Thompson plans rally for local post office
October 18, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
It’s another Friday night rally in Thompson, only this one isn’t for a football team or a political candidate. It’s at the Post Office. It’s for the Post Office. Continue Reading
Hoeven: GF, Minot processing facilities to remain open, Devils Lake to be reevaluatedThe Senate offered a lifeline to the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, voting to give the struggling agency an $11 billion cash infusion while delaying controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending Saturday delivery.
The U.S. Postal System is considering a plan that would keep the Grand Forks mail processing center open but close its Devils Lake center, merging the two operations. The USPS announced Monday that it has begun the evaluation process for the plan.
Each December, a sleepy one-man post office in rural Indiana roars to life as thousands of holiday greeting cards arrive from around the world, each seeking the outpost’s unique red-inked imprint that pays homage to the hamlet’s biblical name.
Mail will arrive at homes 30 to 60 minutes later. And the post office will be open two hours less on weekdays.
Not long before the Postal Service released its long list of communities targeted across the state, Delta Air Lines announced it is withdrawing service from five cities in northern Minnesota. More ominous still, the federal government released the findings of Census 2010, and the verdict for rural Minnesota was sobering.
The quaint Lake George post office, the town’s most identifiable landmark, is one of 88 Minnesota Postal Services outlets targeted to close or be converted to a “village outlet.”
Dovray, Kenneth offices targeted
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