Newton Post Office to help feed the hungry

Postal Service expects increase in package deliveriesNew York PostThe post office expects to deliver nearly 15 billion pieces of mail and 420 million packages during the holiday season. The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday that it expects letters to decline slightly while package deliveries between Thanksgiving and … More: continued here

St. Louis Old Post Office Plaza Opens Today at 9th and Olive StreetsRiverfront Times, MOBy Nick Lucchesi in Bidness, Community The grand opening of the Old Post Office Plaza gets underway at 9th and Olive Streets at 4 pm today (aka happy hour!). The new $8-million, 30000-square-foot plaza was once home to a surface parking lot….

Tough economic times hurt post officeNewsweek –2 hours agoAP (ST. LOUIS) The postmaster general says the postal service could lose about $2 billion this year due to tough economic times. … More: continued here

Congress considers bill to name post office after Marine killed in IraqTallmadge ExpressTallmadge — Congressman Tim Ryan has introduced a bill to redesignate the United States Post Office at 162 Northeast Ave. after a Tallmadge resident who was killed in action in Iraq in 2005. Ryan introduced the bill April 26, which proposes to name…

Tignish post office building reopensJournal PioneerResidents and officials gathered today to celebrate the grand re-opening of the Tignish Post Office. Constructed in 1911, the Tignish Post Office is …and more » More: continued here

Anne Nix makes NH's floating postal office runnwitimes.com8, 2011, the M/V Sophie C sits at port in Laconia, NH The Sophie C is the nation's only inland floating post office. The Sophie C is the nation's only inland floating post office. If the local post office were to shut own, would anyone miss it? ……