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The Scottsburg post office can be a lonely place. Even — perhaps, especially — during the holidays. While some post offices are bursting with people and parcels, the office here, about the size of a moderately priced Winnebago, is not bursting with anything of the like More: continued here
(The Associated Press) Operation Santa is resuming at the post office. The program in which volunteers reply to children’s letters to Santa was suspended after what the Postal Service said was a “privacy breach” in New York on Tuesday. In that incident a postal worker recognized one of the volunteers as a registered sex offender….
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