City fights plan to close Bradford Post OfficeEagle TribuneBy Shawn Regan sregan@eagletribune.com HAVERHILL — City leaders fear a plan to close the Bradford Post Office would inconvenience people in that part of the city and create traffic problems downtown, where the main post office is located. … More: continued here
Read More »Crockett post office on block
Charles and Betty Dix of Crockett have had the same post office box – No. 6 – for as long as they can remember. Now, however, they might have to turn in their key for a regular plastic mailbox at the end of the driveway. More: continued here
Read More »Audit finds Green Bay mail center insufficient for absorbing Oshkosh operation – Green Bay Press Gazette
Audit finds Green Bay mail center insufficient for absorbing Oshkosh operationGreen Bay Press GazetteBackground: The US Postal Service plans to close its Oshkosh mail processing center and move operations to Green Bay. What's new? An audit found the Green Bay site lacks enough space and is less efficient than the …
Read More »EBay attacks server virtualization with 100TB of SSD storage
Computerworld – When online auction site eBay had problems meeting the I/O storage demands of business units starved for more virtual machine (VM) deployments, its quality assurance division had an idea: swap out hard disk drive-based arrays with solid-state drive (SSD) storage. More: continued here
Read More »Johnson’s bill would tax sales by online retailers – Rapid City Journal
Los Angeles Times Johnson's bill would tax sales by online retailersRapid City JournalDennis Daugaard, the National Governor's Association and Amazon.com but opposition by eBay and a collection of advocacy groups. "Over the years, Main Street businesses in South Dakota have struggled to compete with Internet vendors who skirt sales tax …
Read More »Audit finds Green Bay mail center insufficient for absorbing Oshkosh operation – Oshkosh Northwestern
Audit finds Green Bay mail center insufficient for absorbing Oshkosh operationOshkosh NorthwesternBackground: The US Postal Service plans to close its Oshkosh mail processing center and move operations to Green Bay. What's new? An audit found the Green Bay site lacks enough space and is less efficient than the Oshkosh site. …
Read More »A look at the new US Merchant Marine Forever stamps – GCaptain (press release)
A look at the new US Merchant Marine Forever stampsGCaptain (press release)By gCaptain Staff Last week, the United States Postal Service issued 60 million Forever stamps commemorating the history of the US Merchant Marine. The stamps, illustrated by Dennis Lyall under the art direction of Carl Herrman, feature four vessels …
Read More »Postal Service considers four county closures
The Lingle post office might play a bigger role in the near future if the United States Postal Service has its say. The government entity is proposing a preliminary study to consider closing four Goshen County offices; Hawk Springs, Huntley, Jay Em and Veteran. More: continued here
Read More »Ceres Post Office, others could close
Charles and Betty Dix of Crockett have had the same post office box – No. 6 – for as long as they can remember. Now, however, they might have to turn in their key for a regular plastic mailbox at the end of the driveway. More: continued here
Read More »Family abducted in Drogheda post office raid – RTE.ie
BBC News Family abducted in Drogheda post office raidRTE.ieAn official from An Post, his partner and their child were abducted from a house in Co Louth before around €500000 was taken from a post office. A number of men, at least one of whom was armed, entered their home in …
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