Today the U.S. Postal Service will fail to make a $5.5 billion Congressionally mandated payment to cover health care costs …
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Post Office Hour Reductions, Called a ‘Win-Win,’ Feel More Like a Lose-Lose
Last week, the post office announced that rather than close thousands of rural post offices around the country to cut costs and reduce a ballooning deficit, it would drastically reduce hours at many of those locations. Some, in …
Why Can’t the Post Office Ship Beer and Wine?
The latest proposal to save the financially strapped U.S. Postal Service would allow it to ship beer and wine, overturning a temperance-era law that has been on the books for more than a century.
One Online Petition’s Goal: Ending Junk Mail
As the U.S. Postal Service increasingly promotes its new direct mail program, one group is trying to stop that mail from ever reaching your mailbox.
Why the Post Office Loves Junk Mail
If you ask the Postmaster General about junk mail, he’ll likely correct you. “If you work in the postal service, it’s jobs mail,” he says. That’s why the postal service is pushing an online program to get more, um, jobs …
Some Awfully Good Companies Competing for ‘Worst Company in America’ Title
Google and Apple? They’ve been squared off in an annual March Madness-style tournament in which the nation’s worst company “wins.” What complicates matters is that Apple, Google, and several other companies entered in the contest …
Post Office Wants to Raise Prices 11%, to 50¢ per Stamp
By 2015, the U.S. Postal Service says it could be losing $18.2 billion annually. To stop the bleeding, it has proposed several money-saving strategies, including closing hundreds of post offices and processing facilities, …
Why the Postal Service is Slowing First-Class Mail Delivery
It’s another move by the United States Postal Service to get a handle on its growing financial difficulties. But it could make things even worse.
Family Personally Delivers Party Invitations, Gets Charged Postage Anyway
Just how desperate for revenues is the United States Postal Service? Here’s one indication: A family in Connecticut recently stuffed 80 invitations in neighbors’ mailboxes for a Halloween block party, and now the postal service …
Will Post Office Cuts Cost You Credit Card Late Fees?
The cash-strapped United States Postal Service has proposed a number of cost-cutting moves in the face of a $9 billion deficit. Two big ideas suggested by Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe are eliminating Saturday mail delivery and closing 252 mail processing facilities, which would lead to first-class mail taking longer to reach its …
Success at the Post Office: Fewer Workers Are Paid to Do Nothing
The U.S. Postal Service, which is expected to lose $9 billion in 2011 and may have to close 10% of post offices and resort to five-day-a-week mail delivery, has figured out at least one way to cut costs. By more carefully …
Last Call for Free Shipping That’ll Arrive by Christmas. Plus: A Bonus from Sears
Thursday, December 17, is Free Shipping Day, when hundreds of retailers (722 at last check) are offering free shipping for online purchases. And there’s also something that’s “better than free shipping.”
