Post Office

GreaterKashmir.com (press release) Srinagar gets floating post officeTimes of IndiaSRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: Tourists to Jammu and Kashmir now have another attraction — a floating post office on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, the first in the country. Minister of state for communications and IT Sachin Pilot and chief minister of Jammu …

MARIENTHAL — As Marienthal Postmaster Sonia Baker lowered the flags outside the post office late Friday afternoon and then locked its doors, many here believed it was for the last time. More: continued here

Cash crisis drives USPS towards insolvencyFinancial Times“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” reads the inscription carved across the neoclassical facade of the James A. Farley Post Office…and more » More: continued here

Srinagar/New Delhi, Aug 22 : Tourists to Jammu and Kashmir now have another attraction — a floating post office on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, the first in the country. More: continued here

RPT-FACTBOX-US Post Office's troubled financial pastReutersJuly 2009: The Government Accountability Office puts the Postal Service on its list of "high-risk" federal agencies needing attention by Congress and the president. * Sept-Nov 2009: Congress allows the agency to defer $4 billion of a scheduled $5.5 …My Turn: Douglas' post office is …

Post office closures not the solutionThe Hill (blog)The law specifically prohibits small post offices from being closed solely because they are operating at a deficit. The law recognizes that there would be unprofitable post offices, especially in rural areas. Post offices in profitable markets were … More: continued here

Riverfront Times (blog) Show Recaps: High Places at the Old Post Office PlazaRiverfront Times (blog)… to beat the weather were all conspiring against fans of the dreamy Los Angeles duo on Saturday night, a goodly number of humans made it to the Old Post Office Plaza for what turned out …

shropshirestar.com First time buyer age predicted to hit 35moneyfacts.co.ukThe study, conducted by the Post Office, shows the average age has been increasing steadily since the early 1960s, when 23 years old was the age when people tended to buy their first home. Women who do not yet own a property …

Post office on the moveThe Gympie TimesANYONE visiting Rainbow Beach and looking for the post office could be excused for thinking that it had closed down. Not so. It has just moved and become larger in two shops in the arcade next door to the Rainbow Beach Hotel. The last …

This is Money Britons expect to become FTBs aged 35Mortgage StrategyThe average age that Britons expect to take their first step onto the housing ladder is 35, according to research from Post Office Mortgages. Women are slightly more optimistic than men when it comes to home ownership, expecting to buy …