With recent stories about cars crashing into Post Offices– maybe it’s time to bring back “Drive-In Post Offices.” Ohio: Car crashes into Heath post office California: Car Crashes Into Walnut Creek Post Office Houston Drive-In, Texas, 1951 Granville W. Elder, acting postmaster of the Houston, Texas, Post Office, first experimented with a drive-in for customers […]
From the National League of Postmaster’s President’s Message: Delivery Unit Optimization (DUO) is being implemented at break neck speed and by Tuesday a new Power Point presentation will be on the web site. Review it, learn it and train other Postmasters on it. There are many impacts with DUO; pay, Postmaster level and the future […]
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 […]
Mr. Zip’s Tip: USPS saw a 248% increase in online Post Office Box renewals in Fiscal Year 2009. The U.S. Postal Service has incorporated improvements in its Post Office Boxes website to make it more user friendly in obtaining a Post Office box. The changes are based on a USPS usability study and include: A […]
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 […]
After posting the news article Behind the Scenes changes may be coming to post offices PostalReporter.com received the following information: The relocation of carriers to nearby cities is called “Delivery Unit Optimization” . This will cause affected carriers and some clerks to be excessed. Some clerk and supervisor positions will be abolished. The residual clerk […]
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 […]
Press Release issued by the office of Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s (D-Oh) Washington, Jul 14 – Today the House of Representatives unanimously approved Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) legislation to rename the Post Office at 13301 Smith Road in Cleveland, Ohio as the David John Donafee Post Office Building in honor of Mr. Donafee, a public servant […]
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 […]
Washington, DC – The Postal Regulatory Commission today extended by 30 days the initial comment and reply periods in its Investigation of Suspended Post Offices, Docket PI2010-1. Initial comments are now due by February 16, 2010; and reply comments are due by March 18, 2010. Order no. 389 is available on the Commission’s website, www.prc.gov, […]