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Coachella 2013: 'Imaginary band' the Postal Service gets real
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticDuring a between-song break during their first-ever live performance at Coachella on Saturday night, singer Ben Gibbard introduced the unit he co-founded with Jimmy Tamborello as "an imaginary band called the Postal Service." He was acknowledging the...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Ben Gibbard
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Letters: Postal Service still matters
Re "Saturday mail — and red ink," Editorial, April 11 The Times minimizes the need for Saturday delivery and glosses over one of the biggest culprits for the U.S. Postal Service's financial troubles: the responsibility for retiree benefits. The...Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Government Postal Delivery
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Quick Editorial: U.S. Post Office should let Saturday delivery die
Why couldn’t Saturday mail delivery just die a dignified death? Nobody really cared about Saturday delivery, since all it was doing was adding more junk mail. The only people who wanted Saturday delivery were about six folks in Wyoming, and...
Tags: U.S. Postal Service
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Grants available for neighborhood watch programs
Wellington is offering active neighborhood watch groups a new way to pay for meetings, food and supplies with the Neighbors of Wellington Grant. Groups may apply for up to $250. The grant, which is just one part of a larger effort to improve the...Tags: Government, Financial and Business Services, U.S. Postal Service, Safety of Citizens, Government Postal Delivery
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Boxing in the Postal Service
When the U.S. Postal Service announced in February that it would end Saturday mail delivery this summer, most Americans reacted with a mixture of wistfulness and resignation. Yes, it was sad that the mail carrier wouldn't be dropping off letters on...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Government, Executive Branch, Financial and Business Services, U.S. Postal Service
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Postal Service delays plans to cut Saturday mail
The U.S. Postal Service says it will delay plans to cut Saturday mail delivery because Congress isn't allowing the change. The Postal Service said in February that it planned to cut back in August to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Postal Service
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Postal Service backs down on cutting Saturday mail
(AP) - The U.S. Postal Service says it will delay plans to cut Saturday mail delivery because Congress isn't allowing the change. The Postal Service said in February that it planned to cut back in August to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Postal Service
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Postal service cancels plans to stop Saturday mail service
The U.S. Postal Service will cancel plans to end Saturday mail delivery this summer, it announced today. Officials said the new stopgap budget that Congress recently passed would prohibit the move. Read more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...Tags: Financial and Business Services, U.S. Postal Service
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Post office retreats on eliminating Saturday mail
WASHINGTON (AP) — The beleaguered U.S. Postal Service backed down from its cost-saving plan to eliminate Saturday mail delivery, acknowledging that Congress barred a move that supporters said was essential to addressing the agency's dire financial...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Executive Branch, Government, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Thomas R. Carper
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U.S. Postal Service relents, cancels plan to trim Saturday service
WASHINGTON--The US Postal Service has canceled a plan to end Saturday letter delivery this summer, conceding Wednesday that Congress had won a recent legal bout over the agency's attempt to cut costs. The USPS had announced in February that letter...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Executive Branch, Government, U.S. Postal Service, Government Postal Delivery
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Detail emerge on proposed Obama budget plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as it adds fuel to battles over taxes and Social Security, President Barack Obama's budget will reprise lots of smaller bore proposals that have gone nowhere in a gridlocked Washington. Ideas like higher Transportation...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Public Finance, Justice System, Government Health Care, Barack Obama
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A mailbox for all seasons: Officials offer installation tips
PETOSKEY -- With wintry weather comes conditions that can be tough on roadside mailboxes. For postal customers who find themselves needing to repair or replace those boxes after the snowy season, postal authorities and county road officials offer some...
Tags: Building Material, U.S. Postal Service, Government Postal Delivery
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