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Bad Vibrations: Russian Bomb Squad Called to Disarm Sex Toy
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsA sex toy sparked a terror drill in Russia on Monday, when a bomb squad was summoned to defuse a vibrator. Anti-terrorism experts responded to a call from a post office in Petrozavodsk in the republic of Karelia, where an employee had discovered a package that was emitting a bizarre ticking noise, The Telegraph reports. "The post building was ringed by the security forces and people were evacuated," a police spokeswoman told the press. "In the package the bomb squad found a vibrator." The pleasure device -- which was deemed harmless -- had reportedly been turned on "by accident." The ...
Potty-Mouthed Postal Worker Accused of Spitting Feces on Cop
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsHe didn't talk back to police, but cops in Colorado say this suspect had a foul mouth. Law enforcement officials in Durango say a postal worker spit his excrement in a police officer's face after being arrested on drunken driving charges. After seeing Paul Andrew Kausalik, 61, make a turn without signaling late on Feb. 11, an officer pulled over the post office retail associate, according to The Durango Herald. ...
Two Tenn. Post Office Workers Killed in Shooting
By not in system - AOL NewsHENNING, Tenn. (Oct. 18) -- Two post office workers were killed Monday in a shooting at a post office in West Tennessee during a possible robbery attempt, authorities said. The Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department told The Associated Press that two female employees were killed Monday morning in what may have been a robbery at the Henning post office. Officers are searching for a maroon Chevrolet Malibu with two men inside. A witness told a state employee at the Tennessee Capitol in Nashville, Tony Burns, that the shooting happened during a robbery attempt. Burns said his sister-in-law, ...
Rate Board Denies Postal Service Price Hike Plea
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 30) - The independent panel that oversees the U.S. Postal Service has denied the agency's request to increase the cost of mailing a letter by 2 cents -- to 46 cents. The Postal Regulatory Commission announced its decision rejecting the requested price hike at a news conference Thursday. In July, the Postal Service proposed raising first-class postage from 44 cents to 46 cents as part of a strategy for dealing with a worsening financial crisis. The Postal Service lost $3.8 billion last year, and the agency has been seeking other rate increases as well, including higher fees ...
Postal Service Gets Backing From Key Senator on Halting Saturday Deliveries
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe U.S. Postal Service's plan to halt Saturday deliveries and close thousands of post offices has picked up the support of a key Democratic senator -- Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat who intends to offer a bill that would help the agency carry out the cost-saving changes. Carper, a longtime supporter of Postal Service leadership, would also allow postal outlets in retail stores, such as groceries, and authorize coordination with state governments to provide voter registration forms and driver's license applications, according to the Washington Post. Postmaster General John Potter, who has ...
Opinion: Congress Goes Postal
By John Merline - AOL News(Aug. 24) -- Pop quiz: Based on Congress' legislative output over the past year and a half, what do you think is the most pressing issue facing the country? The crummy economy? Terrorist threats? Health care costs? The sorry state of education? National defense? Global warming? Immigration? Answer: None of the above. Nope, the biggest problem facing America today is ... the desperate lack of appropriately named post offices. At least, that's the conclusion you'd draw by looking at bills that made it through Congress to President Barack Obama's signature pen. AOL Source: Author's ...
Senate May Say No to Halting Saturday Mail Delivery
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyNot so fast, Mr. Postman. A Montana senator says lawmakers overseeing the U.S. Postal Service's budget will stand in the way of a cost-savings plan to eliminate Saturday mail deliveries. Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat, said Wednesday that doing away with Saturday deliveries would be a hardship for rural areas such as the vast rolling hills and mountains of his state. Tester said he's convinced the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that handles the post office budget will block the reduced service plan, according to the Associated Press. (Tester is a member of that panel.) Postmaster General ...
Post Office Seeks 2-Cent Rate Increase
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 6) -- The post office wants to increase the price of a stamp by 2 cents to 46 cents starting in January. The agency has been battered by massive losses and declining mail volume and faces a financial crisis. Postal officials announced a wide-ranging series of proposed price increases Tuesday, averaging about 5 percent, and covering first class, advertising mail, periodicals, packages and other services. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images If a proposed rate increase is approved, it would cost you an extra 2 cents to send a letter beginning Jan. 2. The request now goes to the ...
Stop Saturday Mail Delivery? Post Office Honchos Disagree
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe head of a U.S. Postal Service advisory panel said Thursday the post office should find other ways to trim costs before turning to significant cuts in service such as halting Saturday deliveries. Ruth Y. Goldway, chairwoman of the independent Postal Regulatory Commission, also questioned a plan to put postal kiosks and mini-offices in markets and office supply stores. "Ask the small towns of America if they think government business should be conducted in Wal-Marts," she told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. But Postmaster General John Potter, architect of a ...
Postal Service's Proposal for 5-Day Delivery in the Mail
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(March 30) -- Saturday "snail mail" is one step closer to going the way of the carrier pigeon. The U.S. Postal Service submitted its "five-day delivery" proposal to regulators today, moving to scrap Saturday mail delivery in an effort to shave $3.1 billion annually from the $238 billion in losses the agency estimates by 2020. Notably, the proposal was sent to the Postal Regulatory Commission via e-mail. Matt Rourke, AP The U.S. Postal Service submitted a plan to regulators Tuesday that, if approved, would stop Saturday mail delivery. Here, a Philadelphia postal worker delivers mail. The ...
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