Post Office

Rural post offices hang on; hours are cutSTLtoday.comWASHINGTON • The United States Postal Service stayed the sword hanging over thousands of rural post offices, opting instead to cut opening hours in a bid to stem devastating financial losses. The USPS estimates that the plan will save $500 million a … …

Fairmont Post Office to Participate in National Stamp Out Hunger EventWBOY-TVPost offices across the country will try to Stamp Out Hunger Saturday. Post offices across the country will try to Stamp Out Hunger Saturday. Tuesday is Teacher's Appreciation Day and a local car dealership is offering teachers special pricing and …

Postal Service offers plan to keep rural post offices openQuad City TimesMore than 75 rural post offices in the Quad-City area would stay open under a new US Postal Service proposal, but they would have shorter operating hours. Bending to strong public opposition, the nearly bankrupt Postal Service on Wednesday …

Montana's rural post offices relieved that closures off tableThe MissoulianBesides serving the 110 folks who live in Avon, the Avon Post Office, Zip Code 59713, collects mail for several rural ranches in the area as well and, save for the Avon Café, is the only place in town that is …

REDLANDS – The U.S. Postal Service's announcement Wednesday that it will cut down hours at rural branches instead of closing them will have no effect on plans to shut the Brookside Avenue post office. More: continued here

Postal proposal would spare facilities but cut hours at Vermont post officesBurlingtonFreePress.comThe Highgate Springs post office pictured on Thursday, August 11 2011. / GLENN RUSSELL, Free Press file photo WASHINGTON — The cash-strapped US Postal Service, bowing to pressure from consumers and lawmakers, backed off a plan to close as …

KEZI TV Rural Post Offices Could Stay OpenKEZI TVA new proposal from the United States Postal Service could keep 20 or so rural post offices from the chopping block, but those hours may be cut. "I think closing this down would be a terrible thing," said Noti resident Dave Sims.and …

CANTON — Only one post office in rural north Cherokee is affected by a new plan announced Wednesday by the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service to back off closing thousands of rural post offices an… More: continued here

The Post Office blinked in the face of public opposition; rural post offices were scheduled to close as soon as May 15. More: continued here

The post office in Bath, shown here in July 2011, originally was proposed for closing as part of a U.S. Postal Service reorganization. On Wednesday the Postal Service called off the nationwide closings, under certain conditions such as reduced hours. More: continued here