The fraught efforts to part-privatise Royal Mail encountered further difficulties yesterday after investors in TNT, the frontrunner to buy a stake in Britain’s state-owned postal operator, cautioned against the move. More: continued here
3rd Circuit: When Serving Post Office, Don't Rely on Mailbox RuleAbove the Law, DCIf you're filing a claim against the postal service, don't just drop it in the mail because the courts won't apply the ordinary presumption that a letter mailed is a letter received. In a holding fraught with irony, the 3rd US Circuit Court…
Does Proctor's future include a post office?Duluth News Tribune, MNThe US Postal Service has no immediate plans to shutter the Proctor Post Office, Duluth's interim Postmaster Arby Humphrey said, though the facility is on a list of possible closures. The US Postal Service has no immediate plans to shutter the Proctor … More: continued here
Potential post office closure KUCB News UNALASKA, AK (2009-05-11)KIAL, AKThe United States Postal Service is considering closing one of the post offices in town but no decision has been made yet. Postal Service communications specialist Ernie Swanson said a special committee is considering the consolidation of post offices … More: continued here
Post Office Removing Some Neighborhood BoxesWCCO, MNIn the past year, the US Post Office has removed 400 mailboxes in Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, and not everyone postal customer is happy about that. Barry Margolis doesn't own a car and used to ride his bike to the corner mailbox to mail his bills. … More: continued here
Bidding to cut costs, eBay closes a customer service center in …InternetRetailer.com, ILMoving to make good on last month's promise to trim costs, eBay Inc. has announced plans to close a Vancouver, Canada, customer service center that employs 700 workers. The facility will close by Sept. 30. The online auction giant says it will add an…
CRAIN'S BLOG: Move over, eBay — Detroit Metro online auction site …Crain’s Detroit Business, MIForget Target and Bed, Bath & Beyond. The hot new gift registry is Detroit Metropolitan Airport's new online lost-and-found auction. Like every other major airport, Metro piles up a lot of stuff left by passengers, and the facility itself uses up a…
Post office in Harmons set to openDeseret News, UTTAYLORSVILLE — The US Postal Service is opening a full-service contract post office inside the Harmons grocery store, 5454 S. Redwood Road, on Thursday, May 14, at 10 am It is among the first contract postal locations in the Salt Lake area to have the … More: continued…
Food Stamps The New Cash Tender For North CaroliniansWFMY News 2, NCNorth Carolina– Since the start of the recession, North Carolinians have received $1.6 billion in food stamp benefits. These payments, in turn, have generated $2.8 billion in economic activity across all 100 of the state's counties. … More: continued here
Postal service: Worker stole $20000 in stamps for mortgageCNN(CNN) — Postal authorities say a Michigan postal worker has admitted to stealing some $20000 worth of first-class stamps since September and trying to sell them to online auction-site customers to help pay his mortgage. An arrest warrant has been … More: continued here