Post Office

Rural postal carrier retiresClay Center DispatchThe Clay Center Post Office is asking rural customers to have patience as resources are stretched, rural routes are consolidated from five routes into four and Clay Center postmaster Morris Weyant assists the Wakefield Post Office. Rural Routes are … More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Post-masters lobby Government for 'vital' contractTelegraph.co.ukAlthough Post Offices already carry out a small number of jobs for the DVLA, such as providing drivers with tax discs and processing driving licence applications, the new contract is far bigger. It would include processing almost everything to do with …Suffolk: MP Dan …

A busy post office and two hotels in Sydney's west and inner west were raided by armed robbers carrying guns and knives yesterday. More: continued here

Cumberland Courier Newspapers Armed robbers hit post office, pubsSydney Morning HeraldThree men wearing balaclavas and armed with a shotgun and a knife, stormed the Emerton post office in Sydney's west yesterday afternoon and threatened staff and customers before stealing cash. No customers were harmed but a 90-year-old woman was …Armed …

A SUFFOLK MP has backed a Post Office bid to win a £450million Government contract seen as vital for securing the future of thousands of branches. More: continued here

Postmaster retires, office still open in Valley FarmsTriValley CentralAmid aggressive cost-cutting within the U.S. Postal Service, Valley Farms residents were told last fall their post office was on the list of offices both large and small being scrutinized for closure. Now the postal service is considering a four-hour … More: …

Quite a sendoff for this Hostetter postmasterPittsburgh Tribune-ReviewRetired Hostetter Postmaster Ginette Simpson (right) receives a hug from Peggy Ann Young of Latrobe during her community retirement party at the Hostetter Slovak Club the day after she retired from 36 years in the U.S. Postal Service. Simpson served as …and more » …

A Look at the Impending Post Office DefaultThe TakeawayBut the post office says it could all be avoided with a vote — a vote the House of Representatives is unwilling to make. Don Soifer is the Executive Vice President of The Lexington Institute and Executive Director of the Consumer Postal …

Baysiders want post office to stayQueens ChronicleCongressman Gary Ackerman (D-Queens, Nassau) announced in July that he had learned the U.S. Postal Service was planning to move the post office into the annex on 216th Street as a cost-cutting measure and that no jobs would be lost. Ackerman noted … More: …

Postal Service cuts hurt rural outposts the mostDetroit Free PressThe Postal Service, reeling from its failure Wednesday to make a $5.5-billion payment toward employee benefits, continues to move ahead with plans to cut hours at more than 13000 rural post offices. The proposed reductions are poised to strike the …and …