Transient residents required to pay for P.O. Box

Posted on September 11, 2015September 11, 2015 by 21cpw

By Jess Field – September 10, 2015 The United States Postal Office (USPS) considers transient individuals to be anyone living in a moveable structure. Therefore, according to USPS policy, residents in Petersburg living in motor homes or boats are considered transient, no matter how long they have lived in the Borough, even if the structure…

Package delivery could be casualty of postal woes

Posted on May 14, 2014May 14, 2014 by 21cpw

Door-to-door deliveries for packages could become a thing of the past as the U.S. Postal Service looks for ways to cut costs — even as officials concede they don’t know if the cost etimates they are using are reliable. USPS estimated that it costs roughly $380 annually per delivery point to deliver a package to…