Post Office

NEW YORK (CNN) — The program that operates small post offices inside dozens of Staples stores is being met with a big backlash. The worry: that regular USPS locations will be forced to close. Unions for the U.S. Postal Service aren’t too happy about this. That’s because these so-called “mini …

CNN Postal workers' union criticizes Staples-run post officesLos Angeles TimesCalifornia leaders from a national postal workers' union criticized a Staples pilot program that has installed dozens of small post offices in the office-supply stores, delivering a letter to store managers in the Bay Area recently. American Postal …Staples' mini post …

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Could back office outsourcing at Post Office spell end to troublesome Horizon …ComputerWeekly.com (blog)Despite years of allegations that the Horizon system is at fault for many accounting shortfalls, the Post Office has unrelentingly defended it. However it recently admitted that it had to look more closely at individual sub-postmaster cases. …

Lecompton Residents Concerned For Their Post OfficeWIBWLECOMPTON, Kan. (AP) _ More than 100 people attended a weekend meeting about the future of Lecompton's post office. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Mayor Sandy Jacquot encouraged the standing-room-only crowd Saturday to write the U.S. …and more » More: continued here

Examiner.com Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2014: Are banks, post office, stores open or closed?Examiner.comMartin Luther King Jr. Day is also a U.S. Postal Holiday (USPS), and all U.S. post offices are closed for business. This includes not only mail delivery to your residence or business, but also local post …

Unions Angered by Postal Service's Staples OutletsABC NewsUnion leaders fear that if the Staples program is successful, the Postal Service will want to expand it to more than 1,500 of the company's other stores. That could siphon work and customers away from nearby brick-and-mortar post offices, taking jobs … More: …

CNN Staples' mini post offices draw union ireCNNWorkers are concerned the experimental locations — staffed by Staples (SPLS, Fortune 500) employees, not Postal Service employees — will lead to the closure of traditional post offices and the loss of jobs with good wages and benefits. "The Staples …Post office, unions …

Woman loses control of car, damages post office: Solon Police BlotterSun Star CourierFailure to control, Station Street: A Jan. 10 police report shows a 59-year-old Solon woman was cited with failure to control. Police said the woman was pulling into the southwest side of the post office on Station Street …

Tributes are paid after the death of a village sub-postmistress who stepped in to provide services after Cardigan post office closed. More: continued here