TAMPA - Present-buying procrastinators might have an easier time with their long-distance gift giving this year because post offices are offering extended weekend hours for the holidays. ...more

December 12, 2007

190 million Pieces of mail processed during the holiday season last year at the mail-processing center near Tampa International Airport ...more

December 10, 2007

Elves have visited the Interbay Post Office, leaving holiday cheer in their wake. ...more

December 8, 2007

Getting Santa's attention was never so easy. At the 25th annual Santa Fest on Saturday in Ybor City, scores of children wrote the jolly old elf letters, arranged for phone calls from the North Pole and climbed onto the lap of the red-suited toy maker. ...more

December 2, 2007

Pasco County's charitable and service organizations began preparing for the Thanksgiving holiday months in advance, and they delivered to the delight of hundreds of less-fortunate families that needed their help. ...more

November 23, 2007

The South Hillsborough County Toys for Tots drive will shift into high gear on Letter Carriers Day on Dec. 1, as residents leave new, unwrapped toys by their mailboxes for U.S. Postal Service workers to collect. ...more

November 22, 2007

SEBRING — Three of Sebring's prominent residents have died within less than one week. Former Police Chief Lonnie Curl, 87, died Tuesday at his Sebring home. Former Police Chief Bob Baker attended Curl's funeral Friday and then died of a heart attack later that night. Former Postmaster Ray Graddy, 92, died Saturday. "To me Ray Graddy represents what the old pioneers of Sebring are all about," said Craig Johnson, a friend of Graddy. "He cared about his community, and he gave back." Johnson said Graddy was a nice man who always treated people well. ...more

November 20, 2007

TAMPA - Ken Nyfong's mailbox sits atop sturdy dock pilings along Apollo Beach Boulevard, part of a front-yard landscaping scheme of thick round posts stuck into sandy ground. ...more

November 16, 2007

More than 5,000 trick-or-treaters attended Trick or Treat Street at Riverview High on Oct. 27. ...more

November 15, 2007

The U.S. government has overcharged Americans by more than $100 million a year in its fee for new passports, according to cost figures uncovered by congressional investigators and analyzed by two senators and The Associated Press. ...more

November 3, 2007