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Postal Worker Retires After 44 Years Without Taking a Single Sick Day

Donald Deane — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:07:34 +0000

As the famous motto goes, "neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" stops dedicated postal workers. And as far as Deborah Ford is concerned, who retired from the USPS after more than four decades on the job without taking a single sick day, nothing else does either.

Are You Ready to Pay 50 Cents for a Stamp? — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:30:32 +0000

Facing huge budget shortfalls, the United States Postal Service has proposed solutions including closing hundreds of post offices and eliminating Saturday deliveries. Now it may be considering jacking up the price of stamps, too. The popularity of internet services like online bill pay have led in part to a 1.7 percent decline in mail volume, [...]

YOUR Input Is Needed: PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE-Area Mail Processing (AMP) Feasibility Study Completed

Cathy Kates — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:15:59 +0000

I want to share important information I received from the Superior Douglas County Chamber of Commerce. While I do some banking on-line and email rather than write letters, I still need my postal service for a variety of reasons. A feasibility study was conducted and now it's time to show you the results.

Watch a Mailman Get Run Over by His Own Mail Truck [VIDEO]

B105 Staff — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:00:46 +0000

What's funny about this video isn't just the fact that the mailman gets run over by his own mail truck after exiting the vehicle and leaving it in reverse.

It's that the unmanned mail truck is able to weave itself through the parking lot without causing any damage before it actually runs over the forgetful mailman. (Eventually, though, the runaway mail truck does start hitting parked cars.)

"That's the Wrong Statue of Liberty" and Other Postage Stamp Fails

B105 Staff — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:41:12 +0000

The United States Postal Service just released a new stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty. The only problem is, the Lady Liberty featured in the photo isn’t the one that has spent the last 125 years in New York Harbor, rather it’s a 14-year-old replica which currently sits in front of the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In real life, the casino Statue of Liberty is only half the size of the original. However, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between the two in the photo on the stamp.