Newspaper article from our research archive:
|
|
Life's idyllic for Torreys of Torrey
- Article from:
-
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
-
October 28, 2004
- Author:
- Cathy Free Deseret Morning News
|
Copyright informationCopyright 2004 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
Rob Torrey didn't move to the town of Torrey five years ago with
the intention of gaining his own ZIP code. But that's exactly what
happened.
Rob is now the postmaster of Torrey, Utah, 84775, a pretty little
town just outside Capitol Reef National Park, lined with stately
cottonwood trees and home to about 160 lucky residents.
When he isn't stuffing post office boxes with mail and canceling
letters, Rob also helps his wife, Diane, run the Torrey Trading Post -
- a gift shop that sells everything from arrowheads to Zuni jewelry.
Fifteen years ago, he couldn't have imagined giving up his busy life
in Salt Lake City to make small talk at the Torrey Post Office with
locals and give directions to ...
|
Villagers go to town in post office protest
Herald Express (Torquay UK);
September 9, 2008 ;
LAURA DALE;
579 words
......protesters descended on Newton Abbot Post Office to demonstrate how difficult life will...potential problems if their village post office closes down. They made the two and a...Cost Cutters in Queen Street, where the post office is located. Protest organiser Liz Taylor...
|
|
It's not fair to shut this post office too
Bristol Evening Post;
August 9, 2004 ;
430 words
......gathered to protest today outside a post office earmarked for closure. About a dozen protesters lined the streets outside the post office in Filton Avenue, Horfield. Pensioner...Lockleaze, held a placard which said: "This post office is vital to OAPs. Help us to save our...
|
|
Stamp down on post office closure
Bristol Evening Post;
August 9, 2004 ;
325 words
...Campaigners were planning to protest today outside a post office earmarked for closure. More than 500 people have signed petitions calling for Post Office Ltd to drop its plans to shut the post office in Filton Avenue, Horfield. Bristol city councillor...
|
|
Country Matters: Post office? It's next to the potatoes
The Independent - London;
June 25, 1994 ;
NEIL LYNDON;
787 words
...THE post office in our Suffolk village shop is open...Street has been closed. The biggest post office in the main market town serving a couple...Ipswich, our county town, where the main post office, a Corinthian horror described by Pevsner...
|
|
Bungling bosses wipe a big town off their map; ENGLAND'S 50th LARGEST...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);
March 28, 2004 ;
471 words
...Byline: JO THORNHILL The Post Office, still reeling from outrage over a wave...widespread branch network. And a bungle by Post Office bosses that led to the closure of the largest post office in Romford, Essex, last week, has done nothing...
|
|
How to make a success of running a local post office: post offices are an...
Grocer;
April 19, 2008 ;
570 words
......Holborn Owner, Holborns We took over the post office in our village in 2006 after the original...money to make space for it. Having a post office is important to a c-store like ours...shop's place in the community. If the post office had gone, people would have had to go...
|
|
Fighting the new wreckers&; Pictures: RICHARD LAPPAS ANGER: Peter Allen is...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);
August 31, 2008 ;
784 words
......STEPHEN WOMACK THE current wave of post office closures has sparked anger and protest...classic example of how the value of a post office cannot be calculated solely in pounds...who is leading the fight to keep the post office open, says: 'Altarnun is ranked as one...
|
|
Post Office Rescued By Letters; Dayton Residents Wrote and Petitioned
The Washington Post;
April 15, 1993 ;
Molly Sinclair;
735 words
......celebrating the survival of its one-room post office, a tiny white building on Ten Oaks Road...Carol Grant, who lives next door to the post office and goes there daily to pick up mail...signing campaign to save the Dayton post office had paid off. Bartlett, the freshman...
|
|
Honours For Top Post Office(R) Branches.
PR Newswire Europe;
October 24, 2005 ;
622 words
...LONDON, October 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Post Office(R) branches have beaten stiff competition...the country. The prize for best sub Post Office(R) went to West Monkseaton branch near...took the title of best directly managed Post Office(R) branch. The judges were particularly...
|
|
'We'll pay pounds75,000 to keep post office open'
Citizen Gloucestershire, The;
May 14, 2008 ;
473 words
...A LAST-ditch bid to save Uplands Post Office has been launched by Stroud Town Council...000 on the table' as a challenge to Post Office Ltd to keep the Uplands branch open...consider running a rival 'community post office' at Uplands Post Office, Springfield...
|
|
Steps should be taken now to safeguard post office network.(Business)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);
February 14, 2007 ;
622 words
...Byline: By Russell Lawson The post office network is extensive. There are 8,000...many other outlets. Most recently, the Post Office lost the contract to supply TV licences...policies has meant that since 1997, 6,000 post office branches have closed. This equates to...
|
|
Still time to join fight for village post office
Herald Express (Torquay UK);
September 11, 2008 ;
384 words
...The case for keeping a post office in Abbotskerswell has taken steps...There were two representatives from Post Office Ltd, one from Postwatch, parish...the importance of writing to the Post Office to help to save it from closure...
|
|
18 miles to pick up a pension; Sacking closes rural post office.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);
November 25, 2006 ;
561 words
......REMOTE rural community has lost its post office after its postmistress was sacked. The...Scotland, closed two weeks ago after Post Office Ltd terminated the contract of postmistress...Smith. But last night a spokesman for Post Office Ltd refused to reveal why she had been...
|
See all results.
Or, try our
Advanced Search.
|