Villagers go to town in post office protest

Herald Express (Torquay UK);  September 9, 2008 ;     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...

Change Your Mailing Address Online.

Kiplinger's Retirement Report;  March 1, 2004 ;     31 words ...HOUSING Change your address without a trip to the post office. You can change your mailing address online at moversguide.usps.com. Call 888-255-7982 to have your magazines forwarded for up to 60 days.

Country Matters: Post office? It's next to the potatoes

The Independent - London;  June 25, 1994 ;     700+ 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...

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...

The Middleburg Post Office: Location, Location, Location

The Washington Post;  December 3, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Middleburg mailing address that the...times as many post office boxes as residents. The post office lobby, in...pride in the mailing-address phenomenon...What's the mailing address?' " Marshall...are 1,856 post office boxes in...

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...

POST OFFICE CAMPAIGNERS HAVE LOST THEIR BATTLE; 10,000-name petition fails...

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  July 29, 2003 ;     416 words ...Byline: Mark Stead THE Post Office has been accused of ignoring its...from people who use Albany Road Post Office - including a petition signed by...will lose its status as a Crown post office when Vias Sharma, trading as DVS...

Post Office gets 1bn pounds for 'fresh start'

The Scotsman;  December 8, 1998 ;     567 words ...THE Post Office will have an extra GBP 1 billion to...series of measures designed to give the Post Office a "fresh start". The immediate effect...per cent reduction in the money the Post Office gives to the Treasury for the 1999...

Retirement means uphill battle to save post office ; There has been a post...

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  July 11, 2008 ;     644 words ...There has been a post office in the sprawling Townstal residential...elderly residents stranded - the nearest post office being at the bottom of a steep hill. Opponents of the closure want Post Office Ltd to reconsider its position and have...

New ZIP, post office coming?

Progress-Index, The Petersburg, Va.;  July 14, 2008 ;     341 words ......of the county to bring a post office, and most likely a new mailing address, to the area. Other than...10 miles. The idea of a post office for the fast-growing northern...they would like to see a post office in that area," he said...continues to grow, having a ...

Post office closure to 'rip out the heart' of village As news of wholesale...

Derby Evening Telegraph;  October 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ...As news of wholesale post office closures across Derbyshire hit home...Egginton fear that the closure of their post office will mean "the death of village...is part of nationwide cuts by the Post Office. Their protest comes during the...

From carrots to currencies A thriving farm shop now sells stamps and even...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  November 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: TOBY WALNE THE local Post Office is at the heart of community life. When a branch...week to gauge how communities are coping. ASSINGTON POST OFFICE, SUFFOLK ASSINGTON POST OFFICE, SUFFOLK THERE is certainly no sign of the death...

Villagers to meet post office bosses

Herald Express (Torquay UK);  August 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Villagers today hope they can persuade Post Office bosses to keep their local branch open...Campaigners in Abbotskerswell are meeting Post Office Ltd representatives in a bid to try...under-threat branch open. Earlier this month Post Office Ltd formally started consultation into...

Post Office branches go on-line with UKVillages.

M2 Presswire;  October 20, 2000 ;     700+ words ...M2 PRESSWIRE-20 October 2000-POST OFFICE: Post Office branches go on-line with UKVillages (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21102000 All Post Office branches on the British mainland can now reach into the...