Firefighters: Suppression System at Old Post Office InoperableNBC ChicagoBy Phil Rogers Chicago fire department investigators have discovered that the city?s old Main Post Office, the site of a stubborn blaze a week ago, had a completely inoperable fire suppression system. They said the building would be cited for …Train Caused …
Read More »Post office: Expect big cuts starting in mid-May – Salt Lake Tribune
Post office: Expect big cuts starting in mid-MaySalt Lake TribuneAlthough five rural post offices in Utah have been taken off a hit list, the US Postal Service is pushing ahead with planned cuts to more than 260 mail processing centers and other facilities around the nation, part of a billion-dollar …
Read More »Old Post Office Fire Suppression System Inoperable
Firefighters arriving last week to fight a stubborn fire found a water delivery system that didn't work, forcing firefighters to use hand pumps and a tower ladder. More: continued here
Read More »Post office: Expect big cuts starting in mid-May – San Francisco Chronicle
Post office: Expect big cuts starting in mid-MaySan Francisco ChronicleBased on community input and other factors, the post office said, it will move forward with consolidations involving virtually all of the 252 facilities on the list, as well as up to 12 new locations, beginning in mid-May. Of the 264 …
Read More »Seven NM Post Office Facilities Approved For Consolidation
Seven New Mexico mail processing facilities have been approved for consolidation, according to the American Postal Workers Union. The postal service facilities are in Alamogordo, Clovis, Farmington, Roswell, Socorro, Truth… Read more » More: continued here
Read More »Post Office processing moves hit Chicago, Aurora, Gary facilities
Mail-sorting operations will be eliminated at Chicago’s central post office at 433 W. Harrison St. and at the Fox Valley mail-processing facility in Aurora as part of the U.S. Postal Service’s plans to close and consolidate 223 processing centers nationwide.The post office centers will remain open. The sorting functions at …
Read More »Royal Mail warns of later post deliveries – Oxford Mail
Royal Mail warns of later post deliveriesOxford MailHouseholders face getting their post later under changes being introduced by cash-strapped Royal Mail. The OX15, OX16 and OX17 – which covers Banbury and the surrounding villages – are being affected from this week. Royal Mail said workers will deliver …TNT Post UK …
Read More »Berkeley school starts its own post office – Asbury Park Press
Berkeley school starts its own post officeAsbury Park PressThe assigning of street names was part of the school's participation in the Postal Service's Wee Deliver literacy program. The school set up its own post office where different classrooms are given their own individual addresses and students are able …and more » …
Read More »Post office consolidation means more work for North Charleston
The Postal Communications Office has confirmed that the North Charleston mail processing facility will benefit from the closing of a similar facility in Georgia. More: continued here
Read More »Bodega Owner and Worker Arrested in Food Stamp Fraud Case – New York Times (blog)
Bodega Owner and Worker Arrested in Food Stamp Fraud CaseNew York Times (blog)By MOSI SECRET An owner and cashier at a Brooklyn bodega were arrested Thursday morning, accused of being involved in a long-running scheme in which they gave store customers cash in exchange for food stamps, according to court …
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