U.S. Postal Service wants its plastic crates back

U.S. Postal Service wants its plastic crates back - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com: "You know those plastic mail crates that say United States Postal Service on the side? You know, the ones sitting in the corner collecting dust or being used to store stuff at your job?

The Postal Service wants them back, and the agency is sending postal inspectors around to area businesses to collect."

Fewer Holiday Cards Being Mailed

Fewer Holiday Cards Being Mailed - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver#-#-: "There will be a little less cheer being delivered by the postman this year.

The U.S. Postal Service said it is shipping significantly less packages and cards this holiday year compared to normal. This coming a day after the busiest day of the year for the postal service.

On Monday, the U.S. Postal Service Denver mail processing center – usually one of the busiest in the nations – handled 3.1 million cards and letters. That figure was second in the nation, behind Phoenix, out of over 250 processing centers in the nation."

FedEx Cuts Wages, Will Other Companies Follow?

FedEx Cuts Wages, Will Other Companies Follow?: "FedEx’s announcement today of a 20% pay reduction for CEO Frederick W. Smith, 7.5%-10% cuts for other senior FedEx executives and a 5% decrease for remaining U.S. salaried exempt personnel wasn’t in direct response to easing prices. The company cited weakened economic conditions as the reasons for the wage cuts, which were accompanied by the elimination of merit-based pay increases and a suspension of 401(k) matching."

Glitch, high traffic knock Postal Service tools offline

Glitch, high traffic knock Postal Service tools offline: "A computer glitch and a huge amount of traffic combined to knock various U.S. Postal Service Web-based services offline this week.

The problems started Monday morning, according to Michael Woods, a spokesman for the Postal Service. He noted that several different online tools, including the Postal Service's popular Click-N-Ship service, were suffering outages. Some of the services were taken offline to let technicians work on the problem.

Woods said the service's IT workers weren't yet sure what caused the service problems but said that all of the services except for Click-N-Ship were back functioning properly by this morning"

Americans hail a postman's junk-mail jihad

Americans hail a postman's junk-mail jihad | csmonitor.com: "Numerous groups try to trim the burden of 100 billion pieces of mail a year."