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Frenemies: UPS, FedEx & the Post Office
Yahoo News At UPS, for example, if you use their “Sure Post” service, packages will be delivered via UPS to your local post office, and then the mailman will take it the rest of the way. It's a service the Postal Service calls “Parcel Select.” FedEx does this as … |
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SOUTH WINDSOR — Town councilman Saud Anwar wants to transform a vacant post office into an office space for start-up entrepreneurs and small business owners. More: continued here
Columbus Dispatch As mail dwindles, post office strugglesColumbus Dispatch, OH – Jeb PhillipsBy Jeb Phillips Harry Minck buys stamps from Bev Wilson at a post office on Leap Road in Hilliard. Minck was stocking up before rates go up on May 11. Forever stamps still will be good. You remember when a stamp cost 15 cents, the same…
BENTONVILLE, Ohio | The United States Postal Service will close the Bentonville Post Office on May 15, 2012, despite discrepancies in its records, according to Postal Service spokesman David Allen. More: continued here
liherald.com Long Beach post office reopensliherald.comMore than a month after Hurricane Sandy brought the Long Beach post office's operations in the city to a standstill, the facility reopened its doors on Monday, albeit on a limited basis. The post office has been closed since Oct. 31, after the building …Long Beach's post office to reopen…
A drawing of a smiling Santa saying "Merry Christmas to all .. and to all a good night!" is the special postmark for the southwestern Indiana post office of Santa Claus this December. More: continued here
Slate Magazine (blog) The Disappearing Post Offices of the Rural SouthSlate Magazine (blog)As Boillot explored the 11 traditional southern states, she discovered that although some people were saddened—or inconvenienced—by a post office closing, other people didn't really care and were happy to “get the building back.” Her series became … More: continued here