Post Office

Post Office Food Drive drew 1200 lbs.The Landmark, MAThe Rutland Food Pantry received over 1200 pounds of food through the generosity of residents who participated in the Post Office Food Drive on May 9, Paula Stidsen, coordinator for the pantry said. Bins located in the post office lobby were overfilled … …

Post Office hosting 'Support the Troops'The Buckeye Lake Beacon, OhioNext week, the Buckeye Lake Post Office is hosting a Support the Troops event featuring tips how to send items to our troops overseas. Postmaster Chirs Johnson wants to make sure everyone knows about the Postal Service's discount for military shipping … …

Post office ends 24-hour counter serviceThe Associated PressCHICAGO (AP) — The US Postal Service will cease round-the-clock service at its last 24-hour post office windows in the country, located in downtown Chicago. Officials with the US Postal Service say they don't have enough customers to justify keeping …Chicago to lose …

East Orange post office robbedNJ.com, NJAn unmasked man yielding a black handgun entered the post office at 8:45 am Tuesday and demanded money from the employee, said Postal Inspection Service public information officer Ed Steed. No one else was in the store at the time. … More: continued here

The Moray Place Post Office will be opened on Monday for business. The two shops formerly occupying the ground floor of the building have disappeared, and the space is now taken up by the rooms necessary for the business of the office. More: continued here

Effective May 31, the West Hudson Post Office on 255 Kearny Avenue will shorten their hours of operation from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Monday to Friday and on Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to noon. More: continued here

The post office, by nature, is not an immediate-response organization. Just as it takes time to ship aletter from Atlanta to Bluffton, it takes time to fill out the paperwork to ship stamps from one post office to another. It’s afederal organization. Paperwork is both its bane and its foundation. …

WKRG-TV Liberating the Postal ServiceHuffington Post, NYEver since 1970, when it was created by Congress to succeed the old Post Office Department, Congress had said that it wants the Service to operate like a business. Yet ever since 1970, whenever attempts are made to respond to that mandate, …Postal Service Expects …

The nation will lose its last 24-hour post office June 6, when the U.S. Postal Service plans to end overnight window service in Chicago. The facility at 433 W. Harrison St. has been the last American post office with 24-hour tellers, a distinction it has held since May 9, when …

Postal service: It didn't initiate closureThe Lake Country Echo, MNBy Ken Korczak There's a sign on the Jenkins Community Post Office door that says it's closing at the end of May; but a US Postal Service official in Minneapolis says, "Not so fast." Upon reading the story in last week's Lake …