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Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery by August

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion annually, the financially struggling agency says.

February 06, 2013

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Postal cancellation for 12-12-12 offered today

The Mitchell Post Office will offer a special pictorial cancellation to celebrate the last triple digit cancellation opportunity in this century.

By News release , December 12, 2012

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OPINION: We can save the USPS

The outside of the Old City Post Office in Washington, now home to the National Postal Museum, bears a noble inscription to the mail: “Bond of the Scattered Family/ Enlarger of the Common Life/ Carrier of News and Knowledge/ Instrument of Trade and Industry.”

By MIKE TAE and ADAM LAVIER , August 14, 2012

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Aberdeen, Pierre, Devils Lake mail processing centers to close

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — Mail processing centers in Aberdeen and Pierre in South Dakota and Devils Lake, N.D., are among the 140 slated for consolidation by February.

May 17, 2012

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New postal plan far-reaching

Closures staved off, but now 222 SD sites face reduced hours.

By Chris Huber , May 11, 2012

SD’s delegation welcomes new Postal Service proposal

South Dakota’s congressional delegation welcomed the U.S. Postal Service’s announcement Wednesday that it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours.

By DIRK LAMMERS , May 10, 2012

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Postal Service says rural post offices will be kept open for shorter hours

WASHINGTON — Bending to strong public opposition, the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday backed off a plan to close thousands of rural post offices after May 15 and proposed keeping them open, but with shorter operating hours.

By HOPE YEN , May 10, 2012

Sen. Thune says postal reforms needed

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — Sen. John Thune says the U.S. Postal Service has to be reformed to ensure its long-term viability, but whether a new proposal is aggressive enough to remedy its financial woes remains to be seen.

May 09, 2012

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Johnson and Thune see upside for rural areas

The mail processing facility at Huron and a series of small rural post offices slated for closure are likely to get a reprieve under a bill passed by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.

By Staff reports , April 26, 2012

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Senate votes to slow closing of post offices

Senate votes to slow closing of post offices WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate offered a lifeline to the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, voting to give the struggling agency an $11 billion cash infusion while delaying controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending Saturday delivery.

By HOPE YEN , April 26, 2012

Senate eyes plans to trim Postal Service

Overhauling the Postal Service does not break along traditional partisan or ideological lines. Central to the cost-cutting measures are plans to close hundreds of processing facilities and more than 2,000 post offices, an issue that pits lawmakers from smaller, rural states against colleagues from larger, more urban areas.

By Ed O’Keefe , April 23, 2012

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Congress to make key vote on post office closures Tuesday

Congress to make key vote on post office closures Tuesday With the U.S. Postal Service scheduled to run out of money in October, Senate leaders agreed on Thursday to take up the 21st Century Postal Service Act and a series of more than 30 proposed amendments.

By Denise Ross , April 22, 2012

Huron mail processing center will be closed, says USPS

The U.S. Postal Service announced Thursday it will move all mail processing operations from the Dakota Central Processing & Distribution Facility in Huron to the Sioux Falls Processing & Distribution Facility.

By Tom Lawrence , February 24, 2012

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USPS: Huron mail processing center to close

HURON — The Huron mail processing center is closing. The U.S. Postal Service announced Thursday it will move all mail processing operations from the Dakota Central Processing & Distribution Facility in Huron to the Sioux Falls Processing & Distribution Facility.

February 23, 2012

Mitchell's ‘Smiling Postman’ saluted for friendly service

Mitchell's ‘Smiling Postman’ saluted for friendly service Jim Schorzmann credits father for teaching him importance of a smile. He delivered mail for 26 years.

By Ross Dolan , January 16, 2012

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