Post Office

Make postal carriers' job easier by shoveling drivewayNewton KansanThe Newton Post Office is asking customers to help keep letter carriers safe by shoveling a path to their mailbox as soon as possible after it snows this winter. By Anonymous If you shovel it, they will come. The Newton Post Office …

The local post office geared up to handle last minute shoppers scrambling to send off their holiday gifts just in time for Christmas. More: continued here

Post offices not going anywhere — at least not yetThe Riverdale Press13 that they negotiated with Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe for a five-month moratorium on post office closings, while both the Senate and USPS study the potential solvency of the service. The USPS had planned to close 252 of its …

Post Office delays office closingsSequoyah County Timesby Dianna F. Dandridge, Staff Writer The two county post offices that had been considered for closing received a Congressional reprieve last week, according to Dionne Montague, corporate information spokesman for the postal service. … More: continued here

Postal officials plan to sell and close the Half Moon Bay post office on Stone Pine Road next year and open a new, smaller branch in the area. Postal officials say the change will not affect service n More: continued here

HMB post office plans to downsizeHalf Moon Bay Reviewby Clay Lambert Postal officials plan to sell and close the Half Moon Bay post office on Stone Pine Road next year and open a new, smaller branch in the area. Postal officials say the change will not affect service nor the …

Post Offices to be Open, Mail Delivered on Christmas Eve and New Year's EvePrinting Impressions (press release)21, 2011—All Post Offices nationwide will be open on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) and New Year's Eve (Dec. 31). Most will have shortened retail lobby hours and will close at noon. Mail delivery on …

Could you do Twitter via the mail? That’s the question writer Giles Turnbull posed (on Twitter), then went on to literally post his tweets by post, or snail mail: “Twitter is the contemporary postcard — social updates that are limited by size, but not imagination. More: continued here

Holiday Rush Over for Forked River Post OfficePatch.comBy Elaine Piniat Today may be the last day to ship your gifts priority mail to arrive by Christmas but the season is already over for the US Post Office, Forked River Postmaster William Wherendt said. “In our business, by Wednesday, the Christmas …

Two arrests over post office robbery in Baddesley EnsorBBC NewsTwo men, aged 37 and 31, have been arrested following a robbery at a Warwickshire post office. An unknown quantity of money was stolen from the store in New Street in Baddesley Ensor by two masked men at around 12:40 GMT …