Post Office

Riverton, Pleasant Valley Post Offices scaling back hours, but not closing downTorrington Register CitizenBarkhamsted >> Emotions ran high Wednesday afternoon as residents reacted to representatives from the United States Postal Service, who were there to discuss how the two post offices in town — Riverton and Pleasant Valley — will …

A married couple who has robbed 11 post offices in 10 provinces has been arrested in Ayutthaya province, Provincial Police Region 7 commander Harnpol Nitwiboon said on Friday. More: continued here

Post office finds 106 chicks a home after they get lost in the mailmsnNOWSo where do private shippers turn when they absolutely, positively are in a panic about a delivery gone wrong? Try the U.S. Postal Service. That's how 106 baby chickens wound up at a D.C. post office after …

2nd man sought in Fairbanks post office deathFairbanks Daily News-MinerFAIRBANKS-Fairbanks authorities said today a second unidentified person was seen with the man in the downtown post office 20 minutes before the man was found on fire by a postal customer New Year's Day. The burn victim, Johnny Wallis, 59 and …

Man pleads guilty to threatening judge, post officeTheDay.comA 45-year-old man has pleaded guilty to sending a threatening note to a New London judge in September 2010 along with a substance he said was “liquid Anthrax” and to making a bomb threat that resulted in the evacuation of the Thomaston Post …

Township Police and Fire Officials responded to the area of 5 Water Street near the post office for a motor vehicle accident this afternoon. More: continued here

Post offices may see hours changeMarion StarSuzanne Howell was a letter carrier for 22 years before transferring to the rural Radnor Post Office. Established in 1903, the Radnor Post Office serves 417 residents and 13 businesses along a 75-mile long rural route in northern Delaware County, just … More: continued …

BRIDGEPORT–A former Morris man who sent a bomb threat to the Thomaston Post Office in 2010 has admitted to mailing threatening letters in federal court. More: continued here

Deseret News Postal Service's balk at pension funding requirement means burdens for future …Deseret NewsThe Government Accounting Office recently released a report arguing that the Post Office should "prefund its retiree health benefit liabilities to the maximum extent that its finances permit.” “To the extent short-term prefunding payments are postponed …

Johnson City Press (subscription) Reduced hours proposed at Unicoi post officeJohnson City Press (subscription)UNICOI — Like thousands of post offices across the country, retail hours at the Unicoi Post Office could soon be reduced. More than 20 members of the community were on hand for a public meeting Wednesday at …