Post Office to close 13 branches (BBC News)

The Sedalia Post Office will host a passport fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Postmaster Robert Ferguson recommends that people come in as early as possible to secure a new or renewed U.S. passport, as applications may take up to two months to process and return. More: continued here

Demonstrators rallied outside Portland's main post office to demand that Congress refund the money that it allegedly stole from the USPS. More: continued here

'Neither rain nor sleet nor snow' does not apply to Post OfficeThe Laconia Daily SunI grew up in the country. Real rural spaces like Gilmanton and Sanbornton. Nothing at all like Laconia. I bought my home in Gilford because it is a nice, quiet country town with quiet roads. Peaceful. I didn't want to live…

North, Cordova postal personnel shifted in streamlining moveThe Times and DemocratLarry Hardy/T&D A reorganization of the US Postal Service resources will relocate rural carriers from the Cordova Post Office to Orangeburg and carriers from the North Post Office to Swansea. Rural carriers at the post offices in North and Cordova have …and more » More: continued…

Wall Street Journal The biggest IPO of 2015 is a post office, but not any ordinary post officeBusiness InsiderAll of this may seem odd: how can a mail delivery company be worth so much when counterparts like the US Postal Service and the UK's recently privatized Royal Mail are struggling? It's because Japan Post is…

A Howard soldier who made the ultimate sacrifice is being honored with the naming of a local post office. More: continued here