Post Office

BBC News Card contract ‘will save 200 Welsh post offices’WalesOnline, United Kingdom –Nov 13, 2008Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell yesterday announced the Post Office would continue to run the account until 2015 and scrapped a tender process in …Threatened post offices win reprieve as rivals lose their bid to …Times OnlineFuture …

Temporary closure for village post officeDarlington and Stockton Times, UK –14 hours agoBy Catherine Priestley » POST Office managers have assured residents that a village post office due to close temporarily next month will be reopened. … More: continued here

Post Office card contract ‘right for customers’Press and Journal, UK –2 minutes agoBy Ben Padley Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell yesterday defended the awarding of the card account contract to the Post Office but refused to … More: continued here

Weak pound will not affect foreign bargains this ChristmasTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom –1 hour agoHowever, the shopping guide, produced by Post Office travel services, has shown that the cost of buying 10 popular Christmas gifts, including an Apple iPod …X-mas shopping for canny consumersThe Press Associationall 2 news articles More: continued here

'Silver sprinters' in race to post officeThe Star, UK –6 minutes ago'Silver Sprinters' have been spotted all over the region – I think they are in training for the imminent closure of a large number of post–office branches. … More: continued here

N. Idaho post office might closeFox 12 Boise, ID –5 hours agoAP – November 16, 2008 6:44 PM ET DOVER, Idaho (AP) – Residents of the tiny town of Dover in northern Idaho could be without a US Post Office on Wednesday. … More: continued here

Postal mail service beats odds despite internetGMA news.tv, Philippines –54 minutes agoAdmitting that there was a decreasing trend in people who rely on the mail delivery to communicate with kin or acquaintances, another post office officer … More: continued here

Some Lumbee abentee ballots returned by post officeFayObserver.com, NC –2 minutes agoThose that were returned can drop the ballots off at the post office of bring them to the Tribal Office on Union Chapel Road. “It will be hard for the folks … More: continued here

Post office burgledGulf Daily News, Bahrain –1 hour agoTHIEVES, who broke into the Bahrain Mall branch of the post office after closing hours, allegedly made off with BD5,000 in cash yesterday. … More: continued here

WWNY TV Post Office Prices Expected to RiseWWNY TV, NY –5 hours agoBeyond the friendly faces at the front of the Watertown post office is a major operation. More than 40000 pieces of mail are sorted each day, by forty-four … More: continued here