The U.S. Postal Service tried to push the envelope. Then it folded.
Postal officials, seeking savings to reduce losses that totaled $2.8 billion last year, proposed moving the transparent window on business envelopes a fraction of an inch higher and to the right to improve mail handling.
They also said Jan. 22 that they were considering requiring [...]
Many organizations are increasing their focus on sustainability - efforts to find more efficient and effective ways to do business profitability while lessening the negative impact of current operations on future generations.
This best practices article discusses one U.S. Postal Service sustainability initiative: the “green” redesign of expedited packaging. Leadership and collaboration drove the success of [...]
The morning after Barack Obama won the presidency, the satirical newspaper “The Onion,” the Minneapolis paper which can make you cringe, cry, or roar with laughter, had this headline: “Black Man Given World’s Worst Job.” The lead paragraph emphasized the fact that the new president would have to spend from four to eight years “cleaning [...]
ACT IMMEDIATELY if you believe that your child is missing.
* If your child is missing from home, search the house checking closets, piles of laundry, in and under beds, inside large appliances, and inside vehicles, including trunks—wherever a child may crawl or hide.
* If you still cannot find your child, immediately call your local law [...]
Nearly every person in the world has old gold and used jewelry laying around in their dresser drawers, safety deposit box, or jewelry box. Some of these things have not been worn in years or are simply out of date. Perhaps somebody gave you a piece of jewelry and you don’t wear it anymore. Now [...]
Aiken Branch NAACP president Brendolyn Jenkins, right, and Aiken Post Office postmaster Kathy Jenks formally unveil large replicas of 12 civil rights leaders commemorated in a six-stamp collection.
Every year the U.S. Postal Service issues a stamp honoring a civil rights leader.
The NAACP is celebrating its 100th anniversary this month and, on this occasion, the Postal [...]
Big Music Box
Goodyear pilot Jack Boettner deftly maneuvered his airship as it bobbed in the gusting wind.
While the blimp Puritan hovered 150 feet above its rooftop target, mechanic August O’Neil lowered a hook from the cabin, snagged a heavy cloth sack and reeled it back into the gray sky.
The blimp immediately set course for Akron Municipal Airport, [...]
I have selected a beautiful lighthouse for today’s post which is scheduled to be issued in 2009 by US Postal service. The 1848 landmark is one of five Gulf Coast lighthouses that will be part of a series of stamps. The lighthouses were chosen because they’ve weathered so many powerful storms, including Hurricane Katrina. “It’s [...]
Amazon’s annual regulatory filing, released yesterday, contains a curious disclosure: “In January 2009, we learned that the United States Postal Service, including the Postal Service Office of Inspector General, is investigating our compliance with Postal Service rules, and we are cooperating.”