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Sex offender with letter carrier job reassigned

AP News 7 days ago

Calif. sex offender with letter carrier job reassigned to post that doesn't deal with public A letter carrier who is a registered sex offender has been reassigned after concerns were raised that he was delivering mail in a San Diego suburb with ...

More notice urged in postal closings

AP News 7 days ago

Post office urged to give people more notice of office closings, more time to comment When the Postal Service wants to close a local office, it should give residents more notice and an increased chance to air their concerns and comments, the ...

Postal Service Proposes Eliminating Saturday Mail

consumeraffairs.com 9 days ago

Increased email, sagging economy, hurting USPS bottom line Saturday mail delivery would become a thing of the past under a proposal by the U.S. Postal Service's Postmaster General, John Potter. The nation's mail delivery system would also curtail overtime, continue to raise ...

Postal workers agree deal to end long dispute

AFP European Edition 9 days ago

Postal workers and state-owned Royal Mail have agreed a deal to end a long-running dispute over pay and modernisation that sparked a series of walkouts last year, both sides said. The agreement struck on Monday, which followed more than two months of ...

Postal Service's emerging model: Never on Saturday

AP Features 15 days ago

The post office is renewing its drive to drop Saturday delivery — and plans a rate increase — in an effort to fend off a projected $7 billion loss this year. Without drastic action the agency could face a cumulative loss of ...

Sweeping changes needed to save US post office

AFP American Edition 15 days ago

The 235-year-old US Postal Service must change the way it does business or risk going belly-up as the Internet eats into the mail market, driving post office revenues down, its head said Tuesday. "Lifestyles and ways of doing business have changed dramatically ...

Post office looks to cut costs as mail dips

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News 15 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Postal Service, faced with less mail and bigger shortfalls, plans to cut Saturday delivery and overtime, raise prices and trim its workforce by about 30,000, its chief financial officer, Joseph Corbett, said on Tuesday. Because of e-mail and ...

U.S. Postmaster General Suggests End To Saturday Delivery And Rate Hike

Getty Images 15 days ago

SAN FRANCISCO - MARCH 02: U.S. Postal Service lettercarrier Raymond Hou pushes a cart as he delivers mail along his route March 2, 2010 in San Francisco, California. U.S. Postmaster General John Potter will suggest the termination of Saturday mail delivery and ...

Questions: How did postal service get in this fix?

AP News 15 days ago

Questions about postal service's cash fix, Saturday delivery, and closing your post office The Postal Service unveiled a 10-year plan Tuesday for coping with its financially strapped future. Some questions and answers: Q. How did the post office get in this fix? ...

Japan post office should boost rural economy: minister

AFP Asian Edition 21 days ago

<div><p>Japan's post office and its huge pool of funds should be used to help revitalise local communities, the postal minister said Friday as the new government revisits its predecessor's privatisation efforts.</p><p>"We will think outside of the status quo. We will utilise the ...

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