MoD appoints former Post Office and TfL IT chief as CIO

Claessen retires from Howard Lake Post Office after 36 years of serviceDelano Herald JournalAfter a year at the Cokato Post Office, she transferred to the Howard Lake Post Office, which offered more hours and was closer to her home, southwest of Waverly. “It's been a good job,” Claessen said. “Stamps were only 10 cents when…

When we enter our post office today, it is hard to imagine this wooden cabinet is what the first post office in Monette looked like. Arnold Stotts decided to move his family to the Buffalo Island area and secured about 580 acres of land just south of the present Monette Cemetery. More: continued here

Walgreen dalliance latest of many for Post OfficeCrain’s Chicago BusinessAlmost 18 years after shutting down, Chicago's old Main Post Office straddling the Congress Parkway has caught the eye of Walgreen Co., which has looked at moving its headquarters there — and about 3,500 workers — from north suburban Deerfield. More: continued here

Pasadena Weekly Post offices are safe…only for a whileAmsterdam NewsHundreds of post offices around the country can breathe for a few more months, as the United States Postal Service (USPS), at the request of 15 Democratic senators, decided to hold off on planned closings until May 2012. …Governor Mead Supports Post Office DelayKOWBClosures, not decisions…

Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel Winthrop post office fire closes Main StreetKennebec Journal & Morning SentinelMultiple area fire departments responded Tuesday to a fire at the post office on Main Street. The fire was reported just before 9 a.m. at 112 Main St. Police dispatchers described the fire as “fully involved” and were calling firefighters…

Lawsuit filed over 12563 misplaced ballots in RivCo electionSouthwest Riverside News NetworkThe ballots were apparently routed to a Moreno Valley post office that the registrar's office had never visited, and then sent on to a post office in …Lawsuit targets Riverside County over uncounted votesPress-EnterpriseCounty Democrats file legal action to get 12500 ballots countedThe Desert…