Post Office

A reward of £25,000 is offered for information leading to the conviction of a gang behind an armed robbery in Lancashire. More: continued here

Post Office Finally Delivers 70-Year-Old Letter to Greenwich Village AddressNew York ObserverA Greenwich Village woman was surprised earlier this year when she opened her mailbox to find a hand-written letter from 1944. “I hardly ever get real letters– maybe once in awhile from my mom or family, so as I was spreading out the pile,…

After seeing our report, post office apologizes to bride-to-beWECT-TV6LELAND, NC (WECT) – After her original wedding invitations were damaged in a fire on a postal truck, the post office picked up the tab for the postage for a bride-to-be's new set of invitations. The truck caught fire on Highway 74/76 in Columbus County … More:…

( Lost Letter Project ) Talk about the lost and found. A Greenwich Village woman was surprised earlier this year when she opened her mailbox to find a hand-written letter from 1944. "I hardly ever get real letters– maybe once in awhile from my mom or family, so as I was spreading out the pile,…

A view of the TCS office in Shollinganallur, near Chennai. File Photo E-mail may have killed the ‘letter’, but not the post-office. The friendly, paper-and-glue smelling post-office is reinventing itself, becoming swank and going electronic. More: continued here

After her original wedding invitations were damaged in a fire on a postal truck, the post office picked up the tab for the postage for a bride-to-be's new set of invitations. More: continued here

Congress Comes Together… To Name Post OfficesHuffington PostThe findings are contained in an April 26 report by the Congressional Research Service that was obtained by The Huffington Post. The height of the post office-naming craze was in the 110th Congress (2007-2008), which passed 109 bills to name post…One Area in Which Congress Excels: Naming Post…

Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail courts online shoppers with parcel collection from Post OfficesTelegraph.co.ukIt said 10,500 Post Offices will be part of the “Click and Collect” initiative, out of the nationwide network of 11,800. A spokesman said the Royal Mail was in talks with large online retailers to encourage them to include delivery to a Post Office…

PLANS to create a small car park in front of a busy Darlington post office will be considered by councillors amid objections from nearby residents. More: continued here

Post office collects record amount of foodJournalscene.comThe Summerville Post Office, Oakbrook Post Office, mail carriers for both and the greater Summerville community more than doubled last year's intake during the annual USPS food drive May 11 bringing in 21,486 pounds of food for the Lowcountry Food Bank … More: continued here