Post Office

Blue Springs downtown post office to closeBlue Springs ExaminerThe U.S. Postal Service plans to close the downtown Blue Springs post office, a move advocates of downtown revitalization are already fighting. The facility at 200 N.W. 11th St., which the Postal Service calls its “retail store,” is to be consolidated … …

STOCKS NEWS SINGAPORE-Singapore Post could spin off assets-OCBCReutersWith property listings gathering pace in Singapore, it could be an opportune time for Singapore Post to spin off some of its post office assets, OCBC Investment Research said. Singapore Post has a property portfolio, consisting of 16 potentially … More: continued here

House GOP puts post office in 'death spiral'Aurora Beacon NewsGet ready to pay $24.63 to mail a letter if House Republicans like Darrell Issa (R-CA) continue in their efforts to dismantle the United States Postal Service. That sum is the UPS Ground rate to pick up a two-ounce letter in …

ABC Local Papers and Post Offices– Why interning is more than just tedious workABC LocalOK – I did have to sort a mountain of old newspapers, and walk to the post office on the one, rare day of winter where it's a high twenty-something and blowing a dusty gale. But …

Heidi Jo Jordan, who embezzled more than $10,000 from the Zanesville post office, is sentenced to three years of probation in federal court. The judge decided on probation after learning that Jordan, 38, already had repaid $5,000 of the $11,560 she stole and that the first-time offender was seeing a …

CHURCH HILL — There were no injuries reported after an 85-year-old Church Hill woman crashed through the front glass window of the Church Hill Post Office on Main Boulevard Wednesday morning. More: continued here

89.3 KPCC (Not) going postal: Postal workers face an uncertain future in the digital age89.3 KPCCThe post office used to be a great place to work: high pay, full benefits and — most importantly — job security. But that was before a cascade of announcements that the U.S. Postal Service …

Photos: Venice Post Office Surrenders to Renovations Under New Hollywood …LAistThe deafening sounds of excavation and construction—beeping, banging and jack hammering—fill the salty sea air of Venice's Windward Circle; construction on the Venice Post Office is underway. Hollywood producer Joel Silver showed enthusiastic … More: continued here

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) Postal regulator backs rural post office, junk mail plansThe Hill (blog)The Postal Service's regulator has backed the agency's plan to shorten hours at potentially thousands of local post offices. USPS said in June that it would examine whether to reduce hours at roughly 13,000 rural post …

              Hollywood producer Joel Silver showed enthusiastic interest in becoming the new owner of the historic Venice Post office earlier this year, and despite much local opposition, the Die Hard producer has indeed purchased the building and is already digging up and hollowing out …