Falling numbers are adding up to Postal Service cuts

Falling numbers are adding up to Postal Service cuts : Home: The Buffalo News These are difficult times for the 7,574 people who sort and deliver mail in Western New York. Bone-chilling temperatures, icy sidewalks and deep snowbanks are just part of the problem.

Netflix Considers Weekend Delivery While Post Office Contemplates Saturday Elimination

Netflix Considers Weekend Delivery While Post Office Contemplates Saturday Elimination | homemediamagazine.com: "Netflix has begun shipping DVD rentals from distribution centers on Saturdays in select regions despite warnings from the U.S. Postal Service that it may suspend weekend mail delivery in order to cut costs"

USPS In Financial Crisis, PMG Potter Tells Congress

PostalReporter.com Blog » USPS In Financial Crisis, PMG Potter Tells Congress: "PMG Jack Potter today told a U.S. Senate subcommittee that worsening conditions in the economy now point to a further 12-15 billion mailpiece decline and a net financial loss of $6 billion or more in FY 2009."

Postal Service seeks end to Saturday delivery

Postal Service seeks end to Saturday delivery requirement - Federal news, government operations, agency management, pay & benefits - FederalTimes.com: "Top U.S. Postal Service officials Wednesday afternoon are expected to ask legislators to remove the Saturday delivery requirement.
Sources say Postmaster General John Potter will make that request in his opening statement to a Senate subcommittee.

The Postal Service isn’t looking to immediately drop Saturday delivery; it will likely study the issue first. And it could take a lesser action, such as temporarily suspending Saturday delivery during periods of low mail volume."

Mail call

The Vicksburg Post > News > Mail call: "Swift changes have come in recent years to the ways people must send letters and packages to one another — affecting everything from pickup locations to lengths some locals must go to purchase postage stamps."

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."