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The Postal Service reported a loss of $3.8 billion last year, despite a reduction of 40,000 full-time positions and other cost-cutting measures.
The union representing Britain's postal workers says it will call off strikes planned for later this week — and remain at work through the December holidays — after reaching an interim agreement with the Royal Mail.
The folks in Lantana, Fla. think the Postal Service would have to be nuts to close their post office and they're trying a coco-nutty way to prove it.
Workers for Britain's Royal Mail approved a nationwide strike Thursday after months of rolling regional strikes over pay and job security that have caused a massive backlog of undelivered letters and packages.
A former postal service employee has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 30,000 DVDs that moved through a western Massachusetts post office.
The House voted Tuesday to let the struggling U.S. Postal Service cover a budget shortfall by reducing its annual payment to a health care fund for retirees by $4 billion.
The Postal Service has narrowed the number of offices facing possible closure to 413.
The number of post offices being considered for possible closure to save money seems to be growing.
The Postal Service is offering $15,000 buyouts to employees in an effort to cut costs at a time when the post office is being buffeted by the recession and the popularity of e-mail and electronic bill payment.
An appeals court has reversed a federal judge's order that religious displays be removed from a Connecticut store that offers postal services.
Postmaster General John Potter is trying to think outside the mailbox. "We have a network of 37,000 retail outlets. America loves them and we want to keep as many open as possible, but we cannot just sell stamps in them," he told a Senate hearing Thursday.
The local post office long has been the center of many American communities, but with people turning increasingly to the Internet to send messages and pay bills, financial losses are forcing the Postal Service to consider consolidating or closing hundreds of local facilities.
A pillar of U.S. communities since the nation's founding, the post office is facing the prospect of closings or consolidation of services at hundreds of locations amid a sharp decline in business due to e-mail.
The Government Accountability Office on Tuesday added the Postal Service to its list of high-risk federal agencies in need of change.
A Northern California postal worker has been sentenced to five months in federal prison for stealing money from children's birthday cards.
The annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive collected a record 73.4 million pounds of food this year despite the weak economy.
The U.S. Postal Service has cut its staff by 25,000 this year as it struggles to reduce massive deficits, Postmaster General John Potter said Monday.
The post office wants two more pennies for your thoughts. The price of a first-class stamp for mailing a letter — or paying a bill — climbed to 44 cents Monday, though folks who planned ahead and stocked up on Forever stamps will still be paying the lower rate.
The post office was $1.9 billion in the red for the second quarter of the fiscal year and continues to face the possibility of running out of money before year's end.
The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday it plans to close three mail-processing centers and eliminate approximately 1,490 jobs in West Virginia, Indiana and Arizona.
The post office will run out of money this year unless it gets help, Postmaster General John Potter told Congress on Wednesday as he sought permission to cut delivery to five days a week.
The U.S. Postal Service has already suggested dropping a day of mail delivery to save money. Now, with economic gloom everywhere, it's turning to early retirements, management cutbacks and office closings.
The post office will get an extra 2-cents worth when you mail a letter starting in May.
Think you know what time your mail arrives each day? Think again.
The Postal Rate Commission urged Congress on Friday to keep an eye on postal finances, which have been suffering in the current economic climate, in case changes become necessary.
Postal Agency Set To Become First Un Body To Have Own Internet Domain Name The Universal Postal Union (UPU), the world's second-oldest international organization and one of the few United Nations agencies to pre-date the creation of the mother organization, moved a step closer today to becoming the first to have its own domain name on the Internet – …
I don't understand why the postal service doesn't compensate letter carriers who were hired after April 1984 for accumulated sick leave hours that were unused. There lots of carriers with over 400 hours of sick leave when they retire.
Revenge Of The Nerd: What The Media Won't Tell You About The Rampage Killer Who Attacked A Pittsburgh Aerobics ClassThis is one of the clearest and most painful "going postal" rampage massacres I've studied, and I've looked at a lot of them.
Confessions of a Man Who Almost Went PostalWhen a gunman killed 13 in Binghamton, N.Y., last week, reactions ranged from sorrow to fear, anger, and—self-recognition? Mansfield Frazier explains the time, 40 years ago, when he nearly went postal.
