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The Post Office's salvation can fit on a stamp
In Robert Heinlein's classic novella, "The Man Who Sold the Moon," an entrepreneur raises money for a lunar expedition by warning a soft-drink company that, without its support, he might have to turn to a competitor that will pay him to display its logo...Tags: Advertising, Microsoft Corporation, U.S. Congress, Authors, Mail Order Industry
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Letters: Fighting cellphone 'cram' fees
Re "To FCC: Ban cell 'cram' billing," Column, March 29 David Lazarus' article on the evils of cellphone cramming delineates the financial problems and conflicts of interests involved in having the receiving party pay for unauthorized charges. His...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage
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Paul A. Kline, 87
Paul Andrew Kline, 87, of 17811 Timberlane in Hagerstown, Md., passed away Thursday, March 28, 2013, at Meritus Medical Center near Hagerstown. Born July 2, 1925, in Hagerstown, he was the son of the late Charles Edwin Kline and Mary (Renner) Kline....Tags: U.S. Army, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Maryland State Police, Armed Forces
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Postal workers in Michigan protest end to Saturday service
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of postal workers who oppose plans to cut home delivery from six days to five picketed Sunday outside U.S. Postal Service offices in Michigan. About 600 U.S. Postal Service employees and their supporters marched...
Tags: Mail Order Industry, The Detroit News, Patrick R. Donahoe, Government Postal Delivery
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Another victory for the big babies
Change of SubjectNews: Congress foiled the financially beleaguered U.S. Postal Service's plan to end Saturday delivery of first-class mail on Thursday when it passed legislation requiring six-day delivery. The Postal Service, which lost $16 billion last year, had said... -
Local postal workers rally to keep Saturday delivery
julieg@herald-mail.comMore than 100 people attended a rally Sunday afternoon in downtown Hagerstown that a local branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers held to advocate maintaining six-day delivery of mail. In February, the postal service announced plans to cut...Tags: U.S. Congress, Mail Order Industry, Patrick R. Donahoe
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Village post office opens on Sharpsburg Pike
dona@herald-mail.comAt a time when the U.S. Postal Service is recommending cutting Saturday service, it is actually adding outlets for customers in the form of village post offices such as the one at May’s Service Center at 8708 Sharpsburg Pike, where a grand opening...Tags: U.S. Congress, Interior Policy, Mail Order Industry, Politics, Pension and Welfare
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Larry Wellborn: Scaling back on postal services
The Postal Service has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. The Postal Service has lost billions of dollars while losing market share to electronic forms of communication. But this is not entirely the fault of the Post Office or the...Tags: Public Finance, Consumer Confidence, Employees, U.S. Congress, Consumers
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Freistatt post office again seems doomed to close
areynolds@ky3.comFREISTATT, Mo -- The Freistatt post office seems to be on schedule to close -- again. U.S. Postal Service officials say they can't reach a lease agreement with the owner of the building. The lease ends on April 1. People in this small town in...Tags: Mail Order Industry
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Local post offices to reduce hours
Facing dwindling mail volume, seven post offices in Orange County are shrinking their hours of operation starting April 1. The Costa Mesa Post Office at 1590 Adams Ave., the Irvine Harvest Station at 17192 Murphy Ave. and the Irvine Post Office at...Tags: Mail Order Industry, Politics, Lobbying, Government Postal Delivery
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Postal workers ignore cold, protest closing of Martinsburg processing plant
richardb@herald-mail.comAbout 50 area postal workers ignored Sunday afternoon’s windswept cold to protest plans by the U.S. Postal Service to close mail processing plants in Martinsburg and Cumberland, Md., and to end Saturday mail delivery. Postal union members from...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Company Privatization, Employees, Financial and Business Services
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Letter from boot camp in 1953 returned to sender
NILES, Mich. (AP) — An ex-soldier living in southwestern Michigan says the U.S. Postal Service has returned a letter he wrote to his wife from boot camp 60 years ago. Then-Pvt. Bob Rodgers says he'd just arrived for basic training at Fort Campbell,...
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