WLFI.com Sen. Webb to Postmaster General: Keep Post Offices open until reform is enactedSmith Mountain EagleWashington, DC – Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and other senators have asked Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to extend the moratorium on the closing of post office and mail processing facilities until Congress approves reform legislation.We admit postal bias – 5/9/12Mountain…
US Postal Service Losing up to $25 Million Per DaySan Francisco Chronicle (press release)The USPS is reportedly losing up to $25 million per day, and the Postmaster General is proposing to close up to 3700 post offices around the nation which would mean elimination 28000 jobs for postal workers. William La Jeunesse reported for Fox…
Congress Seeks Postal Overhaul While Making It ImpossibleBloombergFacing annual losses of $18.2 billion by 2015 and a possible default this year, the Postal Service has a five-year plan for profitability. It wants to end Saturday mail delivery, close hundreds of letter-sorting facilities and thousands of post offices…We admit postal bias – 5/9/12Mountain Valley NewsReform Bill…
The Star Post office finds new venue in Doncaster village storeThe StarA DONCASTER village may be getting its sub-post office back, five months after losing it. The Post Office has announced a trial of a new style of service based within a convenience store in Warmsworth, which will mean longer opening hours, … More: continued…
WLFI.com Congress Seeks Postal Overhaul While Making It ImpossibleBusinessWeekFacing annual losses of $18.2 billion by 2015 and a possible default this year, the Postal Service has a five-year plan for profitability. It wants to end Saturday mail delivery, close hundreds of letter-sorting facilities and thousands of post offices…Rural Wyoming post office users wait in limbo…
We admit postal bias – 5/9/12Mountain Valley NewsTwo weeks ago, when the U. Senate passed legislation that could save some rural post offices for another year, we decided not to comment. We made our decision based on the fact that we definitely have a dog in this race, and we did not want to come…
Post Office employee sentenced for theft of metal containers to sell on as scrapBradford Telegraph and Argusby Tanya O'Rourke T&A Reporter A Post Office delivery driver sold metal containers for scrap after being trusted to take them for repair by his employers, a Court heard. Royal Navy veteran Stuart Holmes, 57, had worked for the…
The Hornell Post Office was renamed two years ago, when the city lost one of its men who was serving as a Marine in Afghanistan. But his name is not allowed to be put outside the building. Our Lara Greenberg tells us why and what the community is doing about it. More: continued here
Talk Back to The Crier: Dunwoody Post Office, Tavern, TSLPOST, BrookhavenDunwoody CrierI am sorry the Green Market will need to shift its base of operations, but I am so glad the Dunwoody Post Office is staying and resuming the work that had been moved to the Shallowford site. For years the service at the Dunwoody…
ABC7Chicago.com WEB UPDATE: Post Office will help 'stamp out' hunger this SaturdaySiskiyou Daily NewsLetter carriers will collect non-perishable food donations left at mail boxes and in post offices for delivery to local community food banks, pantries and shelters. Nearly 1500 local NALC branches in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, …Letter Carriers Food Drive…