Us Postal Service

Postal Service Looking To Close Nearly 1,000 Offices

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 09.03.2009 | Home


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...

Jeff Jarvis: Newspapers And Snail Mail "In The Same Sinking Ship"

Seeking Alpha | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media


Newspapers like to think they, too, have fixed costs and that's why they keep whining that readers "should" pay their bills. But they don't; for their...

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.

Green News Report - April 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate station - KRXA 540am in beautiful Monterey, CA! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama in Iowa for Earth Day whil...

Stamp Prices To Go Up 2-Cents In May

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — The post office will get an extra 2-cents worth when you mail a letter starting in May. The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday ...

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...

Postal Workers Attacked By Wild Turkeys

AP | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living


MADISON, Wis. — Rather than rain or snow, or even dogs, postal workers in a West Side neighborhood near Owen Conservation Park are being pestere...

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

New York Times | Stuart Elliot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


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...

Help! I'm being hounded by Chase, Part Deux: A New Beginning

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I just had what I believe to be a very satisfactory discussion with a nice woman who has not yet gone postal at the Postal Service.