The Colorado Springs, Colorado Police Department issued the following information on December 10, 2010 On Friday, Dec. 10 at approximately 7:15pm, the US Post Office in the shopping center at 12225 Voyager Parkway was robbed. An unknown male, approximately 6 feet tall and approximately 200 pounds, wearing a black hoodie, black pants and an orange […]
“Police removed an SUV that crashed into a Post Office in Roosevelt, Long Island, just before 7 a.m. Monday. The car broke through the wall of the building, bringing down bricks and cinderblock with it. A postal worker, Terry Owens of Levittown, N.Y., normally would have been at his desk where the car crashed, but […]
The post office in the western North Dakota town of Dunn Center is closing because the postmaster resigned and the U.S. Postal Service can’t find someone to fill the position. Spokesman Pete Nowacki tells The Dickinson Press that the future of the facility isn’t clear. He says the Postal Service is not looking to close […]
From the National League Of Postmasters: Status: Urgent. Issue: Fresh efforts are underway in Congress to close small rural post offices. These efforts encompass not only eliminating existing statutory protections against closing small rural post offices solely for operating at a deficit, but also eliminating the Postal Service’s statutory mandate to provide a maximum degree […]
From the National League of Postmasters September 10, 2010 Draft legislative provisions are floating around the Senate that 1) eliminate the prohibition against closing, for financial reasons only, small rural post offices and 2) gut the statutory Post Office Closing Provisions that are designed to protect rural communities. The League believes that such provisions are […]
U.S. National Park Sites Included WASHINGTON — From Dallas to Detroit, Nome to San Juan, and 115 national parks, memorials and historical sites in between, recycling mail at Post Offices has just gotten more convenient. With more than 10,000 locations across the country, nearly 50 percent more than last year, it’s even easier to be […]
For Immediate Release August 10, 2010 Washington, DC – Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) today called on the Untied States Postal Service (USPS) to enter into an agreement with a willing landholder and take necessary steps to ensure funding is in place to begin site development for a new post office in Willow, New York. The […]
Among the many mysterious curiosities within the Presidio is the cause of the long lines at its tiny outpost of the United States Postal Service. The Presidio post office shares an historic building at the Presidio Main Post with a small branch of First Republic Bank. The Presidio post office is very popular on the […]
WASHINGTON — More than 200,000 tons, and counting. That’s how much paper, plastics and other waste the U.S. Postal Service recycled in 2009, representing a decrease in its greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 1.67 million barrels of oil. An integral part of that undertaking is the Post Office Box Lobby Recycling program which is expanding […]
APWU News Postal employees in small offices whose hours have been reduced while managerial hours have been increased are being asked to complete and return a union-sponsored questionnaire [PDF] on the subject. Work-hours for part-time flexible clerks at many small offices have been slashed, APWU President William Burrus noted in a column in the January/February […]