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• Spokane postal worker rally spotlights cuts

  April 5, 2012 in Business on Page A8 Area post office workers will hold a rally today in downtown Spokane, protesting planned cuts they say will degrade mail service. The rally, organized by the American Postal Workers Union, …

• Postal Service to delay cutbacks until mid-May

  December 13, 2011 The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday agreed to delay the closing of 252 mail processing centers and 3,700 local post offices until mid-May. 5

• Downtown Spokane post office to stay open

  November 14, 2011 in Business, City Postal Service officials have changed their minds and will keep open the downtown Spokane Riverside Avenue post office. 10

• Post office moving out of historic downtown building

  August 16, 2011 in Business on Page A1 The U.S. Postal Service plans to move out of its historic Riverside Avenue post office in downtown Spokane to cut costs, Spokane Postmaster Karen Fairlee said Monday. “We’re just in … 10

• Postal Service to move out of historic Spokane building

  August 15, 2011 in City The U.S. Postal Service plans to move out of its historic Riverside Avenue post office in downtown Spokane to cut costs, Spokane Postmaster Karen Fairlee said on Monday. 15

• Business update: Economic stress easing more slowly

  July 6, 2010 in Business Two-thirds of U.S. counties became economically healthier in May, thanks to more manufacturing jobs in the Midwest and fewer home foreclosures in the Sun Belt, according to a monthly analysis …

• Post office is a miracle at your door

  May 15, 2010 in City on Page B1 The mail (aka the post office, aka the U.S. Postal Service, aka U.S.P.S.) hasn’t been getting a lot of love lately. People refer to it, rudely, as snail mail. 2

• ‘Do not mail’ can’t gain traction

  May 5, 2010 in City on Page A7 Post office employees are fighting a proposal to allow people to “opt out” from receiving bulk mail. On Monday, the Spokane City Council rejected a nonbinding resolution asking the state … 5

• Spokane postal workers fight ‘Do Not Mail’ proposal

  May 4, 2010 in City Post office employees are fighting a proposal to allow people to “opt out” from receiving bulk mail. 15

• First-class stamps rise 2 cents

  May 11, 2009 in Business, Nation/World The post office wants two more pennies for your thoughts. The price of a first-class stamp for mailing a letter — or paying a bill — climbed to 44 cents … 1

• Postal chief: Post office running out of money

  March 25, 2009 in Nation/World The post office will run out of money this year unless it gets help, Postmaster General John Potter told Congress on Wednesday as he sought permission to cut delivery to … 3

• For big vehicle fleets, eliminating lefts is right

  August 23, 2008 in City on Page B1 When your annual gasoline bills reach into the millions, every little bit helps. That’s why operators of large vehicle fleets, from the post office to school districts, are examining routes …

• Microsoft To Team Up With Postal Service?

  May 26, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A16 Maybe that joke about Microsoft and the Vatican wasn’t so farfetched after all. The Redmond, Wash.-based software company hasn’t gone so far as to buy the Roman Catholic Church, as …

• Man Gets Kick Out Of Postal Service In Something Of A Slip-Up, Government Gets North Idaho Mixed Up With North Dakota

  April 13, 1995 in Idaho on Page B1 A painful slip on the U.S. post office floor in Coeur d’Alene led to an embarrassing slip-up a few months later in California. Or was that Colorado?