12.01.14 – Dancing penguins, flashing holiday lights and a reminder to order shipping boxes and stamps. Those are the highlights of a new holiday smartphone application that the U.S. Postal Service launched Monday with the goal of attracting more business from direct-mail marketers. The idea: You can do this with your own messages. USPS customers can use the app […]
Consumer Reports – 12.02.14 – The U.S. Postal Service expects to deliver up to 470 million packages between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. That’s around 50 million more than the same time last year. As more people shop online, FedEx and UPS also forecast a record number of deliveries. In a recent survey, Consumer Reports […]
11.26.14 – NBC Bay Area – A San Francisco start-up wants to make sure you never miss a package again, or have one stolen off your doorstep. Doorman delivers boxes and envelopes to your door, when you are home. “Shopping behavior online is changing dramatically,” said Co-Founder of Doorman Kapil Israni. “People are getting their […]
11.25.14 – NBC Bay Area – After an NBC Bay Area investigation uncovered a policy that prevents most postal service employees from dialing 911 in an emergency, the union representing those employees has gotten involved. The American Postal Workers union sent a letter to top postal service officials in Washington, DC, asking them to explain […]
11.25.14 – NBC Washington – It’s a story the U.S. Postal Service did not want us to tell you: Sexual assaults committed not just by customers and strangers, but by postal employees against other postal employees. Read more
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – 11/25/14 – For the first time in nearly a week, all of the postal carrier routes around Buffalo are back to delivering the mail. Some mail–in West Seneca for instance–went undelivered for 5 days last week because post office vehicles were affected by travel bans, just like everyone else. “There were […]
11/25/14 – On the anniversary of the murder of a local postal carrier, the News4 I-Team shows a never before released list of crimes committed against postal employees, including a dramatic increase in robberies. It started out like any other February day for a well-known D.C. postal carrier who delivered the mail on Webster Street […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Last week’s early blast of winter weather hampered mail delivery in hard hit areas and other parts of Western New York, but the postal service is working to get things back to normal. Staff worked this weekend to catch up on sorting, and there was even limited delivery Sunday in other areas […]