KOB.com Welcome reversal: Remote post offices will be spared for nowFairbanks Daily News-MinerThe US Postal Service has chosen wisely in removing most remote Alaska post offices from its list of proposed closures. These post offices have provided essential services for decades at relatively little cost. Their communities should not suffer …Postal Service buys Ringling office…
Postal patrons in Avon and Elliston expressed concerns about the proposed closing of their local post offices during recent public meetings. More: continued here
The postman never rings once, says disabled KarenThis is Total EssexA DISABLED woman who relies on Royal Mail for notice of her hospital appointments became baffled when she realised that her postman was coming to the door but not leaving any post. Karen Reed, of Meadgate Avenue, who suffers from diabetes and arthritis … More:…
Plans to pull down the multi-coloured Royal Mail sorting office and build a new Station Square will be looked at by Reading planners tomorrow. More: continued here
EBay Puts Start-Up at Heart of eCommerceWall Street Journal (blog)But the scary lift wasn't enough to put off eBay executives, who recently bought the company even before it had celebrated its second birthday. Rumors say they paid $20 million. Ron Gura will lead eBay's social commerce unit. …and more » More: continued here
Martinsburg post office on closure list; residents appealingWatertownDailyTimes.comMARTINSBURG — The US Postal Service plans to close its office in this Lewis County hamlet, but residents are appealing that decision. “Please consider this appeal as we have great pride in our Post Office and have always had a Post …Brooklyn Post Office to close in NovemberAndalusia…
New Yorker (blog) Fife postal annex serving carriersTheNewsTribune.comBut the US Postal Service doesn't expect to open a full-fledged post office in the city in the foreseeable future, despite Fife's long-held goal to have one. A new annex for carriers to pick up their mail opened in Fife on Monday. …The Rise and Fall of the…
EIGHTY-year-old Nicodemus Squire was hobbling the two-mile trek to the Point Hill Post Office in St Catherine yesterday to inquire about his PATH benefit when he received word that the facility was relocated to Lluidas Vale some seven miles away. … More: continued here
New Vastern Road project is revealedReading PostPlans to pull down the multi-coloured Royal Mail sorting office and build a new Station Square with a hotel, shops and housing will be looked at by Reading planners tomorrow. The site would be accessed from Caversham Road and Vastern Road, … More: continued here
The U.S. Post Office is dying a lingering death. Although a white-hair, I probably will live long enough to attend the wake and share my grief with the mourners. More: continued here