Red letter day at new Aylsham Post OfficeNorfolk Eastern Daily PressThe Hungate Street Post Office will close its doors on Tuesday July 5 at 5.30pm and re-open in the town's Norwich Road Budgens supermarket at 9am on Friday July 8. Budgens manager Yvonne Ellis said workmen had arrived with a 'flat-pack' Post Office and ……
Canadians profit from Canada PostOwen Sound Sun TimesI had an interesting telephone call from MP Larry Miller on June 15 while picketing outside the post office after being locked out. Among other things, he stated he had two opinions — "legislate you back to work" or "leave you bastards on the street … More: continued…
Auctionbytes PENINSULA POLL BACKGROUNDER: Bill in Congress would end Saturday mail deliveryPeninsula DailyWASHINGTON — Saying he wants to “prevent another taxpayer bailout” of the financially strapped US Postal Service, a California congressman has introduced legislation to eliminate Saturday delivery and other substantial restructures of the post office. …Cora residents fight to keep rural post office…
CBC.ca Vancouver postal workers protest imposed contractCBC.caA locked out Canada Post employee waves a flag and blows a whistle outside the main post office in Vancouver, BC, on Friday June 17, 2011. Darryl Dyck/CP A locked out Canada Post employee waves a flag and blows a whistle outside the main post office in …Post office,…
Aylsham’s new Post Office is set to serve its first customers next month. More: continued here
It’s almost eleven in the morning and the National Post Office (NPO) branch in Butare town, South Rwanda, is almost as quiet as a cemetery. Business, explains one employee, has fallen as internet and mobile technologies have grown across the country. “We no longer get many people coming to send or receive their letters,” she…
CBC.ca Legislation ends postal lock-outYour Ottawa RegionEmma Jackson Mail delivery is expected to resume on Tuesday after the government passed the Canada Post back-to-work legislation on Sunday, June 26. The post office's plant employees will return to work first to begin sorting mail on Monday, …Post office, union ordered back to workMedicine Hat NewsCanada Post…
President Franklin Pierce approves telegraph office, June 27, 1853PoliticoMontgomery Meigs, the new supervising engineer, called for the telegraph office to be near the House post office, around the corner from a new press gallery. The new wing was also designed to offer the latest modern conveniences to the Capitol's …and more » More: continued here
As pressing issues fight for funding, incoming mayor questions value of …Spartanburg Herald JournalThe new Wellford museum is almost complete, but the new mayor who takes office in a few days says he isn't sure how the city will pay to operate and maintain the facility. Work continues on the old Wellford Post Office being…
Two Des Moines post offices face uncertain futuresDesMoinesRegister.comThe future of two more post office branches in Des Moines is in question as the US Postal Service looks for more ways to cut costs. Postal Service officials are deciding whether they can do without the Highland Park branch at 100 E. Euclid Ave. and the ……