US POSTAL SERVICE
Postal Service: Rural post offices will remain open, but with shorter hours 
The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought Wednesday to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours.
By Associated Press , May 09, 2012
Postal inspectors crack down on synthetic drugs
U.S. postal inspectors are cracking down on synthetic drug shipments in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Both states recently passed laws that ban certain chemicals found in synthetic marijuana and stimulants.
By Associated Press , May 07, 2012
USPS closing Devils Lake, Minot mail processing centers; Grand Forks center safe
No significant changes will occur in Grand ForksThe U.S. Postal Service’s Customer Service Mail Processing Center in Grand Forks will remain open. The Devils Lake operation will move to Grand Forks, while the processing center in Minot will move to the Bismarck Processing and Distribution Center. No dates have been set for the changes.
By Kevin Bonham , February 23, 2012
Postal Service to consolidate mail processing centers in Minnesota
The U.S. Postal Service has announced which mail processing operations it will consolidate as it teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. The Postal Service said Thursday that in Minnesota, it will move processing from Duluth and Rochester to St. Paul and processing operations in St. Cloud, Mankato and Bemidji to Minneapolis.
By Associated Press , February 23, 2012
Post office: $18 billion loss without cuts, rate increase
Mired in red ink, the U.S. Postal Service is warning it will lose as much as $18.2 billion a year by 2015 unless Congress grants it new leeway to eliminate Saturday delivery, slow first-class mail by one day and raise the price of a postage stamp by as much as 5 cents.
By Hope Yen , February 16, 2012
Grand Forks council committees want to protect mail-processing center
The Grand Forks City Council plans to call for the preservation of the mail-processing facility here. Agendas for both the Finance and Development Committee and Service and Safety Committee have a resolution calling for the U.S. Postal Service to keep the processing center open.
By Herald Staff Report , February 12, 2012
Public invited to sign petition for better mail service
Newspapers in North Dakota are inviting users of the U.S. Postal Service to sign petitions asking the postal service and the state’s Congressional delegation to re-examine plans to reduce postal service in the state.
By Herald Staff Report , January 11, 2012
New Postal Service plan considers idea of Grand Forks mail center absorbing Devils Lake's
The U.S. Postal System is considering a plan that would keep the Grand Forks mail processing center open but close its Devils Lake center, merging the two operations. The USPS announced Monday that it has begun the evaluation process for the plan.
By Christopher Bjorke , December 20, 2011
Franken, Klobuchar: Delay post office closings
The two Minnesota Democrats fears the struggling U.S. Postal Service will implement major cuts before Congress has had a chance to weigh in. The cuts would eliminate one-day delivery of mail and close numerous rural post offices and mail processing centers.
By Herald Staff Report , December 12, 2011
Plant closures will be ‘a mess’
The U.S. Postal Service’s plan to close 252 mail-processing facilities and cut 28,000 jobs by the end of next year may help the agency curb its mounting financial problems, but it faces big practical obstacles. Among the mail processing facilities considered for closing are ones in Grand Forks, Devils Lake, Minot, Bemidji, and Duluth.
By Ryan J. Foley , December 10, 2011
Postal cuts to slow delivery of first-class mail
Facing bankruptcy, the U.S. Postal Service is pushing ahead with unprecedented cuts to first-class mail next spring that will slow delivery and, for the first time in 40 years, eliminate the chance for stamped letters to arrive the next day.
By Hope Yen , December 04, 2011
Jamestown, N.D., mail processing moving to Fargo
The U.S. Postal Service is moving Jamestown, N.D'.s mail-processing operations to Fargo by the end of the year.
By Associated Press , October 03, 2011
THEIR OPINION: How to reinvent the U.S. Postal Service
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has delivered an urgent message to Congress: The U.S. Postal Service is running out of cash. Without a massive financial fix, mail delivery could come to a halt by this time next year.
By The Chicago Tribune , September 16, 2011
Postal Service may close processing centers in GF, Devils Lake, Minot and Bemidji
The Postal Service mail processing is about to launch a feasibility study about the potential consolidation of customer service mail processing centers in the region.
By Kevin Bonham , September 15, 2011
Postal Service may get short-term financial help
The White House may pull the Postal Service back from the brink of insolvency, at least for a few months.
By Associated Press , September 07, 2011
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