Post Office

Use federal money for Postal Service, not warsnwitimes.comYour short piece in the Tuesday, July 31, edition on the current fiscal predicament at the U.S. Postal Service states that "post office nears historic default on $5B payment." While this is factual, the piece gives no context for how the Postal Service …

NJ.com (blog) The United States Postal Service and the hypocrisy of CongressNJ.com (blog)Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), among others, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 369 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the Judge Shirley A. Tolentino Post Office Building moves …

A proper name for a post–office fixWinston-Salem JournalBy "things," I actually mean a singular "thing," and that one thing is renaming post offices. ABC OTUS News reported in an online story that, in the past year and a half, members of Congress introduced 60 bills to change the names of …

All about Mount MourneCharlotte ObserverThe Mount Mourne Post Office building on the east side of N.C. 115 opened in November 1965. It serves only customers with post office boxes; it has no carrier delivery. DAVE VIESER. http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/08/02/12/12/Whv6i. More: continued here

FullCircle collects $3M, expands office spaceWashington PostFullCircle is announcing Monday that it has raised $3 million in venture capital and moved into a 5000-square-foot office in Herndon, as the upstart looks to tackle the often-tricky business of social networking. The firm has built a location-based … More: continued here

A post office in Lewiston is the site of the latest car into a building accident. More: continued here

The city of Franklin is looking for a tenant for the 1924 Five Points Post Office building. More: continued here

The Nation. (blog) House GOP: Uncertainty over Post Office finances delaying reform billThe Hill (blog)The House has left Washington without passing a fix to the Postal Service, and Republicans now say they are not likely to bring the issue to the floor until after November's elections. House Republicans acknowledge that …

New York Daily News 'Dark Knight' on top for third straight weekWashington PostLOS ANGELES — “The Dark Knight Rises” topped the box office for the third week in a row, making $36.4 million this past weekend. The finale in Christopher Nolan's epic Batman trilogy has now made nearly $355 million …

For the Post Office, today is D-Day | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte …Charlotte ObserverWelcome to the week the U.S. Postal Service defaults on a major obligation. D-Day is today, Aug. 1, when the Postal Service is obligated, by statute, to make a $5.5 billion payment, money that is supposed to …