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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.

'This Guy Really Delivers'

Jerry Zezima | Posted 04.15.2013 | Comedy
Jerry Zezima

With apologies to Nathaniel Hawthorne, who is dead and can't sue me, I live in the House of the Three Gables. When the vent in the main one, the Clark gable, was gone with the wind after a recent storm, my wife, Sue, asked me to fix it.

More Customers Does NOT Mean More Money For The Postal Service

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 04.08.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON -- What business gets more customers every year, yet keeps losing money? The U.S. Postal Service delivers mail to 11 million more homes, o...

Like It or Not, the U.S. Postal Service Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon

Tarun Wadhwa | Posted 03.26.2013 | Technology
Tarun Wadhwa

While it is true that the volume of mail has been declining for years now, the biggest issues currently facing the Postal Service have more to do with political incompetence than technological disruption.

WATCH: Cliff Clavin Disses U.S. Postal Service

HuffPost Live | Posted 03.22.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

HuffPost Live's Alyona Minkovski sat down Friday with actor John Ratzenberger, famous for his role as mail carrier Cliff Clavin on the television seri...

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...

Jason Linkins

Cash-Strapped U.S. Postal Service Hopes You Will Buy Some Of Their Dope All-Weather Gear

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2013 | Politics

As you've no doubt heard, there are big changes afoot for your U.S. Postal Service. The perennially cash-strapped movers of mail recently announced th...

Postmaster Pleads With Congress Over Saturday Mail Cuts

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 04.15.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. Postal Services pleaded with Congress Wednesday not to thwart his plan to cut Saturday mail as a way to save m...

Postcard Arrives Almost A Half Century Late

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 02.12.2013 | Business

Bert Jacobson was just 13 when he took a trip with his father and cousins to the East Coast and wrote his mother a postcard to describe the fun he was...

Former Postal Worker Pleads Guilty To Huge Tax Fraud

Reuters | Posted 04.13.2013 | Business

* NJ residents admit to theft, conspiracy * One of largest U.S. stolen identity tax refund frauds By Jonathan Stempel ...

LOOK: The Ridiculous Reason One Landlord Increased Rent By 1 Penny

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.06.2013 | Business

A landlord in Maryland just redefined what it means to be a cheapskate. After the U.S. Postal Service raised the cost of a first-class stamp by a ...

Christina Wilkie

Hallmark Sends Greeting To Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 02.05.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON - Hallmark Cards Inc. is preparing to send Capitol Hill a special greeting this year. But it's not the sappy, well-wishing kind that made t...

Postal Service Claims Immunity From Traffic Tickets

Posted 02.02.2013 | Business

The U.S. Postal Service is trying to get out of paying some traffic tickets. A lawyer for the USPS sent the city of East Cleveland as well as the ...

Going for Broke

Paul Gereffi | Posted 04.03.2013 | Business
Paul Gereffi

While everyone is predicting our demise? Instead of blaming the Internet for less mail, let's make the Post Office a place to go for Internet access. Customers could come in and use the Internet, like they do now at some Office Depot or FedEx outlets.

Harry Reid Picking Up Where GOP Left Off

AP | Posted 01.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Senate Democratic leader is promising to act this year on legislation that went nowhere in the last Congress, including aid to victi...

Post Office Cuts Threaten Black Middle Class

Reuters | Posted 03.22.2013 | Black Voices

By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO, Jan 20 (Reuters) - While delivering mail on Chicago's North Side, Lakesha Dortch-Hardy spoke about how muc...

Grim News For The Postal Service

Reuters | Posted 03.16.2013 | Business

By Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service's Board of Governors has directed the cash-strapped agency t...

Netflix Is In Trouble With Court

Reuters | Posted 03.13.2013 | Technology

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that Netflix Inc got an unfair advantage from the U.S. Postal...

Postal Service Looks To New Congress For Rescue

Reuters | Posted 03.06.2013 | Politics

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

10 Reasons You Should Keep Mailing Holiday Cards

Kathryn E. Livingston | Posted 02.17.2013 | Fifty
Kathryn E. Livingston

10 good reasons to stop relying on email.

Confronting Extinction: Lessons From the U.S. Mail

Frank A. Weil | Posted 02.13.2013 | Politics
Frank A. Weil

What then, does the USPS do that is essential to the functioning of modern society? While it certainly employs a lot of people who need jobs in post offices and on the street, the basic answer is "nothing."

Finding the 'American' Kahlil Gibran: Renée Moorad and the ADC Commemorative Stamp Campaign

Todd Fine | Posted 02.04.2013 | Impact
Todd Fine

With increasing interest in the historical connections between the United States and the Arab world as a result of the politics of our time, there seemingly is a new push to expand knowledge about Gibran and possibly ground him in an American setting.

Postal Service Makes Plan For Survival

AP | Posted 11.28.2012 | Politics

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...