Postal Service considers plan to cut hours at rural post officesAppleton Post CrescentAP and Gannett Wisconsin Media The US Postal Service is considering cutting hours at 385 rural Wisconsin post offices over the next two years as part of a nationwide strategy to save about $500 million a year. That …
Read More »US Postal Service will keep rural post offices open – Little Falls Evening Times
US Postal Service will keep rural post offices openLittle Falls Evening TimesThe Mohawk Post Office, at 25 Columbia St., will see reduced hours as part of massive cuts within the United States Post Office. By Hope Yen Bending to strong public opposition, the nearly bankrupt US Postal Service on Wednesday …
Read More »Two Birmingham farmers markets now accepting food stamps
A farmers market at Lawson State Community College is now allowing customers to use food stamps to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables. More: continued here
Read More »Rural Pennsylvania community relieved its post office won’t close – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Rural Pennsylvania community relieved its post office won't closePittsburgh Post GazettePriscilla Byzon, the officer in charge of the Coulters Post Office, hands mail to town resident Ken Logston today. Priscilla Byzon is the Coulters Post Office's only full-time employee. The branch would see its hours reduced from eight hours a …
Read More »Rural Post Offices won’t shut down but cut back – cbs4qc.com
Rural Post Offices won't shut down but cut backcbs4qc.comMore than 75 rural post offices in the Quad City area were expected to close their doors until now. "It's going to make them really happy that they don't have to go anywhere for their mailing," said Judy Bowlyou, Pleasant Valley Post …
Read More »Postal Service to Keep Thousands of Rural Offices Open, Cut Hours at Many Locations
The quaint rural post office, an iconic image all but synonymous with Americana, apparently will not suffer the fate of the full-service gas station. More: continued here
Read More »1st village post office to open in Lester business
LESTER, Ala. (AP) — A local business is stepping in after the U.S. Postal Service closed the town branch. The Barn Feed and Seed in Lester will be the location of Alabama's first Village Post Office. The service considers village post offices in locations where communities have no existing post …
Read More »Proposal to cut back post office hours
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service announced a new strategy today that could keep the nation's smallest Post Offices open for business, while providing a framework to achieve significant cost savings as part of the plan to return the organization to financial stability. The plan would keep the existing Post …
Read More »Food bank chief: House’s food stamps cuts ‘would be devastating’ – Florida Times-Union (blog)
Food bank chief: House's food stamps cuts 'would be devastating'Florida Times-Union (blog)The head of the Second Harvest North Florida food bank issued a statement today saying he is "outaged" by today's House vote to cut the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, by a "drastic" $36 billion. …
Read More »Food bank chief: House's food stamps cuts 'would be devastating'
The head of the Second Harvest North Florida food bank issued a statement today saying he is "outaged" by today's House vote to cut the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, by a "drastic" $36 billion. The cuts, if they become effective, "would be devastating for our …
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