Overlooked Orleans: Babbitt was a post office pioneerThe Daily News OnlineWilliam Jenks Babbitt ran that post office out of his log cabin home starting in 1816. Born in Providence, R.I. on Sept. 15, 1786, Babbitt learned the blacksmith trade in his father's shop. In 1810, he came to the unbroken wilderness of “the Genesee ……

The Real Deal Magazine Proposed Peter Stuyvesant Post Office site height increase rankles residentsThe Real Deal MagazineResidents and neighborhood activists are condemning the developers over a zoning variance they requested that would raise the proposed height of their rental building at the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office site to 12 stories from eight. The developers say…

Post office inspector finds psychedelic drugs, cocaine in box heading to KapaaHawaii News NowA Kauai man has been arrested for allegedly mailing various drugs to his home in Kapaa. Donovan Cameron-Ray, 22, was arrested on May 16 after a U.S. Postal Inspector notified Kauai Police Officers of a box containing 300 XANAX bars, nearly 200…

WGNO New Orleans area post offices renamed for fallen NOPD officer and civil rights legendWGNONEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – The U.S. Post Office on Chef Menteur Highway will be named after fallen NOPD Officer Daryle Holloway. Holloway was shot and killed in the line of duty in June 2015. He was driving a handcuffed prisoner, Travis…