Town fights post office closure (BBC News)

RETIRED radio mechanic John Deeble last night claimed exposure to deadly asbestos dust in a Northumberland post office more than four decades ago has left him with terminal cancer. More: continued here

Milltown post office reopens buildingEast Brunswick SentinelMilltown Post Office employee Chun Leung helps customers at the Milltown post office, which reopened on Jan. 28. The post office has been closed since Tropical Storm Irene floodwaters damaged the building in August 2011. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff … More: continued here

Curbed Boston Financial District's 50 Post Office Square getting a glassy new lobbyCurbed BostonThe office tower at 100 Federal Street is getting a glass atrium on the sidewalk, and the owners of One Post Office Square are sheathing that 41-story commercial building in glass, with a three-story glass pavilion at the tower's base. That pavilion…

New Jersey Herald A Look Back, July 19: Newton post office, opera house and New Jersey Herald …New Jersey HeraldThe services of J.V. Nichols, an architect, were secured to design the new limestone trimmed brick building, which was built by Robert Baughan and Andrew Price for $18,500. The interior fittings for the library and reading…

Emily Krafjack, of Mehoopany Twp., will fill the new post in the Community Planning Office.Commissioner Tony Litwin said Krafjack has already been “doing the job as a volunteer.”The County Community and Municipal Environmental Liaison, will be part-tim More: continued here

As the U.S. Postal Service debates a proposal to layoff thousands of workers, Clarksville, Md., is dealing with the reality of losing a neighborhood post office. The facility on Auto Drive shut its doors for the last time Friday. More: continued here