One up on the post officeWashington Post1, The Post published my letter to the editor with suggestions for “Savings for the post office,” which included a “bucket amnesty day” for everyone to return their stolen white post office storage buckets. Imagine my surprise when I read the Nov. …Madera residents want post office to reopenClearfield…
CHRISTMAS ISLAND, N.S. – An appropriately named post office in Cape Breton will be akin to Santa’s workshop in the coming weeks. More: continued here
Technorati Post Office Is Going the Way of the Pony ExpressTechnoratiJust as the 19th century waved goodbye to the Pony Express, the 21st century is about to wave goodbye to the post office. The Pony Express was the FedEx of it's time. That time being the mid 1800's. It was the fastest mail service crossing…
Deborah Hopkins of Citi, K. Venkatesh Prasad of Ford, Hugo Sarrazin of McKinsey & Company, and David Zanca of FedEx speak at Techonomy 2011 in Tucson. Techonomy CEO David Kirkpatrick moderates. More: continued here
A grand opening ceremony for new FedEx Freight facility in Southwest Atlanta is taking place on Monday. More: continued here
State seeks to get back welfare overpaymentsOxford PressSheeks received food-stamps for a few months in 1991, then he found a job and no longer needed the food stamps. He suffered a stroke in 2010 and receives disability benefits. An estimated 8000 Ohioans owe an additional $8.4 million in food-stamp…and more » More: continued here
Kalamazoo Gazette – MLive.com Small Allegan town saves post officeWOOD-TVHer late husband Don Hutchins helped build the building that housed the post office. Hutchins and a dedicated group of volunteers decided to stand up to Uncle Sam, organizing petition drives and meetings to save the post office. …Glenn celebrating new post officeHollandSentinel.comHardware Store to Assume…
BBC News Wiltshire-based sergeant jailed for stealing medalsBBC NewsA soldier who stole medals from his colleagues' bedrooms and sold them on eBay has been jailed for five years. The judge at Swindon Crown Court said Gordon Hill, 37, had broken colleagues' trust "in the most disgraceful way". The court heard Hill, …SOLDIER WHO SOLD HIS…
A David-and-Goliath battle saved the identity of a small Allegan County town. More: continued here
Chronicling the lives and deaths of US post officesWashington PostWith thousands of post offices on the chopping block nationwide, fans of the US Postal Service are entering a new era of nostalgia. Evan Kalish, 24, may be the kind of person who's helping make old-fashioned mail obsolete in the Internet age. … More: continued here