Final post office meetings heldBureau County RepublicanAt last week's community meeting in Cherry, U.S. Postal Service representative Donna Sherwood said the Cherry Post Office customers will see a reduction of weekday open window hours from seven hours to four hours, Monday through Friday. The likely … More: continued here
Harry Potter has millions of fans. Benjamin F. Bailar is not one of them. The 80-year-old former postmaster general and avid stamp collector sent a letter last month to Patrick Donahoe, the current postmaster general, berating the United States Postal Service for including the boy wizard on its postage stamps. More: continued here
Dwindling letter volumes means many post boxes no longer cover their costs, so between 45,000 – 50,000 will be emptied earlier, while rural Scotland and Northern Ireland will get new boxes. More: continued here
UPDATED // Hawaii Island post offices will be open during regular business hours on Friday. Management has earlier directed offices to close by noon to… More: continued here
BBC News Royal Mail Peterborough staff walk-out affects 4000 customersBBC NewsPostal deliveries to about 4,000 Cambridgeshire customers were disrupted when about 70 Royal Mail staff walked out over a management dispute. Sorting and delivery staff at the Orton Southgate office in Peterborough walked out at 06:45 BST. A union … More: continued here
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Is the Postal Service ruining stamps? Sales are in decline, and the agency's efforts to shore up revenue with pop culture have some philatelists in an uproar. More: continued here
Businessweek Ex-Postmaster Says USPS Harry Potter Stamps Are a Form of ProstitutionJezebelBenjamin F. Bailar, who served as the Postmaster General from 1975 to 1978, is righteously pissed about the selection of Harry Potter to adorn a collection of new stamps. According to The Washingon Post, Bailor resigned from the Citizen's Advisory …Ex-Postmaster General Accuses the…
South Shore yawns about post office changesWatertown Public OpinionSouth Shore is one of many South Dakota communities facing reduced post office hours, and has been listed by a May 5, 2012 document to go down from eight hours to four hours. Other post offices are slated to go down to six, four or two hours….
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