Post Office

No decision on Kraemer post office's fateDaily CometA Tuesday meeting held in hopes of showing US Postal Service officials that Kraemer's small post office should stay open drew few attendants, retired postmaster Mary Alice Louque said. And a presentation by postal officials made it …and more » More: continued here

The Guardian Benefits deal has ''betrayed'' Post OfficePublic ServiceThe government's plan to take the contract for pension and benefit payments away from the Post Office and give it to the private firm PayPoint would spell disaster for the future of the post office network and was a "betrayal of Britain's …

Eight arrested over Hove post office robberyBBC NewsEight people have been questioned by police investigating the robbery of a post office in Sussex. Four women and three men were detained following police raids on properties in Hove, Shoreham and Worthing, while a fourth man was arrested in Brighton. …Arrests made …

KRAEMER — The future isn’t looking bright for a rural community’s post office. More: continued here

The next casualty of government cost cutting could be your local post office, as the United States Postal Service this month begins the process of closing 2,000 offices and reviewing 16,000 others, about half the country’s post offices. More: continued here

Communication Workers Union general secretary Billy Hayes attacked the government yesterday for snatching a lucrative contract for processing benefit cheques from Post Office. More: continued here

GARY— Mayor Rudy Clay Thursday said Thursday he would try to get all of the region’s mayors, clerk-treasurers and other public officials behind his opposition to a possible closing of the U.S. Postal Service’s processing and distribution center here.The postal service plans to conduct a feasibility study to determine if …

CNN International Post office faces cash shortage by end of yearBusinessWeekIt was a statement by Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe (DON-ah-hew), who said that unless things change, the post office will run out of money by October, the end of this fiscal year. Donahoe told the House post office subcommittee that …

Daily Mail Letter postmarked Alabama arrives in California 66 years laterUSA TodayA letter postmarked Montgomery, Ala., apparently left the post office just fine, but by the time it arrived in California 66 years later, the Red Cross hospital named in the address had long since been torn down. …Letter arrives …

24dash (press release) Countryside Alliance: Post Offices `could close by stealth`Politics.co.ukThe Countryside Alliance has warned that the latest removal of business to the Post Office network could result in them closing "by stealth." The Department of Work and Pensions has today given the contract of welfare cheques to PayPoint, …Post …