Congress passes bill to combat multi-billion-dollar tobacco smuggling industry Congress has moved to stamp out a multibillion-dollar tobacco trafficking industry that has enriched criminals and terrorists and made it easier for kids to buy cigarettes online. A bill cracking down on smugglers ...
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: March 15 Loveland (Colo.) Daily Reporter-Herald on why change in credit rules is a positive step: There's a justice in overdraft protection fees: Those who are careless in their spending ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
<div><p> When letter carrier Gene Kahl noticed mail piled up at the home of an elderly couple along his Pensacola [Fla.] delivery route, he made chalk marks on their car tires, and after determining that it hadn't moved days later, called police, ...
