Effective Jan. 18, the U.S. Postal Service is adjusting prices for some shipping services. These changes are consistent with the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 and affect Express Mail, Priority Mail, Parcel S elect, Parcel Return Service, Global Express Guaranteed, Express Mail International, Priority Mail International, and International Direct Sacks (Airmail M-Bags).
The price [...]
APPLETON — The days of buying postage by stuffing money in machines are gone here, outdated as a 29-cent first-class stamp.
The final 13 coin-operated stamp vending machines in the service area of the Appleton post office, which serves addresses in the zip codes 54911 through 54915, were “decommissioned” by the start of the year, Appleton [...]
A Scottsdale postal worker has pleaded guilty to stealing gift cards from letters on his route and using them to purchase items for himself.
Richard Allen Jones, 44, pleaded guilty Wednesday to theft of mail by a postal employee.
U.S. District Judge Mary H. Murguia is scheduled to sentence Jones in April.
The Cave Creek man faces up [...]
The U.S. Postal Service® has just issued a 42–cent, Celebrating Lunar New Year Year of the Ox commemorative stamp, designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland.
The U.S. Postal Service® introduced its Celebrating Lunar New Year series in 2008. This is the second stamp in that series, which will continue through 2019 with stamps for the [...]
Nothing can give better endorsement than to show where Linux succeeds. We all know businesses use Linux but sometimes we are hard pressed to name them in discussions. Most everybody knows of Ernie Ball but what about AutoZone, Wal-Mart and others and government entities. The list below comes from www.aaxnet.com
Please go to the web site [...]
In today’s environment of “lean”, TPM, reliability excellence, RCM, integrated maintenance/operations teams, new technologies and constant pressure to make maintenance more effective and elevate it to a prominent value-added position, the maintenance manager must become a business unit manager with equal footing with other plant functions.
Maintenance managers operate a business within a business. They have [...]
At this historic time in our nation’s history, it is especially fitting that we also have the opportunity to celebrate the birth and life of the legendary individualist anarchist and abolitionist Lysander Spooner.
Not only did he fight for a peaceful end to slavery in the United States, he also set up his own private post [...]
01/19/2009
A huge drop in the volume of mail passing through the U.S. Postal System will lead to consolidation of urban carrier routes, possibly affecting daily delivery times for millions.
Associated Press has reported that activities are underway to try and deal with the serious decline in mail volumes. “We’re facing the biggest decline since the Great [...]
Photo postage stamps aren’t such a new idea; its been around for years! The USPS (United States Postal Service) briefly suspended the use of such a stamp due to security concerns. There are certainly a number of reasons that the USPS would want to abolish all photo stamps, for example in the height of the [...]
IMMOKALEE - Over 50,000 fliers have been distributed in the hopes of finding a missing 6-year-old Florida boy.
The U.S. Postal Service and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children gave out the Saturday with information about Desir (AHD-gee De-ZEER).
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office said the boy disappeared from a village in Immokalee in [...]