Rep. Owens says post office closure plan used flawed selection process, urges haltNorth Country NowBill Owens and more than 100 of his colleagues in the House of Representatives are calling into question the way the US Postal Service made its selections of post offices to close. The Parishville, West Stockholm and Hailesboro post offices are…
WASHINGTON — Mired in red ink, the U.S. Postal Service is warning it will lose as much as $18.2 billion a year by 2015 unless Congress grants it new leeway to eliminate Saturday delivery, slow first-class mail by one day and raise the price of a postage stamp by as much as 5 cents. More:…
Special Report: Towns go dark with post office closingsAllentown Morning Call(Reuters) – Postal officials were blunt in December when they stood before 120 residents in Dedham, Iowa, to tell them why their town's post office has to close. The Internet, officials said, was killing the US Postal Service. "Well, I have no Internet … More:…
Post office: $18-billion loss without cuts, rate increaseStaunton News LeaderThe 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 » More: continued here
Post office: $18B loss without cuts, rate increaseSTLtoday.comThe 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 » More: continued here
Glencliff Site one of few on Appalachian Trail A post office described as a lifeline for residents of a tiny village and hikers traveling the Appalachian Trail is expected to close in May as part of the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to avoid bankruptcy. The independent Postal Regulatory Commission yesterday upheld the Postal Service's October…
Post office fraud: Key accused arrestedIBNLive.comKOCHI: Giving a new turn to the fund misappropriation case at Kaloor post office, the Ernakulam North police arrested the accused MT Sreemathi, 60, from her residence at Eroor here on Thursday. She was produced before the Ernakulam Additional Sessions … More: continued here
Post Office turns down tractor firm’s site offerBury Free PressTHE Post Office has pledged to give Great Finborough back its office after turning down the offer of a site nearby. The village Post Office in Chaplins Newsagents, in Finborough Road, closed on January 19 and after reading about it in the Bury Free … More:…
Lititz post office savedLancaster NewspapersBy TOM MURSE The US Postal Service has abandoned its plan to shutter the downtown Lititz post office, a cost-saving proposal that sparked widespread condemnation in the bustling borough. A spokesman for the beleaguered agency, which is losing billions …and more » More: continued here
The U.S. Postal Service has abandoned its plan to shutter the downtown Lititz post office, a cost-saving proposal that sparked widespread condemnation in the bustling borough. A spokesman for the beleaguered agency, which is losing billions of dollars a year, said Thursday the post office that has o… More: continued here