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Say Goodbye to Saturday Mail
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 …
Get Your USPS Fix While You Still Can
Someone is taking the Netflix price hike a little rough … The U.S. Postal Service is set to close nearly 3,700 locations beginning in January. The closures would affect almost every state and the Washington area, where dozens of post offices would close— from those servicing Congress in the U.S. …
Your WTF of the Week: Puppy Parcel
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 …
Famously Facebooked: It’s Been a While
We haven’t featured Facebook updates in quite a while. The reason: Most of the ridiculous updates have moved to Twitter. The quick service door at the US Post Office is a complete misnomer. We couldn’t agree more.
Don’t Knock the USPS
The USPS just wants to work as hard as most everyone else. [Five days a week] The Postal Service took the first formal step Wednesday toward cutting mail delivery to five days a week. [cough] FedEx [cough]
Like Our Last Trip To Vegas – Just Tryin’ To Break Even
From the same entity that now runs General Motors. The USPS lost $2.4 billion in the quarter ended in June and projects a net loss of $7 billion in fiscal 2009, outstanding debt of more than $10 billion and a cash shortfall of $1 billion. [success] Just trying to break …