (right) started barking and tearing open the strange smelling package at a post office in Gloucestershire. More: continued here

By By Gary Smith – Daily Record Columnist “Children are the rainbows in our lives. Grandchildren are the pot of gold at the end of the rainbows.” Those were the words spoken by the Auburn Keystone Bank president as he and the bank’s Chairman of the Board Murray Neighbors met …

White Marsh Post Office Meeting CanceledPatch.comHowever, Richard Hancock, the real estate specialist for the postal service, told Marks the post office was finalizing a five-year lease agreement with the fire company and anticipated staying in the location. "White Marsh residents can be assured that … More: continued here

Two pet dogs managed to stop a drugs deal after they sniffed out cannabis contained in a parcel which had been dropped off at a rural post office         More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Pet dogs sniff out cannabis stashed in parcel at post officeTelegraph.co.ukIt is understood that an unwitting relative of the arrested man dropped the parcel off at the post office. A worker from the Post office, said: "It was left here to go out with Parcelforce. The smell was horrific. …

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