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The U.S. Postal Service is backing off a previous plan to close 13,000 post offices nationwide. Instead, it will cut hours at the facilities. More: continued here

Postal Service: Will keep rural post offices openBismarck TribuneBy HOPE YEN AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The financially struggling US Postal Service sought Wednesday to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours. At a news briefing, … …

Ovalo Post Office won't close; Abilene mail center fate uncertainReporterNews.comBy Scott Kirk Special to the Reporter-News On Wednesday, the US States Postal Service announced it would not close more than 3700 low-revenue post offices on May 15 after all, including 300 in Texas and 27 in the Big Country. Ovalo …

Finding out the Ovalo Post Office won't close made Markay Short's day. More: continued here

Communities in fear of losing their local post office can breath a sigh of relief for now as the U.S. Post Office announces a new strategy to achieve cost savings measures for the agency. More: continued here

In Jacob, Illinois the post office there will stay open but may become far less convenient. More: continued here

Postal Service drops plans to close thousands of post offices, proposes …Washington PostThe debt-ridden US Postal Service said Wednesday that it is scrapping plans to close thousands of post offices and instead will drastically reduce hours at most of its rural operations to as few as two a day. The …

Rural Quad City Post Offices May Stay OpenKWQC 6The blaze started around 1pm Tuesday afternoon in the foundry'sMore >> The US Postal Service has a solution to keep hundreds of rural post offices open: shorter work hours. Under the plan released Wednesday, some post offices will only have two to …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A United States Postal Service plan meant to help save rural post offices would reduce retail hours for nearly 500 post offices across West Virginia, the federal agency announced Wednesday. In all, 13,000 post offices nationwide — … More: continued here

Mother Nature Network Post office has Stamp Out Hunger food drive SaturdayReporterNews.comBy Charles G. Anderson Sr. Special to the Reporter-News Contributed photo Postal Service carriers in Abilene — from left, Paul Riffle, Mike Tatum, Sandra Johnson and Carl Montgomery — on Tuesday show off some of the bags carriers are …