Post office for homeless wins reprieve to stay open

Post office for homeless wins reprieve to stay open: "The U.S. Postal Service is re-evaluating its decision to cut funding to a Phoenix post office that serves homeless clientele, just days before the scheduled start of closure proceedings.

The post office at Lodestar Day Resource Center, a 12-acre human-services campus that assists homeless adults, had been slated to gradually lose postal services beginning next Friday if the campus' executive director couldn't supplement the thousands in funding the Postal Service had decided to cut.

The office, which serves about 3,000 homeless clients, offers afternoon mail pickup Tuesdays through Saturdays for everything from personal letters to Social Security checks, disability checks, W2 forms, food stamps and birth-certificate copies."