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Employees have now been allowed back into the building after the post office on Vassar Street was evacuated. More: continued here

Demonstrators rallied outside Portland's main post office to demand that Congress refund the money that it allegedly stole from the USPS. More: continued here

More Information About the Bellevue Post Office ConsolidationPatch.comBy Venice Buhain The Midlakes Post Office in 2010. The location has been for sale by the US Postal Service for several years and is slated to close in 2013. Got questions about the upcoming consolidation of the Midlakes and Bellevue Main post …

Manchin proposes a two-year reprieve from post office closuresBluefield Daily TelegraphVa., would grant dozens of local post offices as well as the Bluefield Postal Processing and Distribution Center a two-year reprieve from closure. Manchin introduced a bill Wednesday amending the postal reform bill to allow post offices to remain open …

Employees have now been allowed back into the building after the post office on Vassar Street was evacuated. More: continued here

Boise post offices sees lighter tax day turnout, rash of first-time last …KIVI-TVAnd not one this story or any Boise post office plans to answer. Death – thank goodness – turned up absent at the Cole processing center tax day, but those pesky levies proved as accountable as always. One …

U.S. Postal Service closings make small businesses nervousCNNMoneyNEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The potential of 250 US postal offices and distribution centers closing next month is spreading jitters among the nation's small business hubs. On May 15, unless Congress steps in, the Postal Service will proceed on its plans to …and …

The potential of 250 U.S. postal offices and distribution centers closing next month is spreading jitters among the nation's small business hubs. More: continued here

Bellevue Downtown and Midlakes Post Offices Could Head North of Bel-RedPatch.comA letter from the US Postal Service to the city officials named an office building north of Bel-Red Road as the preferred relocation site of the Downtown and Midlakes post offices. The move would be in 2013. By Venice Buhain …

Space shuttle Discovery: With social media, so close, and yet, so farWashington Post (blog)By Maura Judkis As the space shuttle Discovery passed by the Washington Post office on Tuesday, I neither saw nor heard it. I was inside, working. And even though there were thousands of others in the city …