Post Office

LOOKING BACK: Cochrane House to Post OfficeTuscaloosa News (subscription)Fifty years ago this week, the antebellum Cochrane House at 1308 21st Avenue was being razed to make room for a new Tuscaloosa Post Office. The new post office, expected to cost between $350,000 and $400,000, would be located on the block …

Berkeleyside Protester at post office camp-in stabbed in thighBerkeleysideWhen a woman from the Berkeley Post Office Defense group asked to borrow the phone, Scott allegedly slapped her, according to the press release. He was agitated and expressed a desire to return to the tents. (Capt. Upson said Scott may have …

Town Hall A South Pole Elf Gets Hot About Global WarmingTown HallThen I guess the Post Office is the only private organization that has it's own police force with federal policing powers, huh? It's called the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and it bills itself as the “Federal law enforcement and …

Protesters at the Berkeley post office Saturday said they were told by police they had approximately one hour before they had to break camp and leave. But a police officer said he recalled a very different conversation. Ultimately, a majority of the protesting group did leave the area. More: continued …

USPS's Q3 losses were surprisingly small. Here's a way to shrink them even more.         More: continued here

A VILLAGE shop owner and sub postmaster is urging locals to support his businesses as he warns that a lack of trade could force him to close within four months. More: continued here

Misunderstanding results in many Berkeley post office protesters breaking campContra Costa TimesBERKELEY — Protesters camping on the steps of the Berkeley post office thought police were about to shut them down, so they took down their banners and most folded up their tents after nearly three weeks camping out to …

Future of Post Office Remains UncertainPhilipstown.infoAdjacent to Foodtown, the post office currently rents its space from Dan Katz, owner of the supermarket, under a sublease. However, plans to expand the grocery store into the present post office location has left the Cold Spring Village Board, Planning … More: continued here

Town Hall America's Post Office: Not As Doomed As You ThinkMotley FoolExperts were saying that unless something was done, the Post Office could be losing money at the rate of $20 billion a year by 2015. The USPS was, in short, barreling down the highway to bankruptcy, and about to …

Today in History: The First Post Office Opened in SarasotaPatch.comIt wasn't until 1909 that the Crocker family (yes, our very own Crockers, of Crocker Memorial Church fame) opened their post office, claiming the “southern part of Sarasota was under-served.” The location? Present-day Bay Road (the eastern extension of … More: …