Post Office

Audit: Green Bay mail center insufficient for absorbing Oshkosh operationGreen Bay Press GazetteBackground: The US Postal Service plans to close its Oshkosh mail processing center and move operations to Green Bay. What's new? An audit found the Green Bay site lacks enough space and is less efficient than the Oshkosh …

The tiny Topaz Post Office has been added to a list of 3,655 post offices under review by the U.S. Postal Service to close next year. More: continued here

Thieves walked off with two air conditioning units at the post office in Riverside over the weekend. More: continued here

BBC News Gang flees empty-handed after post office cash machine raidBelfast TelegraphBy Connla Young Thieves have failed in an attempt to steal a cash machine from a post office in Dungiven. A masked three-man gang struck the post office and shop in the town's Main Street in the early hours …

Watauga Democrat Preserve post offices across USDelmarva NowSalisbury resident Shirley Conner writes a check while mailing her taxes as postal employee Chad Metzinger waits at the post office in Salisbury. "I was surprised I didn't have to wait in line very long," Conner said. / MATTHEW S. GUNBY/OCEAN PINES …Postal …

The Guardian The fading genius of the US post officeThe GuardianThe superb post offices of the New Deal era are a monument to America's democratic ethos. Now we're selling off FDR's legacy On 9 June, the General Services Administration threw Modesto's downtown post office onto the auction block. … More: …

The Cypress Post Office has joined two other local post offices on the list of those being studied for possible closure. U.S. Postal Service representative Stephen Seewoester. More: continued here

DES MOINES — Gov. Terry Branstad is calling for a moratorium on post office closings until the United States Postal Service can better explain the criteria it will use to shut down some 3,700 post offices nationwide. More: continued here

mail center insufficient for absorbing Oshkosh operationOshkosh NorthwesternBackground: The US Postal Service plans to close its Oshkosh mail processing center and move operations to Green Bay. What's new? An audit found the Green Bay site lacks enough space and is less efficient than the Oshkosh site. What's next? Post office…and …

1000 post office employees protest in RomaniaMSN MoneyBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – About 1000 post office employees have gathered outside the Ministry of Communications in the Romanian capital to protest the running of the sector. Protesters say the state-owned company which employs 34000 people is losing …and more » More: continued here