The Postal Service News

Jackson's downtown post office is being reviewed by the U.S. Postal Service for possible consolidation.

To increase convenience and access to postal services, a new Contract Postal Unit with virtually all postal services will open seven days a week in Cary Monday at Dolphin's Mart, Highway 55 and Common Hills Road.

The owners of Arnold Aviation say the U.S. Postal Service has awarded the air taxi business a four-year contract to continue delivering mail into the remote Idaho backcountry.

Three decades, 15-cent stamps, 81,000 work hours and eight U.S. presidents have come and gone since Ron Skovron of Newton first reported for work for the United States Postal Service.

The Ovington Retail Station in Bay Ridge is just one of many that the U.S. Postal Service is considering for closure throughout Brooklyn, according to President Jim Musumeci of the Brooklyn American Postal Workers Union.

The U.S. Postal Service is offering interested parties the chance to put their stamp on a piece of Chicago history.

Anyone dashing to the mail box to get a card, letter or bill out on time may have to move a little quicker.

The head of the U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the head of the Italian police and the chief executive officer of the Italian Postal Service to set up an international task force to combat cyber crime.

First Published: June 2009 Efforts to eliminate the normal business deduction for the cost of advertising prescription drugs surfaced as a possible way to pay for health care reform in both the House of Representatives and the Senate last week.

On her second solo record, 'Acid Tongue,' Jenny Lewis showcases her sharp wit via some acerbic and hard-hitting lyrics.

BUFFALO, N.Y. Press release - All Post Offices will be open Friday, July 3, but many will shorten retail lobby hours and close at noon.

A first-day sale and souvenir postmark for the Postal Services new duck stamp will be available from 8 a.m. to noon Friday at the Bass Pro Shops store in Independence.The federal duck stamp program provides funds for waterfowl conservation.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, wants your mail carrier to count you. Chaffetz said Wednesday he will introduce legislation to marry the U.S. Postal Service temporarily with the Census Bureau so that the postal workers can help with the decennial count of how many people live in America.

The U.S. Postal Service will have a temporary postal station in front of the National Soaring Museum on Harris Hill on Saturday as part of the International Vintage Sailplane Meet.

Revenues sharply dropping and mail volume dwindling, the U.S. Postal Service may close thousands of post office branches across the country, including several in Paterson.

The following editorial first appeared in the Washington Post: T he post office may be the next too-big thing.

After 30 years in the same location, the Nora branch of the U.S. Postal Service will close, said spokeswoman Donna Hoffman.

The new U.S. Post Office on North Sea Road in Southampton Village is due to open on July 13, according to a Postal Service spokesman.

Q. I've noticed that the trucks our mail carriers use have no license plates or inspection stickers on them.

The U.S. Postal Service marked 31 post offices in northern New Jersey as possible branches to close in an internal Postal Service memo, a report in the New York Times said.