Post Office

ABC Action News Clearwater Beach post office to closeTampa Bay NewspapersFirst-Class Mail has dropped 27 percent and the Postal Service lost nearly $6 Billion in fiscal year 2010. The Postal Service is reviewing post offices for possible consolidations and closings to reduce the size of its national retail network. …Clearwater …

Canada Post, like its peers in the U.S. and U.K., is in a downward spiral More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Two thousand post offices to close and re-open with substandard serviceTelegraph.co.ukUp to 2000 rural post offices will close from next summer and be replaced by limited counter services in garages and shops, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent Under plans that will be rolled …

Post Office in midst of fast-moving seasonThe Tand D.comPeggy Poole, senior distribution clerk at the Orangeburg Post Office, processes a drop shipment of packages for next day delivery. Early every morning except Sunday, 30 or more mail carriers leave the Orangeburg Post Office on Middleton Street in their … More: …

Globe and Mail Season's greetings strikes sour note in declining post officeGlobe and Mail“Taking the time to send a card still is considered the best way to show you care,” says Ms. Traversy, who runs the post office's traditional mail business. Sending Christmas cards is still big business. And according …

Early every morning except Sunday, 30 or more mail carriers leave the Orangeburg Post Office on Middleton Street in their little motorized carts stacked top to bottom with letters from your mother or daughter, post cards from friends basking in Bermuda, catalogs featuring new dresses, bank statements, notices of your …

Colorado Springs police say they found two men with meth-making materials in a post office foyer, while it was closed. More: continued here

It’s that time of year when Bolivar Countians and everyone across the country are sending Christmas gifts, cards and letters to Santa. Which means it’s a busy time of year for the U.S. Postal Service. More: continued here

Last week, the U.S. Postal Service held a public meeting to discuss its proposal to move some mail processing operations from the Grenada Customer Service Mail Processing Center to the Jackson Processing & Distribution Center. More: continued here

Police arrest men with meth-making goods at Springs post officeColorado Springs GazetteTwo men who appeared to be cooking or preparing to cook methamphetamine were arrested late Saturday inside a Colorado Springs post office, police said. Officers checking on reports of homeless people staking a claim in the foyer of the …