By Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress that expired this week might have steered the nation away from the ...

WASHINGTON -- The head of the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service says the agency must be allowed to ease the terms of prepayments into a retir...

The post office deficit that is driving management to commit institutional suicide by ending six-day delivery, closing half of the nation's post offices and mail-processing centers, and laying off more than 200,000 workers, is make-believe.

DALLAS — Federal authorities are tracking what they call the most prolific mailer of white powder in U.S. history with an eye toward solving a c...

WASHINGTON — Drowning in red ink, the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported a quarterly loss of $3.2 billion and blamed Congress for blocking...

WASHINGTON — With no financial relief in sight, the U.S. Postal Service is pushing ahead with planned cuts to more than 260 mail processing cent...

Let me suggest a surefire way Barack Obama can win a second term: stand in the doorway of a post office scheduled for closing and declare, "Not on my watch."

The eagle is struggling to fly. Growing financial grief has placed the U.S. Postal Service in a difficult bind. As it plans to close hundreds of m...

The refusal of Congress has led the USPS to embrace strategies that may save money in the short term but will undermine if not destroy the public mission of the post office in the long term.

WASHINGTON -- The financially troubled Postal Service said Thursday it may close more than 250 mail processing facilities across the country and plans...