Post Office

Chicago Sun-Times Emanuel scraps eminent domain, announces deal for Old Post OfficeChicago Sun-TimesAfter threatening the use of eminent domain to wrest Chicago's Old Post Office from Englishman Bill Davies, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Tuesday that a tentative deal had been struck under which Davies would sell the property to a …

Chicago Tribune Old main post office owner, buyer get conditions from the cityChicago TribuneThe sale and redevelopment of the vacant and decaying post office that looms over the western entrance to downtown Chicago has been given a timetable by the city. The tentative deal between the property's interested buyer and …

Martha’s Vineyard Times Edgartown Post Office is now open in Carnegie buildingMartha’s Vineyard TimesPost Office mail bins were visible through a window of the Carnegie building Monday afternoon. Photo by Monica Busch. Edgartown officials sent out the following text message Tuesday morning alerting residents that the temporary Edgartown Post Office …Mail …

Berkeleyside Berkeley post office protesters cleared out in early morning raidBerkeleysideJust before 5 a.m. this morning, Post Office Inspectors cleared the protester encampment on the steps and on the side of the downtown Berkeley Post Office. Protesters from First They Came for the Homeless and the Berkeley Post Office Defenders …

Postal police evict Berkeley Post Office occupiersEast Bay Times (subscription) (blog)BERKELEY — A group of protesters and the shack they occupied in front of the Berkeley main Post Office for 17 months was removed early Tuesday morning by postal police. "We came in this morning and issued several federal misdemeanor …

Eyewitness News Top Post Office officials yet to be held accountableEyewitness NewsCAPE TOWN – Top Post Office officials who allegedly helped steer the state entity into the ground have yet to be held to account, Parliament's watchdog over state spending has heard. The standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) has …

Indianapolis Star 'Broom Guy' back outside post officeIndianapolis StarJim Richter, the blind Indianapolis man known as the Broom Guy, was back on familiar turf today — selling his brooms on United States Postal Service property for the first time since getting the boot in February. Richter set up his familiar …

Picayune Item McNeill Post Office 125 years oldPicayune ItemCurrent postmaster Sheila Mitchell said McNeill's post office is a remotely managed post office, which is a post office where the postmaster does not work at the site. Mitchell is the postmaster for not only the McNeill office, but also the Carriere …

Lifehacker Australia The Post Office Just Dropped the Price of StampsLifehacker AustraliaThe United States Postal Service recently dropped its rates, and a standard First-Class stamp now costs $0.47. According to USA Today, it's the first drop in 100 years. The difference isn't much, but if you're thrifty, now may be …

ChronicleLive CCTV captures 'brazen' thief who targeted Gateshead post office two days in a rowChronicleLiveHis every move caught on camera, this thief helps himself to goods from his local post office…..two days in a row. CCTV at Pelaw Post Office, in Gateshead, captures the moment the crook walks casually into …