The Postal Service is planning to relocate the current Madison Capital Station Post Office, located at 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, in Madison, Wisconsin, to a yet-to be-determined location within the same ZIP Code and service area. The post office is currently located in the City-County Building in the heart of the city. There will be a meeting about … Read More
Postal Service plans to close Washington St PO in Buffalo
The U.S. Post Office is planning to close the Ellicott Station post office on Washington Street in Buffalo, sell the building, and move retail services to a smaller, leased location. Representatives of the Postal Service will present a proposal at the Common Council Chambers at Niagara Square on January 26. The Washington Street facility was built in 1978, but the Postal … Read More
District Court refuses to reconsider opinion in USPS v. SCE
Today is the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, the Nation’s first Postmaster General, but U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg has given the Postal Service little reason to celebrate. On Thursday, Judge Boasberg denied the Postal Service’s Motion for Reconsideration, which asked him to revise the Opinion he issued back in September in the case of USPS v. Southern California Edison … Read More
Your Walmart closing? There’s always your local post office
Whenever the Postal Service wants to close a post office, it tells affected customers about all the “alternative access” points in the area where they will continue to be able to do some postal business — like buying stamp booklets at Walmart. The Postal Service usually includes a list and map of all these alternatives in the discontinuance notice (as … Read More
Why the Post Office Makes America Great
I WAS transported recently to a place that is as enchanting to me as any winter wonderland: my local post office. In line, I thought fondly of the year I came to this country from Turkey as an adult and discovered the magic of reliable mail service. Dependable infrastructure is magical not simply because it works, but also because it … Read More
Trucks on fire: USPS Long Life Vehicles outlive their lifespan
With over 211,000 vehicles, the Postal Service operates the largest civilian fleet in the world. About 190,000 vehicles are used to collect and deliver the mail, and about 140,000 of them are Grumman-built Long Life Vehicles (LLVs), the iconic postal trucks that are a ubiquitous presence on America’s streets and roads. These LLVs are getting on in years, and it’s long … Read More
Postal Banking Worked—Let’s Bring It Back
Nation Magazine has an article on postal banking by University of Georgia Law Professor Mehrsa Baradaran, the author of the 2015 book “How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy." It's about how regulated, federally subsidized banks serve the wealthy and the middle class, while a Wild West hodgepodge of unregulated lenders serves everybody else. Read more.
Blencoe, IA post office reopens after temporary (two-year) suspension
The Blencoe Post Office is again open for business, nearly two years after the small Monona County town "temporarily" lost its post office for an emergency suspension. The Post Office reopened on Wednesday in a new location across the street from the former Post Office at 501 Main St. The U.S. Postal Service temporarily shut down the post office in … Read More
‘Emergency suspension’ closes the doors to PO in Nemo, TX
Empty, bare and “For Rent” is how the building formerly utilized as the Nemo Post Office now sits. There are rumors – depending on the generation asked – of the post office previously being housed in a nearby corner store and even those who claim it was once housed in a house. Either of which may be a necessary place … Read More
Downtown Lee Summit MO post office closing, reopening in annex
Signs at the Lee Summit, MO, post office confirm what residents have been expecting. The downtown post office is closing and being "relocated" to an inconveniently located carrier annex on the outskirts of town. “It’s disappointing the postal office is being taken away from downtown and moved to an inconvenient location for many residents of Lee’s Summit,” District 1 Councilman … Read More
Historic Reno NV post office to become major retail outlet & food marketplace
A major retailer may soon be coming to downtown Reno. And officials say it’s going to be a big game changer for the area. The national retail chain will be going on the first floor of the former Main U.S. Post Office off Virginia Street. “We’ve tried to slowly release information and keep that secret, almost like a speak easy is … Read More
Historic Bethesda MD post office to become fitness center
The new yoga and fitness studio that will eventually call the historic Bethesda U.S. Post Office home is setting up a temporary pop-up studio at the Bethesda Crescent building at 7475 Wisconsin Ave. Bridges Fitness & Yoga owner Alain Cohen said in an email Monday the business plans to use the pop-up studio to teach a range of classes and to inform … Read More
Seniors Occupy Harlem Post Office To Demand Better Service
A dozen senior citizens, including State Sen. Bill Perkins and Assemblyman Keith Wright, marched on the Manhattanville Post Office on 125th Street In New York to protest of their lack of dedicated senior windows and benches to sit on.“What do we want? A senior window,” and “When do we want it open? All day long,” the grey brigade shouted as they marched in circles in the post office … Read More
The Postal Service opens Round 3 in the fight over the exigent rate increase
Yesterday the Postal Service filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, arguing that the Postal Regulatory Commission was wrong in its most recent ruling on the exigent rate increase. The Postal Service wants the case remanded to the Commission for further review so that it can renew its arguments for an extension of the 4.3 … Read More
