Post Office

SANDY SULZYCKI: The Week That Was (Aug. 5, 2012)Ct PostThe Three Door Restaurant beat the Post Office Grill 4-1 in the City Softball League as Bob Finch had three hits, including a home run in support of winning pitcher Hank Kovacs. … Red Cowan outpitched Frank Giordano as Lombard's Restaurant …

The crisis hitting the U.S. Postal Service is not at all as clear as some people would have you believe. More: continued here

Post office nears historic default on $5B paymentAtlanta Journal Constitution"I think for my generation it was a great asset — if you had a letter or package and you needed it to get up to the North Pole, you knew it would be delivered," said Jim Husa, 87, of Lawrence, …

US Senate OKs naming Abbeville post office after Sgt. AbshireThe Kaplan HeraldWith the naming of the Abbeville Post Office in honor of Sergeant Abshire, generations of Louisianians will now have the opportunity to learn of and appreciate his courageous service.” The Post Office will be named “Sergeant Richard Franklin Abshire …

Macon Telegraph (blog) Old Dublin post office still delivers fine architectureMacon Telegraph (blog)Post_Office. Rodney Manley/The Telegraph The lobby of the old Dublin post office looks much like it did when the post office opened in August 1912. RODNEY MANLEY — rmanley@macon.comBuy Photo. Story Photos: Post_Office. Previous PageNext Page … More: …

DUBLIN — As a wide-eyed youngster, Jeff Davis walked into the pawn shop on Madison Street and was stopped in his tracks by the vaulted ceilings, marble-edged floors and huge, arching windows. More: continued here

New Russia post office in limboPlattsburgh Press RepublicanThe U.S. Postal Service had indicated that it might be closed last year, news that brought impassioned pleas to keep it open from residents at a meeting held in the Elizabethtown Town Hall with Dan Cronin, manager of post office operations for the …

Traci McGeehan, pictured with her grandson Aiden, 5, retired from her position of postmaster of the Frisco Post Office. During her retirement she hopes to spend more time with her family. More: continued here

"A rural post office is more than a place to mail packages and pick up letters," says Margaret McCoy, who retired as postmaster this week. More: continued here

Congress keeps busy going postalCulpeper Star ExponentBy “things,” I actually mean a singular “thing” and that one thing is renaming post offices. ABC OTUS News reported in an online story that, over the last year and a half, members of Congress introduced 60 bills to change the names of post …