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Special Delivery! Oregon Mailman Caught Defecating in Citizen's Yard
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsPeople get a lot of crap in the mail, but usually not directly from the mailman. An Oregon postal worker has been suspended without pay after he was literally caught with his pants around his ankles, defecating in one of the yards along his delivery route. According to KGW News, Portland resident Don Derfler was home baby-sitting his son last week when he spotted the mailman going potty -- as opposed to postal -- across the street by his neighbor's house. "He started pulling his pants down and started defecating, and at that point I grabbed my camera and started to take pictures," ...
Opinion: Pushing the Envelope
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- I am quite possibly the only fossil on the planet who laments the demise of the U.S. Postal Service. Its appeal to raise the price of a stamp a mere two cents was turned down last week, causing the already ailing agency to take a turn for the worse. Over the next decade, the USPS is expected to lose an eye-popping $238 billion. For most of my 30-something friends, this news is greeted with a yawn, if noticed at all. Who cares? We have Facebook, e-mail, Twitter. Well, it leaves me in a state of postal traumatic stress. As far as I'm concerned, when it comes to personal ...
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 ...
Congress Weighs Cutting Saturday Mail Delivery
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(June 23) -- The U.S. Postal Service can deliver through snow and sleet, and by mule to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, but Congress searched today for a way for the agency to deliver on a real challenge -- a balanced budget. A joint House and Senate hearing heard a split decision from the largest postal customers about whether to cut Saturday service. The Postal Service, which doesn't get taxpayer subsidies, is supposed to break even. But it will lose about $230 billion over the next decade if no changes are made. Mail volume has been decreasing as more people pay bills online and ...
Michael Steele Goes Postal on Obama Over Health Care Reform
By David Corn - Politics DailyWho do you trust more -- the Post Office or your health insurance company? Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele and his consultants at the GOP think they have a winning line of attack on President Obama and his campaign to overhaul the health care system. It entails dissing the U.S. Postal Service. In a fundraising e-mail sent out Thursday, Steele started with a statement Obama recently made to support including a government-run health insurance plan in the health care reform package: I think private insurers should be able to compete. . . . I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are ...
The U.S. Postal Service: Our Next Bankruptcy?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyAnd you thought public health care was getting a bad name? Move over, socialized medicine. We have another problem on our hands. The General Accounting Office (GAO) has announced that the U.S. Postal Service is in danger of financial insolvency. ...
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