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A man suspected of killing someone he bumped into on a sidewalk outside New York City's main post office has been found dead in Philadelphia, police said Wednesday.
A man accused of trying to burn down a post office to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been charged with attempted arson. The Register-Guard newspaper reported a 45-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in front of the post office holding a beer, a hammer and a propane torch.
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 Chicago.
With postal rates going up in May, the Post Office is readying new stamps to cover the new prices.
The Postal Service had a $384 million loss in the October-December period, usually a profitable time for the agency because of holiday cards, gifts and catalogs.
Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. If the change happens, that doesn't necessarily mean an end to Saturday mail delivery. Previous post office studies have looked at the possibility of skipping some other day when mail flow is light, such as Tuesday.
Authorities in Ohio are accusing a man of planting fake pipe bombs at two post offices to divert attention while he robbed a bank.
A grand jury has indicted a Broward County man on manslaughter charges in what police are calling the road rage shooting of a federal customs agent.
The U.S. Postal Service could lose about $2 billion this year due to tough economic times, and it needs to change to meet the demands of the public, Postmaster General John Potter said Monday.
A man charged with killing a federal agent was late for an appointment and driving erratically when the confrontation erupted, police said Thursday.
A West Virginia post master has died after police say a man she knew shot her at her post office.
A New York City fire official says insulation on an electrical cable caught fire, leading to the evacuation of a historic post office in midtown Manhattan.
The only post office in Kendleton doesn't have a drive-thru, but it nearly got one after a bulldozer rammed a hole in the building. The Fort Bend County sheriff's office Thursday announced three suspects are sought in the vandalism that also damaged the post office fence.
A vehicle has crashed through the front of a Southern California post office, injuring three people.
A postal regulatory commission recommended a 2-cent increase in the cost of mailing a letter Monday and urged the Post Office to introduce a "forever" stamp valid for first-class postage even when rates rise.
A former postal worker who had been put on medical leave for psychological problems shot five people to death at a huge mail-processing center and then killed herself in what was believed to be the nation's deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out by a woman.
A female ex-postal worker opened fire at a mail processing plant, killing six people and critically wounding another before committing suicide in what's believed to be the deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out by a woman.
Better Post and PackingAs long as we're subsidizing a national postal service, we might as well angle for one that we, as a nation, can be proud of. This article offers suggestions to the USPS for how to become relevant again.
Taxpayer Bailout needed for the Post OfficeIt's been an ugly few years for the United States Postal Service.
Sword robbery brothers are jailed Two brothers who carried out a violent robbery at a Neath post office have been jailed at Swansea Crown Court. Ryad and Richard Morgan, 28 and 25, wore black balaclavas and went armed with a Samurai sword and a starting pistol to the Briton Ferry branch.
Baiting the DebateI recently received an email from my Congressman asking my opinion concerning an issue that has arisen from the debate over ObamaCare.
A postal strike in Britain is the war at home - On Line Opinion - 29/10/2009The Post Office alsways stood for what was the best of British...
Commentary: Temptation and the Netflix banditEx-postal worker admits to stealing Netflix movies, stashing them in backpack
Mass. postal worker admits to stealing 30,000 DVDsSPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - A former postal service employee has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 30,000 DVDs that moved through a western Massachusetts post office.
C-17, Post Office win Senate scramble The Senate gave new life to the C-17 transport plane Wednesday, overriding the objections of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and endorsing $2.5 billion to continue production even at the expense of operating and maintenance accounts in the Pentagon budget.
A $4 billion bailout for the Postal Service? The House voted Thursday to freeze Medicare Part B premiums for most elderly next year, even as Democrats moved to exempt the Postal Service from having to make $4 billion in payments due next week to cover retirement health benefits for its employees.
Tennessee mayor defends sending out false anti-Muslim email.excerpt: ""Johnny Piper, the mayor of Clarksville, TN, recently forwarded an anti-Muslim email urging all "patriotic Americans" to protest a U.S. Postal Service stamp that commemorates an Islamic holiday.
US Postal Service seeks 30,000 job cuts via employee buyoutsThe U.S. Postal Service, the nation's second-largest employer, offered buyouts on Tuesday to quickly slash up to 30,000 jobs as it grapples with declining mail volume and embraces more automation.
Did the most gifted orator of our time pull a "Biden"? Or was it deliberate? My sources are speculating that Obama himself doesn't want this healthcare thing to pass.
Obama Goes Postal, Lands in Dead-Letter Office: Caroline Baum "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It's the Post Office that's always having problems." -- Barack Obama, Aug. 11, 2009 No institution has been the butt of more government- inefficiency jokes than the U.S. Postal Service. Maybe the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Post Office goes postal on ObamaLet Obama keep talking, maybe he will unilaterally kill the Dem version of healthcare "reform" uh I mean insurance reform.
Obama Goes Postal, Lands in Dead-Letter Office: Caroline Baum - Bloomberg.comWhen Obama compared the post office to UPS and FedEx, he was clearly hoping to assuage voter concerns about a public health-care option undercutting and eliminating private insurance. What he did instead was conjure up visions of long lines and interminable waits.
Postal Service Fires Back at Obama over InsultThe National Association of Postal Supervisors has fired back at President Barack Obama for dragging the U.S. Postal Service further into the health care debate. In an Aug.
Health Care Goes Postal Obamacare Will Be Run As Well As The Post Office. Fear For Your Lives! By Kyle Smith. 3:56 am August 16, 2009After he was asked, "Who can compete with the government? The answer is nobody," Mr. Obama's answer evoked the public-private competition in the mail business. "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right?" the president said. "It's the Post Office that's always having problems."
Government run post office to lose 7 Billion this year, plans to stop saturday deliveryOn this sultry weekend in the middle of August, take a look at what's on your kitchen counter. Or maybe you've left it on top of the wooden table in your front hallway. Or tossed it onto the chair next to the couch in your living room. Chances are it may still be there:
U.S. Postal Service weighs service cuts The U.S. Postal Service is considering ways to save money on mail delivery as Americans send less mail and the service loses more money.
Going postal: Town battles to save lone mailboxOTISFIELD, Maine - The folks of Otisfield are so fond of their lone public mailbox that they blocked it with a snowplow and a backhoe to prevent the Postal Service from taking it away in the gloom of night.
U.S. Postal Service Gives Stamp of Approval To FOSSThe U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has switched 1,300 of the servers that manage its package tracking system to a Linux environment.
If a public option would drive private health insurance out of business, how do UPS and Fedex survive against the USPS?The next time a pundit claims that a public option will put private health insurance companies out of business and lead to socialized health care, I hope someone asks them how UPS, Fedex, DHL, and hundreds of other smaller delivery companies are still in business, despite having …
Could your post office be closing?A rallying cry can be heard across the country, from the swanky streets of New York's SoHo to the tiny town of Randolph, Kan.: "Save our post office!"
Kitten dropped, discovered in Boston city mailboxBOSTON – Officials said a two-pound, eight-week-old kitten was dropped in a public mailbox in Boston and later found unharmed among envelopes and packages.
Government Made Federal Case Over $78This all began when the USPS Inspector General started an investigation over a year ago after reports of money and stamps coming up missing at the Park HIll post office.
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