For many, the local post office is a souvenir of an America they like to remember.
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The watchdog wants 95% of all local post delivered within one working day.
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So as you crowd your local post office this holiday season, look around and realize that the clock is ticking.
Mr Thomas said that one possibility would be integrating local post office services with existing shops and pubs in rural areas.
They exchanged so much sterling into euros that Blenkinsop's local post office won an award for the amount it turned over.
The local post office is only open 3 mornings a week, and it is over 2 miles to any local doctor.
Keith Yoakum and other Hemet High heroes will be soon be memorialized, when the Veterans of Foreign Wars name the local post after them.
The closure of the local post office also led to far fewer opportunities for social interaction, with people reporting an increase in isolation and loneliness.
To own a piece of this technological history, Brits must traipse to their local post office or newsagents and ask for the Great British Railway set of stamps.
UBS, preferring to keep their cash in local post-office accounts.
Customers too busy to go to the local post office themselves may hand over their passbooks to visiting salesmen, who will arrange a new account for them at no extra charge.
In response, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe plans to close 3, 700 post offices, many in small rural communities where the local post office is their logistical supply line to the larger world.
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The local post-secondary schools work together.
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The local Post Office, of course.
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And, specifically, does he agree -- or does he agree with the approach taken that some people in rural areas object to, and that is they -- that they are being inordinately asked to bear a greater burden by having their local post offices closed under the plan that was put forward today?
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He launched the Serve.gov platform to make it easier for Americans to find and post local volunteer opportunities.
Anyone can post local fundraising events or meetings with ease.
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It embeds post-office workers deep in local communities, and gives the post-office customer relationships that commercial banks would die for.
Since the levees collapsed, I've been reading the local newspaper, the Times-Picayune, watching and listening to the local media, which, post-disaster, have rediscovered their mission to make local news more than a recitation of the previous day's murders, car crashes and celebrity misbehaviors.
People also use the site to make recommendations of local businesses or to post classifieds.
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The possible move has provoked a campaign to keep the hospital drama in Bristol by local newspaper the Evening Post.
The site is adding a dedicated Crime and Safety section for people to post about local crime and other concerns.
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Many families count on those refunds to pay bills, and the cash often provides a welcome boost for local economies in the post-holiday lull.
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If you are staying with friends or family, a Russian citizen will have to register you at the local police station or post office for about 5 euro.
The real struggle is not between Mr Putin and his opponents, but between two rival business clans inside his campaign, one Moscow-linked, one local, hoping for post-election spoils.
And it should not be forgotten that much of the centralisation under the Tories was a direct response to the failures of local government in the post-war years.
He has spoken to his local paper, the Daily Post and is, by their account, unrepentant.
During World War II, it was used as an observation post by the local Home Guard and Observer Corps.
Following consultation with producers, officers said a new Highland Local Food Co-ordinator post could be created and funded for three years.
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