Customers line up to ship packages at the downtown Cedar Rapids Post Office on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Monday was expected to be the busiest day of the year for the post offices nationwide, kicking off the busiest shipping week of the year leading up to Christmas. More: continued here
Read More »Enders post office hours to be reduced – Imperial Republican
Enders post office hours to be reducedImperial RepublicanThe U.S. Postal Service has decided to reduce the hours the Enders Post Office will be open beginning Jan. 26, 2013. The final decision was to reduce the hours from six hours 20 minutes per day to two hours per day. In late …
Read More »Paoli Post Office closes the doors – Holyoke Enterprise
Paoli Post Office closes the doorsHolyoke EnterpriseMiller closed the Paoli Post Office, which was located on the west side of her home, on Nov. 16. She retired earlier this year on July 31 after serving just over 41 years as postmaster. For the three and a half months leading up …
Read More »Bethlehem Post Office has hit its Christmas card rush – Barrow County News
Bethlehem Post Office has hit its Christmas card rushBarrow County NewsThe Christmas rush has begun. The rush to mail Christmas cards that is, from the Bethlehem Post Office. Each year the small post office in the 'little town under the star,' is besieged with patrons wishing to mail their Christmas …
Read More »City Room: Metropolitan Diary: Owney, the Post Office Dog
Metropolitan Diary: A postal clerk tells a customer about Owney, a famous postal mascot in the 19th century. The story doesn't end happily. More: continued here
Read More »Should Congress name a Southern post office after a segregationist, vote … – Facing South
Should Congress name a Southern post office after a segregationist, vote …Facing SouthC.) has introduced a bill to name the historic Century Post Office in Raleigh, N.C. after one of the capital city's political legends, U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms. It would be the first federal building named after Helms, who …
Read More »Santa letters show hardships caused by Sandy, economy – Detroit Free Press
CBS2 Chicago Santa letters show hardships caused by Sandy, economyDetroit Free PressNEW YORK – The "Dear Santa" letters piled high in the back offices of New York's main post office are just as cute and misspelled as ever, but their scribbles and drawings tell heart-wrenching stories of children dealing with …
Read More »Cincinnati post office 'angels' collect Santa's letters
Every morning before they get down to business reading letters to a certain Jolly Old Elf, the Dalton Avenue Post Office's Angels on Assignment stand in the middle of their office. More: continued here
Read More »Gulfport post office faces closure deadline
An old post office in Gulfport with new owners is at risk of shutting down. The Gulfport Post Offic More: continued here
Read More »15-year-old arrested after meth lab found inside Chunchula Post Office – al.com (blog)
15-year-old arrested after meth lab found inside Chunchula Post Officeal.com (blog)CHUNCHULA, Alabama — Mobile County deputies are searching for a second suspect after the discovery of a working meth lab in the Chunchula Post Office led to the arrest of a 15-year-old boy. Deputies say the boy was one of …
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