Displaying items 73-84 of 678
» View wsbt.com items only
< Previous
•
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-57
•
Next >
-
Postal Service loses money despite customer growth
WASHINGTON (AP) — What business gets more customers every year, yet keeps losing money? The U.S. Postal Service delivers mail to 11 million more homes, offices and other addresses than it did a decade ago, even as the amount of mail that people in...
Tags: Washington, DC, Science and Technology, U.S. Congress, Lobbying, U.S. Postal Service
-
Five questions with ... John Kennedy
Helping companies save money on postage can bring in the big bucks. Baltimore-based Three Dog Logistics picks up mail from clients with high volumes, "commingles" it with other client mail going to the same ZIP code and delivers it closer to the end...
Tags: Marketing, State University of New York, Government Postal Delivery, Media Industry, Long Island
-
Luggage service vs. package delivery: Packing for the long haul
Question: My husband and I will be traveling abroad for several weeks. We plan to pack lightly so that we do not have to check luggage. However, we will need more toiletries than we can carry on our planes so we are thinking about shipping them ahead. Can...
Tags: Antigua and Barbuda, Mexico, Trips and Vacations, U.S. Postal Service, FedEx Corporation
-
The Post Office's salvation can fit on a stamp
In Robert Heinlein's classic novella, "The Man Who Sold the Moon," an entrepreneur raises money for a lunar expedition by warning a soft-drink company that, without its support, he might have to turn to a competitor that will pay him to display its logo...Tags: Government Postal Delivery, Microsoft Corporation, Starbucks Corp., Book, Authors
-
Five absentee ballots sent to recycling bins in Compton
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Several absentee ballots in Compton that should have been returned to City Hall after they were found to be undeliverable instead ended up in bins slated for recycling outside a post office. Officials said allegations of voter fraud appeared to be...Tags: Justin Bieber, Public Officials, Politics, Elections, Government
-
Anchorage Postal Workers Rally to Protect Saturday Mail Delivery
Channel 2 NewsMore than a hundred postal workers and supporters braved the cold and snow and held a rally against plans to cut Saturday delivery service at busy intersection in Anchorage. On Sunday afternoon, concerned citizens and postal workers wore t-shirts,...Tags: Government Postal Delivery, U.S. Congress, U.S. Postal Service, Financial and Business Services
-
Jerome Oxman dies at 97; his mail-order business became military surplus store and museum
Jerome Oxman, who started a mail-order business in the early 1960s that grew into a sprawling Santa Fe Springs outlet that became both a military surplus store and a military museum, has died. He was 97. Oxman died of prostate cancer Feb. 22 at his...
Tags: U.S. Army, Military Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Museums, Prostate Cancer
-
Email tax may slice spam and scams out of inboxes
SACRAMENTO — The most courageous politician in California — probably the nation — is a Berkeley city councilman, Gordon Wozniak. His gutsy act: proposing that the government tax email. Yes, sacrosanct, time-gobbling, out-of-control...
Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Amway, U.S. Congress, Google Inc., Email
-
Another victory for the big babies
Change of SubjectNews: Congress foiled the financially beleaguered U.S. Postal Service's plan to end Saturday delivery of first-class mail on Thursday when it passed legislation requiring six-day delivery. The Postal Service, which lost $16 billion last year, had said... -
Local postal workers rally to keep Saturday delivery
julieg@herald-mail.comMore than 100 people attended a rally Sunday afternoon in downtown Hagerstown that a local branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers held to advocate maintaining six-day delivery of mail. In February, the postal service announced plans to cut...Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Postal Service, Patrick R. Donahoe
-
Village post office opens on Sharpsburg Pike
dona@herald-mail.comAt a time when the U.S. Postal Service is recommending cutting Saturday service, it is actually adding outlets for customers in the form of village post offices such as the one at May’s Service Center at 8708 Sharpsburg Pike, where a grand opening...Tags: Government Postal Delivery, U.S. Congress, U.S. Postal Service, Politics, Interior Policy
-
Larry Wellborn: Scaling back on postal services
The Postal Service has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. The Postal Service has lost billions of dollars while losing market share to electronic forms of communication. But this is not entirely the fault of the Post Office or the...Tags: Marketing, Prices, U.S. Congress, Politics, Economic Indicator
Apr 8, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Apr 7, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 24, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 1, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 28, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 24, 2013
|Story| KTUU
Mar 3, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 24, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Mar 21, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
Mar 24, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Mar 22, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Mar 23, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Original site for Mail Order Industry topic gallery.