"I e-filed my own return free through the IRS website without a hitch, " says Melissa Labant, a tax expert with the American Institute of CPAs, who is relieved she didn't have to go to the post office.

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Customers too busy to go to the local post office themselves may hand over their passbooks to visiting salesmen, who will arrange a new account for them at no extra charge.

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"This is a busy area, and we are appealing for anyone who may have seen this man, who was dressed in a uniform, go into the post office or leave it to come forward, " said Det Insp Patch.

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Shortly, you will be able to open an app and have your car come pick you up wherever you are or go pick up a family member when you can't or go to the grocery store for you, the post-office, etc, etc.

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"I'd particularly like to thank Andrew, who kept the old branch open while the new one was being built so that people in the village did not have to go without a post office, " she said.

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And, really, apart from the post office, the market, and the store, there was nowhere to go.

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