U.S. Postal Service seeks $25 billion federal bailoutThe U.S. Postal Service — known in the tech world as "snail mail" — is in the midst of a financial meltdown of its own.
U.S. Postal Service offering early retirement to 150,000 workers - Los Angeles TimesUS Postal Services will be offering Early retirement and will be closing offices.
F.B.I. Presents Anthrax Details but Says It Can't Erase Doubts - NYTimes.comFederal Bureau of Investigation officials on Monday laid out their most detailed scientific case to date against Bruce E.
Uwe Boll's Postal Movie Wins 'Best of Show'Attendees of the Hoboken International Film Festival cast their ballots, and the results are in: Postal has come out on top. According to a release from developer, Running With Scissors, Postal was nominated in five categories, with director Uwe Boll scoring Best Director.
Movie Review: Bikini-Clad Virgins Go `Postal; Cusack Hits Sauce Rick Warner writes: More than 280,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that German schlockmeister Uwe Boll stop making movies. Expect that number to skyrocket following the U.S.
Posted pythons wreak havoc at German mail depotSnakes on the loose sent police scrambling in two German cities on Friday as a trio of tiger pythons invaded a post office and a giant boa constrictor slunk under a garage. The metre-long pythons bit their way out of a small cardboard box at the main post office in the centra …
Postal vote fraud 'could throw local election results into chaos', warns Rowntree Reform Trust The British voting system is vulnerable to large-scale fraud, a report warns today. The study, by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, claims measures to improve choice for voters are damaging the integrity of the electoral process.
In a strange disorder, the delivery of a Birthday Card was delayed by 93 years in Washington. The recipient Ethel Martin was unfortunately expired few years back. The post Master was baffled by the situation. The card was finally delivered to his brother's wife yesterday.
Christmas card arrives 93 years lateA postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas. ADVERTISEMENT
Christmas Card Arrives 93 Years Late Family gets Christmas card...92 years later...
The Height of Tasteless Humor? Uwe Boll's Postal clip on Virgins and 9/11The first three minutes of schlock director Uwe Boll's "Postal" are online just in time to commemorate September the 9th. And it might very well be the event horizon of bad taste comedy....
"You Dumb F*ck": Uwe Boll responds to Wired's review of Postal movieUwe Boll isn't happy with Wired's review of Postal. We attended the US premiere of the game-to-movie director's latest film and didn't find it especially funny. Boll, in turn, doesn't find us especially funny. Here's the email we receieved [sic] yesterday evening:
Larry Thomas, "Seinfeld" "Postal" actor/Soup Nazi: Mr. Media InterviewLarry Thomas, the actor who played the Soup Nazi on "Seinfeld," is interviewed via audio podcast and transcription by Mr. Media, a.k.a., Bob Andelman.
Exclusive interview: Uwe Boll, the devil himself?Destructoid talks with one of the most notorious directors in the world, Uwe Boll, for what may be his most interesting and open interview yet. Boll talks Postal, criticism and 9/11 conspiracies in this Destructoid exclusive. Please enjoy.
Uwe Boll Makes 9/11 Joke in New Game-based FilmOh, Uwe, Uwe, Uwe... Gamers and movie critics alike have long hated him for his slipshod renditions of movies based on video game properties. When he announced he'd be making one based on the controversial 90s game "Postal" he did warn people he'd offend everyone.
The Reel Report - February 2007This months includes news on the upcoming films 'Saw IV', 'Incredible Hulk', what will be Anna Nicole Smith's final film 'Illegal Aliens', the latest trailers, box office rankings, & more.
Trying to stamp out unwanted junk mailTalking about snailmail here...
Pa. letter carrier attacked by squirrel One more hazard that the Bush administration has failed to keep Americans safe from: deranged squirrels.
EU to order open postal marketsThe European Commission is preparing to tell member states to open their postal markets to full competition by 2009.
New School Fundraiser- Kids' Art StampsArtStamps, a Connecticut company, has begun converting student art into U.S. postage -- marking the first time that children's color drawings will appear on real 39-cent stamps.
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor dwindling blue boxesAround the nation, the ubiquitous neighborhood blue mailboxes like the ones Graffin counts on are becoming harder to find because the U.S. Postal Service is reducing its stock as the nation sends fewer first-class letters.
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