USPS threat to end Saturday delivery runs customers off

Bloomberg Businessweek delivers the bad news to USPS

"...The publication, which is sent to print on Wednesday evening and shipped out by Thursday, is currently geared towards being in the reader’s hands by Saturday at the absolute latest. Once the cutbacks are put in place, that timetable would have become void in certain locations...."    

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More on privatization of the Postal Service

Predictions come true

"...Conspicuously absent from the paper is a proposal that the private entity assuming postal activities will inherit this $55 billion future health care liability with required payments of five billion dollars plus each year over an 11 year period. The paper is also silent on discounts or will the new entity be permitted to charge fixed rates for each class of mail? What about local, state and federal taxes?..."    

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Actor John Ratzenberger: USPS Lacks Common Sense

John Ratzenberger: USPS Lacks Common Sense

"...HuffPost Live's Alyona Minkovski sat down Friday with actor John Ratzenberger, famous for his role as mail carrier Cliff Clavin on the television series "Cheers." ..."    

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USPS Properties For Sale

USPS Properties For Sale

"...Postal Service properties listed for sale..."    

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The USPS would like to focus on cost-cutting its processing and transportation

USPS's Options: a $14B Annual Loss or a $2B Annual Profit

"...the USPS would like to focus on for cost-cutting is processing and transportation, which the agency estimates will account for $3.1 billion in savings. On a slide deck shown by Corbett, this was described as “consolidating excess network capacity.” Practically speaking, this measure entails reducing the 417 mail processing locations the USPS currently has to less than 250 facilities by 2015...."    

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Letter delivered sixty years late

Letter from boot camp in 1953 returned to sender

"...Sixty years later, that letter finally turned up, when the U.S. Postal Service gave it back to Rodgers, who's now living in southwestern Michigan...."    

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Front porch mailbox delivery saved in neighborhood

Post office backs away from curbside edict

"...Vaughan said that those in the neighborhood who have already erected curbside mailboxes can tear them down and revert back to home delivery via front porch mailboxes...."    

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Valentine, Texas

Valentine, Texas

"...these distances place Valentine far enough away from any other community that its post office must remain open at six hours a day according to USPS's POStPlan. By the new terminology it becomes a "Part-Time Post Office" (PTPO) that reports to the local postal District (in this case, Rio Grande). ..."    

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Well-liked postman retires

Edgmont Township bids farewell to favorite postman after three decades

"...Rick Schaefer, who was raised in Havertown and now lives in West Chester, retired from the U.S. Postal Service last week after 31 years of service. ..."    

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Beverly Hills Post Office to be relocated

USPS Finalizes Decision To Relocate Beverly Hills Post Office

"...After hearing a handful of appeals over the last several months, the United States Postal Service finalized its intentions..."    

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TSP iPhone app warning

TSP iPhone app warning (TSP Funds app)

"...Warning: Apple App store offering TSP App not sanctioned by TSP — A free iPhone App, TSP Funds, currently being offered through the Apple App store..."    

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Repeat safety violations costing USPS money

OSHA Cites Maine, Michigan Facilities For Unsafe Working Conditions

"...OSHA also issued the USPS a repeat citation on Nov. 15, 2012, and fined the agency $25,000 for safety violations at its Romulus MI facility. Electric tow motors were modified without prior written approval by the manufacturer, OSHA said, exposing employees to the potential to be struck by, crushed or caught in the modified tow...."    

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