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Letter To Santa Program Ends At North Pole Because Of Privacy Concerns, Sex Offender

AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 11.20.2009 | Home

Read More: Mrs. Claus, Writing a Letter to Santa, Children, Santa Letter Program, Volunteers, How to Write to Santa, Letter to Santa, Usps, Address, North Pole, Sex Offender, North Pole Alaska, Christmas, Santa Claus, Christmas Tradition, Postal Service, Alaska, Letters to Santa, Santa Letter, Home News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A group of volunteer Santa Claus "elves" in Alaska's frigid interior is determined to save a popular holiday letter service ...

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Post Office Lost $3.8 billion Last Year

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Junk Mail, Economy, Post Office, Usps, Post Office Earnings Report, Email, Cost-Cutting, Postal Service, Mail, Recession, Business News

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...

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Return to Sender: Stamping Out Cockfighting Magazines

Michael Markarian | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Amazon.com, Postal Service, Animals, Cockfighting, South Carolina, Politics News
Michael Markarian

The fight to stamp out animal fighting marches on, and with renewed vigor. The HSUS and HSLF will not rest until holdout cockfighters in every state are delivered nothing but long felony prison sentences.

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Jason Linkins

The U.S. Postal Service: A Winning Model For Health Care?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Postal Service, U.S. Post Office, Public Option, Politics News

Health care reform opponents frequently deride government intervention by snarking, "Do you really want health care brought to you by the people who b...

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Post Office May Close 24 City Sites

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Post Offices, Post Office Closings, Postal Service, Postal Regulatory Commission, Usps, Chicago News

The Postal Service is considering closing 24 retail sites in Chicago, among 1,000 closures being considered nationally as it faces a potential $7 bill...

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Postal Service Looking To Close Nearly 1,000 Offices

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 09.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Postal Service, Post Office Closing, US Postal Service, Post Office, Home News

WASHINGTON — A pillar of U.S. communities since the nation's founding, the post office is facing the prospect of closings or consolidation of se...

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Dean Hudson, Postal Worker, Gets 5 Months For Stealing Kids' Birthday Cash

AP | Posted 08.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Post Office, Postal Service, Dean Hudson Jail, Postal Worker, Dean Hudson, Home News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Northern California postal worker has been sentenced to five months in federal prison for stealing money from children's ...

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White House Pressured To Fix Postal Budget Crisis

The Hill | Walter Alarkon | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Postal Service, Postal Service Budget, Post Office, Politics News

Postal workers say a congressional plan to fix the budget shortfalls at the United States Postal Service (USPS) is short sighted and have asked the Wh...

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U.S. Postal Service Gets 6,500 New Alternative Power Vehicles

autobloggreen.com | Autobloggreen | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Cars, 6, Alternative Power Vehicles, 500 Postal Service Vehicles, Hybrids, Postal Service, Postal Service Hybrids, Green News

As part of the U.S. General Services Administration's recent $210 million purchase of new vehicles from Chrysler, Ford and General Motors, the U.S. Po...

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Nation's Last 24-Hour Post Office Window Closing

AP | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Post Offices, Postal Service, 24 Hour Post Office, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- The U.S. Postal Service will cease round-the-clock service at its last 24-hour post office windows in the country, located in downtown...

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Liberating the Postal Service

A. Lee Fritschler | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Postage Stamps, Letters, U.S. Postal Service, Business, Postal Service, Mail, Usps, Business News
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.

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Junk Mail's Endless Summer

Todd Paglia | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Postage Stamps, James-Terry-Consumer-Rights-League, Climate Change, Postal Service, Deforestation, Junk Mail, Direct Mail, Green News
Todd Paglia

Junk mail's waste and nuisance is obvious; the system supporting it is galling: Our standard postage subsidizes junk mail.

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It Was A Wonderful (Dog's) Life

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 06.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Postal Service, Pets, Networking, Dogs, Living News
Jeffrey Shaffer

May 17th to 23rd is National Dog Bite Prevention Week. It's a safety campaign that gets a big push every year from the US Postal Service and pet...

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Post Office Offering Early Retirement To 150,000 Workers, Cutting Managers

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Post Office, Jobs, Unemployment, Post Office Cuts, Postal Service, Business News

WASHINGTON — Battered by the economy, the post office is offering early retirement to 150,000 workers, cutting management and closing offices, t...

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Harvey Mail Delivery Suspended

AP | Posted 11.23.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Harvey, Harvey Post Office, Postal Service, Mail Delivery, Harvey Mail Delivery, Harvey Violence, Chicago News

UPDATE From the Tribune: Under the eyes of a police officer, a U.S. postal carrier returned today to her route in a south suburban Harvey neighborh...

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24 Postal Services To Track Emissions

GreenBiz.com | Posted 06.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Postal Service, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green News

BRUSSELS, BE -- Twenty-four postal services yesterday announced the creation of a carbon-measurement and -monitoring system that aims to standardize h...

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HBO Teams Up With US Postal Service To Promote "John Adams"

New York Times | Stuart Elliot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Hbo, HBO Letter Writing, HBO Postal Service John Adams, John Adams Letter Writing, HBO John Adams, Postal Service, HBO Postal Service, John Adams, Postal Service John Adams, US Postal Service, Media News

HBO and the Postal Service are joining forces for the first time to co-sponsor a multimillion-dollar multimedia campaign that is intended to evoke the...

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Analysts: Postal Rate Change Will Wallop Netflix, Help Blockbuster

Silicon Valley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Increased Postal Rates, Netflix News, Tony Wible, Netflix, Postal Service, Blockbuster, Mark Mahaney, Citi Analysts, Business News

Another reason for Netflix (NFLX) to hurry up and transition to a purely digital model: A potential postal rate change could cut the company's operati...

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