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The U.S. Postal Service needs to cut one day of mail delivery each week and raise rates to return to solvency, President Barack Obama said in his budget proposal.

Turns out closing the Beach Post Office , in a way, opened up two more. Already most Postal Service packing and sending options were available at an Island Estates facility .

13, 2012 American Business Media reports: The Postal Service reported a loss of $3.3 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 2012 which includes the months of October, November and December.

One of the most basic expectations we have for the U.S. Postal Service is that it will deliver our mail on time.

Planning a trip out of the country soon? Do you have your passport? The U. S. Postal Service will be helping by hosting Passport Fairs during the week of Feb.

In today's Federal Register, the U.S. Postal Service has published a notice of availability of environmental assessment documents on the whole matter of Postal Service reorganization and cutbacks --- the elimination of over 200 regional mail sorting facilities and other changes.

This Feb. 16, 2011, file photo shows Ron Barber, one of the people wounded in the attack on Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, backed by County Attorney Barbara LaWall and Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup, in Tucson, Ariz.

The U.S. Postal Service notified the airport that the facility will cease operations March 26.

Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the U.S. Postal Service's quarterly loss ballooned to $3.3 billion amid declining mail volume and the soaring costs of health benefits for future retirees.

The Christmas Day fire that destroyed the Verdi Post Office has interrupted normal mail delivery options.

The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that its quarterly loss widened to $3.3 billion amid declining mail volume and mounting costs for future retiree health benefits as it struggles to stave off bankruptcy.

Effective January 22, 2012, the Postal Service adjusted mailing services and shipping prices.

City leaders are sending a message to the U.S. Postal Service after learning that the downtown post office could be shut down.

Look back on "Lunch with Tom" chat, your weekly chance to talk sports with World-Herald columnist Tom Shatel.

"Puzzles" is a mellow piece of dub and psych-pop from Ross Fish's upcoming album Parables , which will be available for streaming next week on his Bandcamp and Facebook.

David Gerber retrieves the mail at his Buffalo home Thursday. The volume of stamped letters went down last year for the sixth straight year.

Thomas Sowell is a columnist and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Republican leaders in Congress are talking about dismembering the U.S. Postal Service by cutting the number of delivery days, shuttering processing centers so that it will take longer for letters to arrive, closing thousands of rural and inner-city post offices and taking additional steps that would dramatically downsize one of the few national ... (more)

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is backing creation of a blue-ribbon panel to examine how the U.S. Postal Service can make money by offering new services and products to help reduce its huge operating losses.

The U.S. Postal Service announced Friday that it is considering shutting down the historic post office in downtown Huntington Beach.