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York Post Office statues moveYork Daily RecordFrom left, Andrew Biddix, Tyler Grimm and Larry Martin of Warners Moving and Storage remove one of the two statues from the York Post Office Thursday. The post office is selling the building. (YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS–JASON … More: continued here

Reuters Post office's plea: Stop Saturday mail deliverySioux Falls Argus LeaderHe said the post office often will do "last mile" deliveries for companies such as FedEx and UPS, who more often will bring parcels into rural post offices to get delivered. Katzer cited a March Postal Regulatory Commission report, which …

Royal Mail shakes up rosterPRWeek UKRoyal Mail is expected to drop Shine and 3 Monkeys from its lucrative PR roster after a long-running pitch process. The body that handles the national postal service is understood to have provisionally selected six agencies for its new roster: M&C … More: continued here

Reuters Postal Service threatens again to not pay retiree benefitsWashington Post (blog)30 to change a 2006 law requiring the post office to pay for future retiree benefits each year. Donahoe's predecessor, John E. Potter, last year also threatened not to pay future retiree benefits, arguing that the Postal Service couldn't …

The Calgary Stampeders and Toronto Argonauts have pulled off a major trade two weeks before the opening of their Canadian Football League training camps. More: continued here

LONDON: The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is looking at whether it should write off a significant amount of the Royal Mail’s debts to the National Loans Fund (NLF), according to people familiar with the matter. More: continued here

A Michigan man who won a $2 million lottery jackpot is still receiving food stamps. More: continued here

Reuters Next up on the bailout list: The mailman?Fortune (blog)The details for the latter arguments are contained in this 2010 report from the Office of Inspector General of the United States Postal Service. Here's what I learned from the report. In 1971, the Post Office Department of the US government …

A public meeting is set on a proposal by the U.S. Postal Service to move some mail processing operations at the Lincoln downtown post office to Omaha to lower costs and increase efficiency. More: continued here

Cora post office faces closure after 119 yearsPinedale RoundupThe Cora Post Office— the 119-year-old historic community center — is one of eight post offices in Wyoming facing a possible closure. Residents using the post office were notified earlier this month with a letter from the US Postal Service (USPS). …Citizens …