Post Office

VILLAGERS in Wylam have been left reeling after their long-serving sub postmaster and his wife were attacked by armed robbers during an early morning raid. More: continued here

Resident calls for closure of one of Rye's two post officesSeacoastonline.comBy MICHAEL MCCORD RYE — In an era of unprecedented US Postal Service contraction, a resident would like to see his town do its part by giving up one of its two post offices. “It's silly that we have two …

Trump: Old Post Office Will Be Among Great Hotels of WorldNBC4 WashingtonDonald Trump has big dreams for the recently acquired Old Post Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue. "It's a magnificent building," he told News4 in an interview, "and I've done magnificent buildings before. I think this has the chance to …

Historic City News Post Office, Library ClosedPatch.comIn honor of Presidents Day, the Hopkinton Public Library and the post office will be closed. By Sean O'Donnell It's February break, and you know what that means; a week of having the kids at home. In Massachusetts February break always falls in line …

Pony Express pauses for postal purposesWhite Mountain IndependentPeople gather in front of the Overgaard Post Office Feb. 8 for the Hashknife Pony Express as it makes its annual run. Overgaard Postmaster Patricia Pitterle (center) hands the mail bag to the rider for the run. The White Mountain Sheriff's Posse will …

msnbc.com Search continues for secret stamp honoring John Glenn's historic spaceflightmsnbc.comBut after his Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, safely splashed down, it was another type of station that took over tracking his historic mission: US post offices. For the first and only time in the country's postal history, the United States …

Post Office: $18B loss without cuts, rate increaseElizabethton StarThe plan, for instance, notes that if the post office could raise current stamp prices from 45 cents to 50 cents, either in a single year or over a multiyear period, it could bring in new revenue of roughly $1 billion.and more » …

The growth of online retailers represents the biggest opportunity in a generation, but Canada Post chief executive Deepak Chopra says the post office first needs to change to survive as fewer letters get delivered each year. More: continued here

A recent post on MinimalMac posits an interesting case for the slow, growing sense of the irrelevance of Microsoft, at least in the applications space. Go and read the piece – it's excellent – but the gist is that for years Microsoft banked on Office being as important to users …

Post office chief executive sees growth for service in e-commerceGlobal EdmontonOTTAWA – The growth of online retailers represents the biggest opportunity in a generation, but Canada Post chief executive Deepak Chopra says the post office first needs to change to survive as fewer letters get delivered each year.and more » More: …