Post Office

Wall Street Journal Film Ticket Sales Fell 3.8% Last Year as 3-D Sank Post-'Avatar'BusinessWeekBy Christopher Palmeri on March 22, 2012 Movie box-office revenue in the US and Canada fell 3.8 percent last year to $10.2 billion, the first drop since 2005, as Hollywood failed to match the 2010 success of …

Pasadena Weekly Dead lettersPasadena WeeklyBy André Coleman 03/22/2012 Two weeks ago, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe announced plans to delay the closure of 3700 post offices across the country until after the presidential election in November. Donahoe made the decision after hearing …and more » More: continued here

SUV Crashes Into Weber Road Post OfficeKRIS Corpus Christi NewsCORPUS CHRISTI – No one was hurt when an elderly woman crashed her SUV into the post office on Weber near Saratoga. Witnesses say around 11:30 am the woman was pulling up to the post office when she apparently hit the …

Feds Intercept Pot Shipped From Grantville Post OfficeSan Diego Reader (blog)An 11 pound package of marijuana bound for New York City was intercepted at a San Diego post office, The Smoking Gun reports. Further investigation from the Huffington Post indicates that it was an employee at the Grantville Post Office …

Effort underway to restore New Deal murals in Ellicott CityBaltimore SunBy Janene Holzberg, Special to The Baltimore Sun As a 5-year-old who adored her father, Shirley Bossom contentedly tagged along with him 70 years ago on daily errands that often included business in the granite-clad Ellicott City Post Office on …

The Fayette County Election Board on Thursday said post offices must deliver absentee ballots submitted through the mail to the election bureau. More: continued here

Providence post–office worker admits stealing cash from mailThe Providence Journal… in federal court Thursday to stealing cash from greeting cards sent through the mail, it was announced by US Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Jane Hughes, special agent in charge of the postal service's northeast area Office of Inspector General.and …

A gold SUV drove into the South side Station Post office just before Noon on Thursday. More: continued here

Plea made to keep post offices openInland Empire NewsRiverside County Registrar of Voters Kari Verjil has joined her counterparts throughout the state urging the postal service to delay post office closures. “I would encourage the postal authorities to keep the post offices open for the June primary … More: continued …

If you ask the Postmaster General about junk mail, he’ll likely correct you. “If you work in the postal service, it’s jobs mail,” he says. That’s why the postal service is pushing an online program to get more, um, jobs mail into your mailboxes. As has been widely reported, the …