Post Office

Park Valley isn’t the smallest town in Utah. But it sure feels like it. But, Park Valley’s sense of community is as big as the surrounding mountains. So when the community heard a few months ago that they might lose their post office, they were upset. More: continued here

KSL-TV Plan to save Postal Service wouldn't help area officesJoplin GlobeAs a bipartisan proposal to save the US Postal Service from termination was announced last week, the clock continued ticking for mostly rural post offices slated for closure. Postal Service spokesman Richard Watkins said the legislation proposed in the …Small …

KSL-TV Small town post offices may close, residents feel some sense of community to …KSL-TVSo when the community heard a few months ago that they might lose their post office, they were upset. "It really made me feel bad when I saw we were on the list," said Brent Rose. …

Word on the Shore Residents pack Town Hall in support of post officePlattsburgh Press RepublicanAbout 45 citizens filled Elizabethtown Town Hall to voice their trepidation about the possible closure of the New Russia Post Office. Dan Cronin, manager of US Postal Service Post Office Operations for the area from Glens …

The Routt County Board of Commissioners doesn’t plan to allow the U.S. Postal Service to close the Phippsburg Post Office without one last fight. More: continued here

China Daily Europe reinvents post offices in a digital worldThe Seattle TimesAs mail volumes fall, Germany and other countries across Europe have developed electronic services that are increasingly making traditional post offices and mailboxes obsolete. By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Alexandra Kinkel, left, and her husband, …Reinventing post offices for a plugged-in …

The landlord of the New Russia post office has offered to drop the rent to $1 a year if the Postal Service will keep it open. More: continued here

Old Post Office gets another suitor: HiltonWashington PostAny doubt that the Old Post Office Pavilion would be able to attract top real estate developers and hotels in a tepid real estate market has been put to rest. Hilton Worldwide has proposed developing the Pennsylvania Avenue landmark into a 245-room … …

The Independent Fire Company in the small town of Ranson told the Hagerstown Herald-Mail that the explosion occurred at about 7:45 a.m. Friday at the Ranson Post Office. More: continued here

Its actions are leading to a shrivelled network of post offices and the ultimate destruction of a great public institution Exactly a year ago Vince Cable and Ed Davey, ministers of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, put their names to their big Post Office plan. It was called …