USPS moves ahead with plan to end mail processing in Grenada, MS

No Grenadian should lose their job, officials say, even as the United States Post Office plans to close processing operations in the Lake City next year. Processing personnel should be offered other jobs, perhaps in other locations, once the downsizing takes effect in 2015, said a spokesperson for the postal service. The USPS announced in…

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Netflix already stopped mailing DVDs on Saturdays, but you probably didn’t notice

The USPS may not have gone forward with its plans to kill Saturday mail delivery, but Netflix isn’t waiting. A few customers have noticed it’s no longer processing shipments on Saturdays, opting for a five day schedule instead. Company spokesman Joris Evers tells Engadget that it’s been transitioning in that direction over the past year…

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USPS Cutting Hours at Rockingham Post Offices

(July 15, 2014) ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WHSV)– The U.S. Postal Service is thinking about shortening the hours for few post offices. When people living in Criders showed up to their post office Tuesday, they were given pamphlets with information on how much the building is actually being used. It’s not the only place in the…

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USPS: ‘Good for our business’ – PMG gives update on Staples relationship

Today’s customers demand more convenience, and the Postal Service is ready to offer it, with innovative programs for access to postal products and services. “Customers want one-stop shopping,” PMG Pat Donahoe says in his latest video message to employees. “That’s why major retailers are adding services in their retail stores, like dry cleaning, pharmacies, banking…

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USPS BOG Nominee Vicki Kennedy Testifies on Capitol Hill

(July 15, 2014) WASHINGTON — Nearly five years after her husband, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, passed away, Vicki Kennedy appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to testify about her nomination to the board of governors of the U.S. Postal Service. President Obama nominated Vicki Kennedy to the position in February,…

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Will Massachusetts Political Candidates Boycott Staples?

Political campaigns sure do buy a lot of office supplies, but it looks like some of their business will be going elsewhere. Political campaigns buy a lot of office supplies, and here in Massachusetts many of those purchases take place at Framingham-based Staples. Candidates for statewide offices spent close to $30,000 at Staples, combined, the…

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(AUDIO) Postal Service Privatization Brings Staples Boycott

Play Audio: (July 14, 2014) ST. PAUL, Minn. – Organized labor officials say putting postal service in Staples stores is a move to privatize a well-loved public institution and a threat to middle-class jobs. Peggy Whitney, business agent for the Minneapolis Area local of the American Postal Workers Union, said a secret, no-bid deal between…

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Post office orders Arbor Circle residents in Liberty, OH to install curbside mail boxes

(July 14, 2014) LIBERTY, OH – The Youngstown Post Office told township neighbors on Arbor Circle Saturday it was stopping their home mail delivery Monday unless they had curbside mailboxes in place by then. Approximately 20 people appealed for help to the township trustees at their Monday meeting. “I talked to the secretary of the post…

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