USPS review process examined approximately 3,300 stations and branches in urban and suburban areas across the country As a result of a study started in 2009, the U.S. Postal Service has made the decision to close the Cumminsville Finance Station, 4122 Hamilton Ave., the East End Finance Station, 3923 Eastern Ave., and the Reed Hartman Finance Station, […]
The Postal Service has announced that retail operations at the Strip Station office, located at 3100 Industrial Road in Las Vegas, will close as of end of the business day on Friday Feb. 25, 2011. The Post Office Box operation will still remain in operation for the immediate future, but the plans are to close […]
The Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe reports: After years of using a confusing and laborious 21-month process panned by customers and Congress as too secretive and inconsistent, the mail agency is now relying on a computerized system that enables officials to review and determine a location’s fate in no more than five months. If plans succeed, […]
Closing post offices can be tricky—and has already landed the U.S. Postal Service in hot water. The Postal Regulatory Commission expects to rule “very soon” on its investigation into whether the postal service has been improperly using reasons such as lease expirations to suspend service and to close many small, rural post offices, Norman Scherstrom, […]
The U.S. Postal Service will begin the process of closing as many as 2,000 postal offices in March and will review 16,000 more — half of all existing post offices — that are losing money, according to the The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. Postal Service plays two roles in America: an agency that keeps […]
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 […]
With about 1,200 murals and 200 sculptures in Post Offices nationwide, USPS is the custodian of the largest public art collection owned by any federal agency. The artwork was created from 1934-1943 during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal initiative. With the nation facing 25 percent unemployment in 1933, the New Deal sponsored several art […]
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 […]