Post Office

The City Council moved this week to try to save the historic downtown post office by passing a zoning law that would restrict uses of that property and other nearby historic buildings, to community-serving uses. More: continued here

The mailboxes at the Buffalo post office have been compromised and con artists have stolen around $7,500 out of the boxes since mid-December, according to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department. More: continued here

KLINGERSTOWN — Flames destroyed apartments, wrecked a Post Office and displaced 4 families in Schuylkill County. Firefighters had their hands… More: continued here

Washington Post Prosecutors say McDonnells can talk to relatives, but not about the caseWashington PostThe McDonnells were charged last week in a 14-count indictment growing out of their relationship with a wealthy Richmond businessman, a relationship first described by The Washington Post in March. Authorities allege that over nearly two …

First Post OfficeStatesman JournalThe first post office in Polk County wasn't much. It was Nathaniel Ford's cabin at Rickreall. It began as such in the early 1840s. And it wasn't much of a post office— just a place to drop mail off and maybe pick some up. Mail service wasn't …

Eugene man sentenced for Elmira Post Office burglaryThe Register-GuardA Eugene man who said his methamphetamine addiction drove him to commit a string of crimes, including break-ins at two rural post offices, was sentenced Tuesday to almost two years in prison. Allen Joseph Widmer, 43, appeared in U.S. District Court in …Judge …

Canada Post is promising residents who live in dense, urban neighbourhoods including parts of Toronto that they will be among the last to be switched over to community mailboxes. The post office announced last December a sweeping five-point action plan that includes the end of door-to-door home delivery in the …

Chastain Montgomery Eligible For Death Penalty At Post Office Killings TrialsHuffington PostMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a former prison guard charged with killing two rural Tennessee postal workers is eligible to face the death penalty at trial. U.S. Senior District Judge Jon P. McCalla ruled …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – A former prison guard charged with killing two Tennessee postal workers during a robbery that netted $63 is eligible to face the death penalty at trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. More: continued here

Thieves strike another Central Texas post officeKXAN.comA post office burglary in Lampasas, Texas that occurred between Saturday night and Sunday morning could be linked to similar thefts in Central Texas, police say. Boxes inside and outside the building were broken into at the location in the 1700 block … More: …