Office-supply giant Staples has been struggling recently due to the secular decline of major categories like PCs, ink, and paper. North American comparable-store sales declined 4% last year. With sales falling, Staples has found that it has far too much space in its stores, and it is therefore looking to downsize to smaller formats. In…
The Renfro Valley, KY, Village Post Office (VPO) set a record when it opened last month, just days after negotiations for the new location got underway. It began when Kentuckiana District Village Post Office Coordinator Nick Walker learned the Renfro Valley Post Office was closing, which would have left the historic town with no postal…
Hawaii recently said aloha to its first Village Post Office (VPO), which opened in a variety store in Haiku, a community on Maui. The VPO is part of Hanzawaâs Variety Store, which opened in 1915. âThe Haiku Post Office serves such a large area that some of our customers must make a long drive,â said…
The nationâs first mobile Village Post Office (VPO) recently rolled into Dallas District. The âVPO on wheelsâ is part of the Hummingbird Market, owned by Pam Slate, the widow of a Marine Corps veteran. The market sells food grown by veterans who participate in a farm cooperative, as well as gifts made by veterans. Originally,…
The United States Postal Service introduced yet another program in July 2011 to sell stamps somewhere other than a normal post office. Located primarily in small towns, Village Post Offices have only two missions: to sell booklets of stamps and to have Priority Mail flat-rate boxes available to take. The VPO has no scales to…
