Post Office

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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

An old post office in Gulfport with new owners is at risk of shutting down. The Gulfport Post Offic More: continued here

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 …