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• Ricin-laced letters intercepted at postal facility

  May 17, 2013 in City on Page A1 Two ricin-laced letters were seized this week at a postal facility in Spokane – one addressed to a federal judge and another to the Spokane post office, postal officials have … 6

• Farewell tour

  February 20, 2013 in City on Page A1 Kevin O’Grady was the kind of guy who was never late. “If he told you he’d pick you up at 5 o’clock, he’d get there by 4:59,” the Air Force … 1

• Saturday mail delivery on cut list

  February 7, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Saturday mail may soon go the way of the Pony Express and penny postcards. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries …

• Spokane Postmaster Fairlee stays true to USPS mission

  November 25, 2012 in Business on Page E1 Karen Fairlee’s childhood exposure to mail delivery was enough to dissuade most sensible people from considering a career with the U.S. Postal Service. “I grew up in Billings, Mont., where … 1

• Sterling to consolidate in Crescent Court space

  July 20, 2012 in Business on Page A10 Sterling Savings Bank will take over the vacant sixth floor of the downtown Spokane Crescent Court office building next month. Sterling will use the space to consolidate some of its …

• Sterling Savings leases floor in Crescent Court

  July 19, 2012 in Business Sterling Savings Bank will take over the vacant sixth floor of the downtown Spokane Crescent Court office building next month. 1

• 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, …

• Spokane’s mail processing center spared from closure list

    December 5, 2011 in City, News Spokane’s mail processing center will be spared, and also could begin sorting mail from the Tri-Cities, Wenatchee and western Montana under a budget-cutting consolidation plan, according to the U.S. Postal … 16

• Historic post office to stay

  November 15, 2011 in Business on Page A5 Postal Service officials have changed their minds and will not close the historic downtown Spokane post office on Riverside Avenue. Spokane Postmaster Karen Fairlee said the decision was made at … 1

• 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

• Avista’s light-bulb mailing going ‘seamlessly’

  October 22, 2011 in Idaho on Page B1 In a West Plains warehouse, Danny Megow attaches labels to Priority Mail packages headed to Davenport, Clarkston and Orofino. He’s part of the work crew at Mailstream USA, a contract … 3

• USPS saddled with huge Spokane lease on vacant space

  September 7, 2011 in Business on Page A1 The U.S. Postal Service is not only looking to find a smaller downtown Spokane post office – it’s also hoping to unload downtown office space that’s vacant and costing $490,000 … 16

• Postmaster’s warnings dire

  September 7, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service is on the verge of financial collapse and should eliminate Saturday delivery, close thousands of local post offices, restructure its health plan and lay … 28

• 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

• Rural Waverly fights to keep its post office

  July 12, 2011 in City on Page A5 About half of Waverly showed up Monday night to protest the proposed closing of the town’s U.S. Postal Service office. The 40 or so people waved signs and expressed disgust … 8

• Editorial: Postage hike won’t deliver post office from trouble

  July 8, 2010 in Opinion on Page A15 One measure of the declining value of the U.S. Postal Service is the diminished outrage that greets each price increase for stamps and other services. It just isn’t that big … 2

• Postal Service asks for 2-cent stamp increase

  July 7, 2010 in City on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday proposed a 2-cent increase to the price of a first-class stamp. The Postal Service, facing an estimated $7 billion shortfall in 2011, … 3

• 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 announces 2-cent rate increase

  July 6, 2010 in Nation/World The post office wants to increase the price of a stamp by 2 cents to 46 cents starting in January. The agency has been battered by massive losses and declining … 25

• Ex-postal worker accused of theft

  June 17, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A11 A former Post Falls U.S. Postal Service employee was indicted this week by a federal grand jury for allegedly stealing prescription painkillers from packages sent to U.S. military veterans.

• Crash injures postal worker

  June 16, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A7 A postal worker delivering mail Tuesday was injured, as were two other people, when a car slammed into the back of his postal truck in Sandpoint, the Idaho State Police …

• 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

• After 51 years, mail carrier ready for post-office life

  March 4, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page S1 Quite a few of Ernie Turner’s co-workers were not alive when he began work with the U.S. Postal Service in 1958. After all those years of completing his appointed rounds … 2

• Postal worker sues over firing

  November 24, 2009 in City on Page A7 A former Spokane postal supervisor is suing the U.S. Postal Service, saying it wrongly fired him after he refused to accept a late delivery of Netflix DVDs back in 2007. …

• Ex-supervisor sues Postal Service over firing

  November 23, 2009 in City A former Spokane postal supervisor is suing the U.S. Postal Service, saying it wrongly fired him after he refused to accept a late delivery of Netflix DVDs back in 2007. 12

• Volunteers strive to save Santa letter service

  November 20, 2009 in Nation/World Santa’s “elves” at the North Pole have been given their walking papers — but they’re not going quietly. The volunteer “elves” are trying to counter a decision by the U.S. … 1

• Editorial: Post office must find new ways to cut costs

  August 28, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 When e-mail caught on, U.S. Postal Service offerings came to be known as snail mail. But delivery wasn’t the only thing that was slow; so was the feds’ reaction to … 3

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