Building on Efficiency Source: United States Department of Energy
Two administration-led, industry-driven efforts marked milestones today.
Postal Service aims direct-mail deal at small businessesSource: USA Today
If your small company has 15 cents, the United States Postal Service wants your business.
The USPS has launched a marketing campaign to promote "Every Door Direct Mail," a shipping service for small business with postage rates starting at 14.5 cents.
"Every Door Direct Mail i …
Christmas package arrives 1 year and 6 days laterSource: The Denver Post
The package Mary Beth Mauldin sent via the United States Postal Service last December finally arrived in Florida on Dec. 16—one year and six days after it was mailed from Greenbrier, Ark.
Mail Worker Union Goes Postal on Tea Party Source: FOXNews.com
In what appears to be an attempt to overwhelm their critics, postal union members have sent more than 100 pounds of mail to a tea party group advocating for United States Postal Service reform.
Donna Wiesner Keene of TheTeaParty.net told The Daily Caller the group receives its …
OpEdNews - Article: Destroying the Postal Service in Order to Save It?Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive
The big lie seems to be working. Most Americans now believe that the U.S. Postal Service is on the verge of a financial collapse. The explanation seems logical: email, too many post offices, unnecessary six-day delivery, overpaid and underproductive workers.

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree
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17 charged in $20M mortgage fraud caseSource: longislandpress.com
Seventeen people were rounded up in connection with an alleged $20 million mortgage fraud scheme in Nassau County, New York — the largest in its history — which authorities say ripped off homeowners, banks, and county taxpayers

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE
The United States Postal Service Takes Another Small Step Toward its Demise

When I worked for Lexington, KY's main P.O. sorting facility in the mid1980s, we dressed casually. But a group in dress clothes came in sometimes and walked in circles around the facility.
Homeless Man Charged in Two Wichita Bank RobberiesSource: Dept of Justice, US States Attorney, FBI
WICHITA, KS—Shane Pluimer, 31, is charged with two counts of bank robbery. The indictment alleges that July 9, 2010, he robbed the Conway Bank at 11122 E. Central in Wichita, and July 10, 2010, he robbed the Emprise Bank at 2323 S. Hydraulic in Wichita.

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE
Postal Service Gets Break, Union Officials Get Paid, And Workers Get the Shaft - Again

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE
Postal Service Employee Abuse Spur Call for Citizen Action Group