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• What rate hikes at UPS will mean for you

  
  Lucrative Investing — Authority: 529
  The shipping and delivery market is not doing well right now. Companies are facing bigger losses and have to do something about it because they simply cannot lay off any more people. So now, these companies are going to start raising rates and it’s going to begin with the world’s biggest shipper: UPS. In 2010, ...
  6 hours ago

• USPS redesigns to aid Mac users

  
  The Postal Newsgroup — Authority: 133
  "...hassle came when trying to do all this with an Apple Macintosh computer and Mac OS X version 10.6. The Postal Services site says its Web service is geared toward computers running Microsofts Internet Explorer and does not support Apples Safari Web browser...."    This Article is From: ...
  16 hours ago

• Postal Service to resume North Pole Santa letters

  
  Today is a good news day — Authority: 127
  "Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santas elves at the North Pole after all." Click here to read more about North Pole mail service. Visit www.goodnewsnow.com for your daily dose of good news.
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• USPS Address Verification

  
  Content for Reprint Blog — Authority: 152
  The greater part of the American population, no matter their socioeconomic position is, and even in the era of technology and the internet in today’s day and age, still get one unavoidable thing: the mail. The mandate is that if you have an address, you get mail brought to you by the hard working people in the ...
  2 days ago

• You’re a Mean One, Mr. U.S.P.S. Grinch

  
  Front Page — Authority: 123
  The United States Postal Service just cancelled the 55-year-old Santa Letter Program. Basically, any letters sent to Santa without a specific address will now be shredded.Since 1954, the good citizens of the small, friendly town of North Pole, Alaska have volunteered to open and reply to children’s letters, posing ...
  2 days ago

• Mail Volumes Have Declined Faster Than The Postal Workforce, But That Might Change

  
  Dead Tree Edition — Authority: 120
  The U.S. Postal Service’s workforce reductions did not keep pace with declines in mail volume the past two years, but postal officials indicate that may change this fiscal year.Mail volume was down 13% and revenue was down 9%, but the number of career employees declined only 6% in the fiscal year that ended ...
  3 days ago

• NO MORE LETTERS TO SANTA AT NORTH POLE??????

  
  Northwoods Wanderings — Authority: 121
  I found this in the YahooNews file……..what is happening to us? Grinch! North Pole irked at end to Santa replies By RACHEL D’ORO, Associated Press Writer Rachel D’oro, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 41 mins ago ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole ...
  3 days ago

• Doesn’t Take a Grinch to Steal Christmas

  
  BernieHund: The Political Watchdog — Authority: 115
  It doesn’t tak a Grinch to steal Christmas this year.  The United States Post Office beat him to the punch.  In fact, it seems the USPS is throwing Santa out with the sex offender this year. Postal Service officials said they are tightening rules in such programs nationwide after a postal worker in Maryland ...
  4 days ago

• USPS Ends Popular North Pole Santa Letters Program

  
  The Vibe - The World According to SocialVibe — Authority: 484
  Youngsters around the world are going to be a little blue this upcoming Christmas season, as the US Postal Service is officially ending their decades-long Letters to Santa program that earns children a response letter from Santas elves and helpers, postmarked in the North Pole. The program begun in the small Alaska ...
  4 days ago

• North Pole, Alaska, Forced Out Of Santa Letter Program [Christmas]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 789
  New security rules have proven too complex for Alaskas post offices to bear, so theyre ending their participation in Operation Santa , the 50-year-old program where letters addressed to "Santa Claus, North Pole" are answered by volunteers. The program will continue elsewhere, reports the Associated Press, but when I ...
  4 days ago

• Savings Experiment: Which shipping option is the cheapest and fastest?

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 726
  Filed under: Video Our own Jane Tuv put FedEx, UPS and the US post office to the test for the latest savings experiment to find out how to best get your gifts to their intended recipients this holiday season. Her results may surprise you -- watch below and see how waiting it out in line at your local post office may ...
  4 days ago

• USPS possible-closings list about to get shorter

  
  The Postal Newsgroup — Authority: 133
  "...On Friday, there will be a new list released by the government agency that contains a smaller number of branches still subject to consolidation...."    This Article is From: www.news-sentinel.comRead our latest posts! .
  4 days ago

• North Pole, Alaska, Wont Send Letters From Santa Anymore

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 596
  A little less holiday cheer from North Pole Image from Flickr. People in North Pole, Alaska, are upset that the towns long-standing tradition of letters from Santa is coming to an end. People all over the United States will be affected by the change, as the Postal Service is dropping the national program that ...
  4 days ago

• Augmented reality invades media, Postal Service

  
  I Think — Authority: 129
  Image via Wikipedia Some say it’s here, some say it’s not… Augmented reality is embraced by more and more media outlets. Esqiure, a magazine for whose Romanian edition I write from time to time takes the lead. Esquire magazine plans to use next month that will let readers hold the December issue up to ...
  4 days ago

• Ring Bell Next Doorway [Flickr]

  
  B12 Solipsism — Authority: 148
  swanksalot posted a photo: wonder if they have as much getting Chicago USPS to deliver as we do?
  4 days ago

• Clerk and Mail Handler November Contractual Pay Increse

  
  The Postal Newsgroup — Authority: 133
  "...Postal employees covered under the APWU-USPS and NPMHU-USPS Collective Bargaining Agreements will receive a 1.2 percent increase in annual salaries effective Nov. 21. The raise will be reflected in paychecks issued Dec. 11, 2009...."    This Article is From: postal-newsgroup.blogspot.comRead our latest posts! .
  5 days ago

• Putz Goes Postal On Mailbox

  
  Sheepshead Bites — Authority: 138
  Some morons committed a federal crime today when they set a mailbox on fire at Stillwell Avenue and Avenue T.  Firefighters were on scene as early as 10:35 a.m. (this photo was taken at 10:40 a.m.) doing their best to put out the flames while preserving the mail, but the damage was done and much [...]
  5 days ago

• A number of things in the news that caught my eye

  
  Van Santos — Authority: 434
  A number of things to take note of Alvaro de Molina, GMAC Financial Service head, out Only 19 months as head of the troubled financial services unit, not a good sign, and he was kicked out by the board no less. I wonder how much this action speaks about the current condition of the company. Michael ...
  5 days ago

• US Postal Service Holds Reverse Lottery

  
  Constant Conservative — Authority: 137
  Word is that the US Post Office lost $3,800,000,000 in FY 2009. Based on the latest numbers I could find (from June 30 of this year) that is a loss of just over $6100 per employee . Further, we are told that this was true even though the men and women in blue worked fewer hours to compensate for less mail. Did I ...
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• Government Mail Loses $3.8 Billion

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 743
  The U.S. Postal Service reported that it lost $3.8 billion last fiscal year and that it expects to lose $7.8 billion this year. The loss occurred despite cost-cutting measures and legislation that allowed the USPS to forgo $4 billion in required payments to pre-fund retiree health benefits. From the Associated ...
  5 days ago

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