Tagged: united state postal service

Arts
4:08 pm
Tue April 24, 2012

Michigan poets Roethke, Hayden featured on new U.S. stamp

Photo courtesy of U.S.P.S.

The U.S. Postal Service is paying homage to the world of poetry with ten new commemorative stamps.

Two Michigan poets will be featured on the new Forever stamps: Theodore Roethke, a Saginaw native and Pulitzer Prize winning poet; and Robert Hayden, a Detroit poet, and the first black poet laureate of the United States.

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Economy
2:12 pm
Tue December 6, 2011

Postal workers vow to fight planned closings

Credit (photo by Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio)
The entrance to the U. S. Post Office mail processing center in Jackson, Michigan

Postal workers plan to fight a proposal to close mail processing centers in Michigan.    

Postal Service officials confirmed this week they plan to move forward with closing more than 200 processing centers nationwide next year. That includes facilities in a half dozen Michigan cities, including Lansing, Jackson and Kalamazoo.   

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