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Post Office Lost $3.8 billion Last Year

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — The Postal Service reported a loss of $3.8 billion last year, despite a reduction of 40,000 full-time positions and other cost-cutt...

Liberating the Postal Service

A. Lee Fritschler | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business


A. Lee Fritschler

What the Postal Service needs is to be free of congressional interventions and allowed to operate as a regulated corporation in a competitive delivery services industry.

Zumbox Trying To Make Your Mailbox Obsolete

EcoGeek | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green


Why on earth do we still have snail mail? For packages? OK. But everything else, really? All the paper, all the transportation, all the man-hours deli...

Dear Santa, Stop Putting Catalogs in My Mailbox

Ted Wells | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green


Ted Wells

Some of us recycle them, but more than half end up in the landfills where they decompose, releasing methane, an intense global warming gas. They're a massive misuse of natural resources and energy.

Videos of the Labor 2008 Program to Elect Pro-Worker Candidates!

Stewart Acuff | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics


Stewart Acuff

Here are some fun videos that show you our core program elements.

10 Creative Ways To Reuse Your Junk Mail

Huffington Post | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green


100 billion pieces of junk mail are sent annually, which accounts for one-third of all United States mail. According to Treehugger, Americans spend ov...