Post Office to close 25 branches (BBC News)

Bar-restaurant plan could breathe new life into old Post OfficeThis Is LancashireA “RED letter” day beckons for Bury's former post office in Crompton Street, which could reopen as a bar-restaurant 15 years after it closed its doors. And the new owner of the distinctive building is confident that such a development will help breathe …Bury…

A 70-year-old Tucson, Ariz., man has been charged with attempting to rob the Lenexa post office Wednesday morning. More: continued here

Manchester Post Office Remains Open, City Administrator ResignsPatch.comManchester aldermen pass the 2012 budget, the city administrator resigns and the post office will remain open. By Gabrielle Biondo Manchester City Administrator Ed Blattner announced he is resigning from that position. At Monday night's Manchester …and more » More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk The flight to safety is paved with goldScotsman, United Kingdom –4 hours agoThe move makes the Post Office, along with Anglo Irish Bank and Bank of Ireland, one of the cast-iron savings environments – unless the UK government …Post Office Savings Accounts are New Safe HavenQCKExodus as UK savers shift to Irish safe havenFinancial TimesRock turns…

BBC News Masked men stage armed robbery at Strathaven post office – BBC …BBC NewsTwo men escaped with a five-figure sum of cash after the robbery at a post office in Strathaven.Police descend on Strathaven after armed robbery at Post Office …Scottish Daily RecordGun cops scrambled to early morning armed robbery at Strathaven …The Scottish…

REDLANDS: Focus intensifies on post office as museumPress-EnterprisePost offie boxes line a wall at the US Post Office on Brookside Avenue in Redlands. BY JAN SEARS Word that the US Postal Service is planning to sell Redlands' historic main post office building has prompted a flurry of interest, including an item on …and more » More:…