Molly Mirhashem wrote a really good long read about how District communicators keep up with their always-buzzing inboxes. Recently, I asked approximately 25 D.C. communications staffers and reporters how they handle the deluge. What emerged was a portrait of a media-communications ecosystem that is starkly divided. There are members of …

And just when we ordered Netflix. President Obama’s budget proposal supports allowing the U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday mail deliveries, raise the price of stamps above the rate of inflation and recalculate how it plans to pay for the future retirements of postal workers. via the WaPo By Rdoke …

Republicans might have slashed the Committee on Global Warming, but the House of Representatives Post Office refuses to give up. Question: How many more pieces of mail will it take until staffers have to pole vault over the pile?

There’s a pretty good chance sobriety had nothing to do with this. [WTF] They’re calling it the parcel puppy. A Minneapolis woman is charged with animal cruelty after police say she tried to send a puppy through the mail. As to why? “Clearly there wasn’t a whole lot of thought …

Every day is an adventure on Capitol Hill.

No, seriously, we can’t figure it out. Swine flu? Germs? Chad Pergram: Chain Letter