Post Office

Senator Jon Tester today announced that he got the U.S. Postal Service to keep open the post office in Black Eagle, Montana. More: continued here

Kalamazoo Gazette – MLive.com Closing downtown Kalamazoo post office would be 'big mistake'Kalamazoo Gazette – MLive.comJill Mclane Baker | Kalamazoo GazetteJoseph Pietras, of Kalamazoo, leaves the downtown post office after buying some …Closing post office would be `big mistake'Downtown Kalamazoo …Kalamazoo Gazette – MLive.comall 3 news articles » More: continued here

The post office says it lost $2.4 billion from April through June. More: continued here

The North Syracuse village post office is in danger of closing, again. In 2004, village residents and local politicians fought successfully to keep the branch open. Now it’s back on the U.S. Postal Service’s list of 677 stations and branches nationwide for possible closure or consolidation. More: continued here

In Fayetteville’s Haymount section, the post office has made up the core of the village since 1946. Now the Haymount Station, at 106 Oakridge Ave., is among more than 700 branches nationwide that could close or consolidate. More: continued here

The Centre City Development Corp. is paying $10,160 to Heritage Architecture to create a “list of potential new uses, creative adaptive reuse design scenarios and provide cost-estimating services for the selected alternatives,” for rehabilitating the old downtown post office building on E Street, according to a July contract. More: continued …

After 13 years of failed redevelopment efforts, the United States Postal Service is giving up and auctioning off its largest vacant property: the hulking 2.7-million-square-foot old central post office of Chicago, The New York Times’s Robert Sharoff reported. More: continued here

Buffeted by the recession and the popularity of e-mail and electronic bill payment, the Postal Service lost $2.4 billion from April through June, officials said Wednesday. That brings the year’s losses so far to $4.7 billion. And the Postal Service expects to… Sponsored Topics: Fiscal year – Postal Service – …

Still a place for the post officeBaltimore SunWhen I mail letters at my post office and have the four-digit zip code extension included, I'm usually assured of overnight delivery. … More: continued here

USPS Considers Post Office Closings, Reduced Mail Delivery and Reduced Hours More: continued here