U.S. Postal Service Cancels Saturday Mail?

U.S. Postal Service Has Proposed Canceling Saturday Mail; Congress Has Final Say
By Ryan Christopher DeVault
The U.S. Postal Service has stopped delivering Saturday mail. Imagine if that was the headline on your local newspaper when you woke up to get the mail on one Saturday in the fall. The idea to cancel Saturday mail is being presented by Postmaster General Potter as a way to save money for a struggling U.S. Postal Service. Where on one hand it may seem like a far off concept, on the other hand it also seems to make a lot of sense in an industry that has been struggling to do battle with e-mail and text messaging. It could be a massive change for those that have come to depend on Saturday mail over the years, but it may be quite necessary to get the U.S. Postal Service out of the red in the end.

Sending Mail to Germany? How to Find Postal Codes

How to Find Postal Codes (Postleitzahlen) Using Deutsche Post, the German Postal Site
By Carol McKenzie
The Deutsche Post Site (http://www.deutschepost.de/) is excellent, with an English language version that makes searching for a postal code quick and easy. To access the English site, click the word "English" in the pale yellow box in the center of the screen.

What the Postal Carrier Really Brings in the Mail

Remember the Postal Carrier This Holiday Season
By Debra Phillips
Everyone is cutting back this holiday season, but the postal carrier is one person who tends to be overlooked even during the most lavish of holidays.
The postal carrier is something of an unsung hero. Quietly, each day, he or she bundles up mail for entire communities and stops by houses, one by one, to deliver cards, letters, and packages of various sizes and weights from locations nearby and afar. Only Santa Claus is known for so many single stops at individual homes during a given day, but the postal carriers repeat their rounds daily throughout the year. Through all

A Bailout for the Postal Service?

A Bailout for the Postal Service is One of the Few Bailouts I Agree With
By Donald Pennington
Is the United States Postal Service seeking a bailout? According to reports from news sources like www.CNSNews.com they are.
But, rather than asking for a typical bailout like the industries that Washington's wishing to federalize, the Postal Service is seeking assistance from Congress. That, in itself, begs the question that, if it's not a taxpayer funded type of bailout, what type of bailout is it? Isn't everything done by the government taxpayer funded?
What the Postal Service is asking for is old fashioned, common sense help from Congress.