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U.S. Postal Service relents, cancels plan to trim Saturday service
WASHINGTON--The US Postal Service has canceled a plan to end Saturday letter delivery this summer, conceding Wednesday that Congress had won a recent legal bout over the agency's attempt to cut costs. The USPS had announced in February that letter...
Tags: Government, U.S. Congress, Executive Branch, Mail Order Industry, U.S. Postal Service
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U.S. Postal Service issues stamped envelope with illustration by Md. artist
The U.S. Postal Service issued an illustration of a bank swallow by Maryland artist Matt Frey Friday as a stamped envelope, the second in a four-part series of swallows by Frey commissioned by the organization. The bird is the smallest swallow in North...Tags: Mail Order Industry, U.S. Postal Service
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Forever stamps: U.S. Postal Service releases vintage seed packet designs
The U.S. Postal Service welcomes spring with the new Vintage Seed Packets Commemorative Forever stamps. These first-class stamps, based on photographs of seed packets from a century ago, were dedicated at the Philadelphia National Stamp Exhibition....
Tags: Media Industry, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Mail Order Industry, U.S. Postal Service
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Five questions with ... John Kennedy
Helping companies save money on postage can bring in the big bucks. Baltimore-based Three Dog Logistics picks up mail from clients with high volumes, "commingles" it with other client mail going to the same ZIP code and delivers it closer to the end...
Tags: Media Industry, Marketing, Lifestyle and Leisure, Corporate Officers, Economy, Business and Finance
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South suburban crime briefs: April 3
A 63-year-old Tinley Park resident was swindled out of nearly $4,000 by a mystery shopper scam that promised to pay her $200 for critiquing Western Union financial transactions, police said.. The rip-off began on March 3 with a letter that told the...
Tags: Theft, Court Preliminary, Personal Service, New York City, Banking
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The Post Office's salvation can fit on a stamp
In Robert Heinlein's classic novella, "The Man Who Sold the Moon," an entrepreneur raises money for a lunar expedition by warning a soft-drink company that, without its support, he might have to turn to a competitor that will pay him to display its logo...Tags: Auction Service, Mail Order Industry, Starbucks Corp., Robert Heinlein, Abraham Lincoln
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Anchorage Postal Workers Rally to Protect Saturday Mail Delivery
Channel 2 NewsMore than a hundred postal workers and supporters braved the cold and snow and held a rally against plans to cut Saturday delivery service at busy intersection in Anchorage. On Sunday afternoon, concerned citizens and postal workers wore t-shirts,...Tags: Financial and Business Services, U.S. Congress, Mail Order Industry, U.S. Postal Service
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Postal workers in Michigan protest end to Saturday service
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of postal workers who oppose plans to cut home delivery from six days to five picketed Sunday outside U.S. Postal Service offices in Michigan. About 600 U.S. Postal Service employees and their supporters marched...
Tags: Patrick R. Donahoe, The Detroit News, Mail Order Industry, U.S. Postal Service
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Village post office opens on Sharpsburg Pike
dona@herald-mail.comAt a time when the U.S. Postal Service is recommending cutting Saturday service, it is actually adding outlets for customers in the form of village post offices such as the one at May’s Service Center at 8708 Sharpsburg Pike, where a grand opening...Tags: Health Insurance, U.S. Congress, Mail Order Industry, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy
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Local post offices to reduce hours
Facing dwindling mail volume, seven post offices in Orange County are shrinking their hours of operation starting April 1. The Costa Mesa Post Office at 1590 Adams Ave., the Irvine Harvest Station at 17192 Murphy Ave. and the Irvine Post Office at...Tags: Lobbying, Mail Order Industry, U.S. Postal Service, Politics
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Postal workers ignore cold, protest closing of Martinsburg processing plant
richardb@herald-mail.comAbout 50 area postal workers ignored Sunday afternoon’s windswept cold to protest plans by the U.S. Postal Service to close mail processing plants in Martinsburg and Cumberland, Md., and to end Saturday mail delivery. Postal union members from...Tags: Government, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Company Privatization, Financial and Business Services
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A manufactured crisis
The Postal Service is not broke. The Postmaster General's plans to stop Saturday delivery of letters and theoretically save the USPS $2 billion a year, is a cut in service playing into the hands of those who want you to believe the post office is broke....Tags: Health Insurance Cost, FedEx Corporation, Mail Order Industry, U.S. Postal Service
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