Post Office

Post Office Meetings This WeekkhozradioInformational meetings are scheduled this week at area post offices to let customers know about a reduction in hours in the effort to keep the post offices open. The meetings are being held in rural communities across the nation by the U-S Postal Service.Down county post …

San Francisco Examiner Same-day delivery by post office coming to San FranciscoSan Francisco ExaminerThis Dec. 19, 2011 file photo shows people in line at the U.S. Postal Service Airport station in Los Angeles. Emboldened by rapid growth in e-commerce shipping, the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is moving aggressively this holiday …

Emboldened by rapid growth in e-commerce shipping, the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is moving aggressively this holiday season to start a premium service for the Internet shopper seeking the instant gratification of a store purchase: same-day package delivery. Teaming up with major retailers, the post office will begin the expedited …

Communities weighing in on fewer hours at local post officesRapid City JournalResidents of Keystone will find out firsthand about the postal cuts on Tuesday evening, when residents can come to the town's small post office, at 111 Winter St., to give input on the proposal to reduce service hours, according …

Columbia Missourian Hartsburg among area post offices facing reduced hoursColumbia MissourianMail carrier Kevin Scott's Chevy pickup is parked behind the Hartsburg post office as he sorts mail for his route Nov. 13. Rural mail carriers use their own vehicles to deliver the mail and must steer while sitting in the …

Christian Science Monitor Postal service may introduce same day deliverynewjerseynewsroom.comAfter losing increasing amounts of business to the Internet the last few years, the post office is taking matters into their own hands to try to stop the bleeding. About the only place the U.S. Postal Service has seen growth is …

East Queen Street building may go to tax sale HAMPTON — A Norfolk-based developer who once planned to turn the former downtown post office into a boutique hotel now owes $37,847 in back taxes on the property, according to the city treasurer's office. More: continued here

Plymouth Post Office To Offer Holiday Stamp CancellationThe Vermont StandardThe Plymouth, VT, Post Office is offering a special stamp cancellation to mark the town's 2012 Annual Coolidge Holiday Open House. A unique pictorial postmark which reads “Holiday Station, Plymouth, VT 05056, Dec. 9, 2012” is designed by John Lutz, … …

The U.S. Postal Service plans to reduce daily post office hours at Hartsburg and several other post offices in Boone County. Read more More: continued here

Juan Zigler allegedly handed clerks at the Marathon post office a garbled threatening note on which he wrote that he would “blow up the hole Florida Keys” on Friday, according to a news release from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. More: continued here