Post Office

1st village post office to open in Lester businessWTVM(AP) – A local business is stepping in after the US Postal Service closed the town branch. The Barn Feed and Seed in Lester will be the location of Alabama's first Village Post Office. The service considers village post offices in locations …

The people of Hoyt will be the first to tell you there is not much to the town. But many think it's pretty much perfect just the way it is. Calderwoods Grocery Store Manager Steven Beasterfield says, "We have the veterinarian. We have our own funeral home. I mean, pretty …

Small town residents breath a sigh of relief because their post office will stay open. More: continued here

Retford Today Local postal model 'must improve'Retford TodayA new model of providing postal services in stores or petrol stations should be improved after research revealed problems such as inaccurate product and pricing advice, according to a consumer group. Consumer Focus said the so-called Post Office Locals …and more » More: continued …

The Daily Jeffersonian Post offices help with nationwide food driveDaily Comet“The post office is really great for doing this. I don't know how we ever made it without them.” Postcards and shopping bags promoting the food drive have been delivered by letter carriers for the past week as a reminder …

The North Shore Times asked readers what they thought about queues at their local post office: More: continued here

WTHI Brookfield Post Office Delivers For the HungryPatch.com"It's a good cause," said Chuck Spahn, postmaster at the Brookfield Post Office, 17345 Civic Drive. "We have a lot of volunteer help to assist." Spahn said residents can put donated items in the bag carriers left on their doors.Post office Stamps Out …

Plan saves rural post officesColumbia Daily TribuneWASHINGTON (AP) — Bending to strong public opposition, the nearly bankrupt US Postal Service yesterday backed off a plan to close thousands of rural post offices after Tuesday and proposed keeping them open but with shorter operating hours.Oswego County's Rural Post Offices Survive in …

Rural post offices to stay open under new proposalRedwood TimesThe nearly bankrupt US Postal Service has backed off of a plan that would have closed eight local post offices, but it will instead reduce the hours at 23 locations in Humboldt County under a proposal unveiled Wednesday. After the Postal …

ABC News Post office quarterly loss climbs to $3.2B; mail agency says Congress partly …Washington Post“These actions are not enough to return the Postal Service to profitability.” Overall, the post office had income of $16.2 billion from January through March, the second quarter of its 2012 fiscal year. That was …