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$1.9 Billion Lost

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.10.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Postal Service said Friday it lost $1.9 billion over the last three months and warned that losses would continue to mount witho...

The Plight of the Postal Service

Ralph Nader | Posted 05.03.2013 | Business
Ralph Nader

The United States Postal Service is in a freefall due to poor management, a starkly shortsighted, paralyzed Congressional leadership, and the steady march of right wing ideologues.

NYC: My Own Personal Cocktail Party

Jeanne Martinet | Posted 06.19.2013 | New York
Jeanne Martinet

At the risk of seeming New York-centric, I believe people here tend to be more culturally-diverse and more engaged in what goes on around them than people in most other places, so our conversations tend to be more interesting -- and often more unguarded.

Four Victories for the Public Good

David Morris | Posted 06.17.2013 | Politics
David Morris

I'm not saying it's time to break out the champagne and start chanting, "The people united will never be defeated." But the past few weeks have brought us some heartwarming demonstrations that the popular will still has a bite.

Catherine New

How Some Small Companies Are Breathing Life Into A Dying Industry

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 04.04.2013 | Small Business

Think no one but your grandmother sends cards anymore? Turns out greeting cards are still popular -- but maybe not in the way you think. Angelica B...

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Jennifer Hamady | Posted 05.26.2013 | Healthy Living
Jennifer Hamady

Certainly we can choose to hold onto the idols and ideas that give us meaning and a sense of awareness and place in the world. But we don't need to. And therein lies the great lesson for us all.

A Post Office for the 21st Century: Universal High-Speed Broadband

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 05.11.2013 | Technology
David M. Abromowitz

Why not harness the Postal Service of the 21st century to catalyze America's economic development, much as the Postal Service did after it was originally created in the 18th century?

Mark Gongloff

Postal Service Spends Thousands On Cheesy Video Invitations

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.06.2013 | Business

The U.S. Postal Service apparently subscribes to the Real Housewives of New Jersey school of money management: The thing to do when you're broke is to...

Saturday Delivery

Jeff Danziger | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics
Jeff Danziger

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6 People Who Should Be Freaking Out About the Post Office's Stupid Cuts

Toby Barlow | Posted 04.08.2013 | Business
Toby Barlow

Who cares about the silly little post office? Well, I'd like to suggest these mighty folks might want to start rolling up their sleeves and come out swinging.

Condemning the U.S. Postal Service's Move to End Saturday Delivery

Ralph Nader | Posted 04.08.2013 | Business
Ralph Nader

By ending Saturday letter delivery in August 2013, as the USPS has proposed, millions of customers who take advantage of its services will be harmed, mail service will be slowed, and the USPS's current death spiral will deepen.

The Post Office's Pain Is Netflix's Gain

AP | By MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 04.08.2013 | Technology

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix won't miss Saturday mail delivery, even though the weekend service helped keep its DVD-by-mail subscribers happy. ...

Trump's Big, Expensive Blow

The Huffington Post | Chelsea Kiene | Posted 01.28.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Trump will be paying taxes after all on a historic property he complains he paid "too much" for. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) and memb...

Averting the Fiscal Cliff: Retired Postal Worker Shames One Percent

Janet Mason | Posted 03.02.2013 | Politics
Janet Mason

The U.S. Treasury Department has been taking contributions toward the national debt since 1961. The largest single donation, made in 1992, was $3.5 million. Most contributions have been under $100 dollars.

Visions of the Future at the End of the World

Andrew Horwitz | Posted 02.09.2013 | Arts
Andrew Horwitz

What better site to explore the shifting modes of perception and the drastic transformations in our experience of time and space than the largely abandoned administrative facilities of the James A. Farley Post Office and future home of Moynihan Station?

The Postal Service Should Go... Now

Eli Lehrer | Posted 01.25.2013 | Politics
Eli Lehrer

Useless is a strong word but, quite fairly, it can and does apply to the U.S. Postal Service.

Postal Service Sets Record With Huge Loss

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 01.15.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The struggling U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported an annual loss of a record $15.9 billion and forecast more red ink in 2013,...

Mail Carrier Ignores Dead Body... To Deliver The Mail

AP | Posted 11.09.2012 | Denver

By ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER -- The U.S. Postal Service is defending a mail carrier who stepped around a Denver man who collapsed and died near his f...

Friday's Child Is Loving and Giving: Obama, Romney and the Post Office

Janet Mason | Posted 12.18.2012 | Gay Voices
Janet Mason

One day, I was with my long-term partner in the neighborhood post office where she had been a clerk -- until just recently. After 29 years with the postal system, her job was abolished.

10 Things The Postal Service Doesn't Want You To Know

SmartMoney | JEN WIECZNER | Posted 08.27.2012 | Home

SmartMoney: 1. Your failure to send your Mother a proper birthday card is the least of our problems. For four days at the end of June, retired l...

Saving the Post Office: Letter Carriers Consider Bringing Back Banking Services

Ellen Brown | Posted 10.15.2012 | Business
Ellen Brown

Adding banking services is an internationally proven way to maintain post office profitability.

Why Newspapers Might Be $1 Billion Poorer

AP | By RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 10.15.2012 | Media

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service is proposing to cut its rates for one of the nation's top direct marketing companies, a move that threate...

FedEx CEO's Nice Little Payday

AP | SAMANTHA BOMKAMP | Posted 08.14.2012 | Business

NEW YORK -- The founder and top executive at FedEx Corp. received a pay package worth $13.7 million in the most recent fiscal year, nearly double a ye...

Buffalo Postal

Michael Clarke | Posted 10.09.2012 | Impact
Michael Clarke

Using information from mail carriers, we began to identify Buffalo neighborhoods where we could do some good. It would be nice to rescue every street, but resources are scarce in this line of work.

U.S. Postal Service May Soon Be Unable To Borrow Money

Reuters | Posted 10.09.2012 | Business

* USPS net loss $5.2 bln vs $3.1 bln a year earlier * Mail volume down, shipping and packages up * Officials call on Congress to overhaul ag...