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Adding Magic to Your Holiday Greetings
In addition to getting rid of stress so you can enjoy the Christmas season, another reason to get your cards ready now is you can get your cards postmarked at the Post Office where Santa and all his elves conduct their postal business — North Pole, Alaska.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Postal Service Loses $3.8 Billion for Fiscal 2009
The Postal Service is cutting costs and getting smaller. It still lost $3.8 billion in fiscal year 2009 as mail volume declined 12.7%.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Postal Service Customer Satisfaction Reaches 4-Year High
94 percent of customers surveyed rated the Postal Service as "excellent, very good or good" in the period July 1 to Sept. 30, 2009.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Letter Carrier Delivers Safe Performance
Think about pulling in and out of traffic, hundreds of times a day, while delivering mail without an at-fault accident — not even a fender-bender involving a mailbox, trashcan or decorative rock. Here is a Postal Service employee who has accomplished that feat.
Posted: November 12, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
D.C. District Court Clarifies Employees' Obligation to Exhaust Administrative Remedies Before Filing in Court
To have jurisdiction in a federal court, a federal employee must show that he exhausted his administrative remedies by allowing the agency and/or Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to process the case. Trouble arises in cases where a federal employee exhausted his administrative remedies for the underlying discrimination complaint, but not for claims of retaliation.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
When the Prize is Safety, Every Employee Wins
What's up? Letter carriers and retail associates in their crisp blue uniforms, rural carriers and maintenance employees in casual attire, and managers and dignitaries in suits mingle around the staging area shaking hands and patting each other on the back.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Kentucky Rail Museum Opens Railway Mail Service Car
Racing across this vast nation, Railway Postal Clerks sorted mail aboard specially retrofitted train cars. The Railway Mail Service revolutionized the way mail was processed and distributed for more than a century.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Planning Ahead: Getting Holiday Greetings To Our Troops On Time
If you are mailing to a loved-one serving in the military, it's a good idea to know the 2009 mail-by dates — some are less than a month away.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Supporting American Troops
The Postal Service has worked with the American and Vietnam Veterans of America launched a community fund drive and purchased food, clothing, stationery and phone cards to send to members of the military from the local area.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Love Arrives in a Military Care Package
It could be the plot of a romance novel — Pennsylvania woman sends care package to soldier serving his country in Iraq. They correspond, they fall in love and they marry one month after he returns safety from the war zone.
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
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