When your losing six billion dollars it's chump change.
USPS Seeks Price Increase On Stamps, Pays Futurist $565K To Mull Over Future Of Stamps ? Consumerist
“It’s a treasure trove of information,” said James J. Wedick, a former F.B.I. agent who spent 34 years at the agency and who said he used mail covers in a number of investigations, including one that led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California on corruption charges...
This makes twice they've defaulted now. Things are going downhill and it's their pension system that's dragging them under. Lots of companies and the government are going to feel that particualr pain in the coming years. Too many pensions and not enough income to cover them. Well, I guess they...
I mailed some packages at the U.S. Post Office today. At the counter, I overheard the cashiers discussing a customer who wanted some money orders printed in an amount totaling greater than $3,000. They were going to file a "Suspicious Transaction Report" on the man. He wanted $1000x10...
Expanded Access Study List - Indiana
Only a government ran, unionized shop could lose money with the vast income potential of the USPS. Even when considering the impact of the Internet, only a hopelessly bloated, inefficient entity could lose money.
Is your post office on the list? Looks...
The nearly insolvent U.S. Postal Service is going to start outfitting its trucks with sensors to collect data during the delivery route. We need them to thwart "terror attacks" by monitoring us and acting as spies. Don't you feel safer now?
Union Wants Mailmen To Thwart Terror Attacks |...
Bloomberg says that the USPS is nearing insolvency. The service passed a milestone of delivering more junk mail than actual First Class mail. Another big part of the problem is the size of their retiree pension plan. It will have to reinvent itself or possibly collapse.
The U.S. Postal...
I know that post offices have been the subject of much discussion on whether or not it is considered a federal building that does not allow CC. However, without really thinking, I forgot to remove my CCW before I went in. It dawned on me as I was going in the front door and there were some...
Post Office Court Case Says No Guns in Post Offices
^^Here's a report on a Fifth Circuit Court ruling on a case involving a man bringing a handgun onto post office property.
Looks like he might have been an employee from the wording of the decision.
The utterly terrifying thing about this...