Yesterday, the Senate passed a plan to help salvage the struggling U.S. Postal Service in an effort that could end up saving thousands of jobs and as many as 100 mail processing plants now slated to be shut down. The Senate voted 62-37 to help save the heavily-indebted Postal Service. Without assistance, the USPS would [...]

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Here are your top stories for this Friday evening, February 24, 2012: – USPS to cut 35,000 jobs – Rudd to challenge Gillard for Australian PM spot – UN appoints Annan as Syria envoy – Wandering planets outnumber stars

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Unless someone comes up with a few trillion dollars, the United States will soon become the only nation in the world without a postal service. Financial woes may lead to a suspension of postal operations by October. The U.S. Postal Service is now reporting quarterly losses of $3.3 billion, hurt by declining mail volume and [...]

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Here are your top stories for this Tuesday, December 6, 2011: – Barack Obama seeking payroll tax cut extension – U.S. Postal Service says mail delivery slowing down – France and Germany want euro changes – Elderly passenger says she was strip searched by TSA

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Here are your top stories for this Monday, December 5, 2011: – Exit polls show diminishing support for Putin – 13 injured when fans storm football field – Postal service could slow deliveries – Pandas arrive in Scotland

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Our generation needs its own version of “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this any more!” We just might have found it. In the video below, World War II Veteran Verne McGrew, from the village of McIndoe Falls, VT, sounds off on the problems facing America today. More than 300 people [...]

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It will cost you one penny more to use a stamp in 2012. Stamp prices will increase by one cent, to 45 cents, beginning on January 22, 2012, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced yesterday. The proposed stamp price hike is part of a series of changes that would also increase the price of a [...]

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Here are your top stories for this Wednesday, October 19, 2011: – Maryland police find remains believed to be missing boy William McQuain – Hillary Clinton visits Libya – Freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit welcomed home – USPS says it will cost another penny to mail a letter

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Is the USPS about to go the way of the dinosaur and the dodo bird? The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service reported an $8.5 billion loss in the fiscal year that ended in September and now says it will run out of money in 2012 if Congress doesn’t step in. The Postal Service will, at [...]

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Will you be going postal if your local post office closes? The United States Postal Service announced today it is reviewing 3,700 retail locations in all 50 states including Washington D.C. In a statement, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said customers are not using their local USPS offices the way that used to. “Our customer’s habits [...]

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A Maryland resident has been instructed to move his mailbox, after receiving mail there for 30 years. The mail carrier has been delivering mail to Edwin Shirk‘s mailbox on Shank Road in Clear Spring for close to three decades. Recently, though, he was told by the U.S. Postal Service that he must relocate his mailbox…at [...]

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I swear I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.  A mail carrier in Oregon has been suspended without pay for defecating on a lawn along his route. Insert your own joke about dropping of packages here. Don Derfler was watching his son and waiting for the mailman to arrive last week when he [...]

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