Post Office

Post office purchase is 'a done deal'Savage Pacerby Amy Lyon The city of Savage has reached an agreement to purchase the post office building located at 6100 McColl Drive with a lease-back agreement that will keep the post office in its current location for five years. PHOTO BY AMY LYON …

Owens: Merge Threatened Post Offices with Rural BusinessesNewzjunky.comWilliam L. Owens, D-Plattsburgh, has proposed a bill aimed to help communities maintain or reopen closed post office locations following more expected closures from the United States Postal Service as the agency faces possible bankruptcy. … More: continued here

Post Office wins contract to take snaps of foreignersRegisterBy Guardian Government Computing • Get more from this author The Post Office has won a contract to take photographs and fingerprints of foreign nationals seeking biometric residence permits (BRPs). Immigration minister Damian Green announced the plan …Online verification of BRPs launchedSecurity …

FEARS have been expressed for the future of a postal service after it was downgraded without consultation. More: continued here

Two balaclava-clad men wielding a sword and crowbar raided a Cambridgeshire post office – the second armed raid this week. More: continued here

BY MICHAEL MCNUTT mmcnutt@opubco.com The contender’s filing packet was delivered before Wednesday’s filing deadline to the state Election Board’s post office box instead of to the agency’s state Capitol office. Read more on NewsOK.com More: continued here

The Decatur Daily Third World Post Office for America?The Decatur DailyThe result is red ink — some $5 billion this year and an estimated $15 billion in 2012 — and this week's announcement of planned Post Office cutbacks aimed at ensuring its survival for a few more years. They include …

The Star-Ledger – NJ.com Roselle Park residents rally to save local post office from closureThe Star-Ledger – NJ.comBy Julia Terruso/The Star-Ledger Andrew Harrer/BloombergResidents of Roselle Park are pushing to save their local post office, which has been targeted for closure amid the US Postal Service's massive budget deficit. ROSELLE PARK …

Members of a south Bronx community rallied Thursday night against the United States Postal Service. More: continued here

BETHLEHEM, Ind. — Each December, a sleepy one-man post office in rural Indiana roars to life as thousands of holiday greeting cards arrive from around the world, each seeking the outpost’s unique red-inked imprint that pays homage to the hamlet’s biblical name. Postmaster John Cable stamps each by hand, … …