A Close-Up Look at goPost

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Corpus Christi plant closing could be costly for local businesses

Corpus Christi Caller Times

Postal Woes Spell Opportunity for Online Banking and Bill Pay

American Banker

Tiny town's faithful fear post office closure

The Tennessean

The postman – and the memories he carries – fading

"I’ve always been amazed that mean dogs and some of the meaner members of Congress are so hateful toward post office workers."
Tacoma News Tribune

Slated Wyoming Post Office closures squeeze rural residents

Billings Gazette

Occupy the Post Office? Tucson Postal Workers, Supporters, Fight Back

Huffington Post

Gingrich hit hard by Iowa direct mail campaign

New York Times
see also Why Mail Matters: It Drove the Decline of Newt Gingrich in Iowa -

Verizon drops plan to surcharge online bill payments

New York Times

Kansas newspapers anxiously watch USPS closures

Kansas City Star

The RAOI Advisory Opinion: A Transformative Moment or a Bump in the Road?

Save the Post Office

2011: USPS Year in Photos

USPS News Link

Editorial: USPS should save the best from closing

Youngstown Vindicator

Man accused of spitting in Portland postal clerk’s face

Bangor Daily News

Attendees at meeting line up to support Toledo plant

Toledo Blade

USPS Puts GoPost Website Up

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Verizon to charge $2 'convenience fee' for online bill payments

CNN Money

How to 'Save' Your Post Office

Going Postal:

USPS nets $152 million from operations. loses $1.8 billion to politicians

postalnews blog

Damage extensive in P O burglary

Logan (WV) Banner

"Pray for the Postal Service"

Philip Rubio commentary for Save the Post Office

Rolando: Issa misleads on Postal Service

Orange County Register

25 Predictions for the U.S. Courier, Express and Postal Market for 2012

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Collins: PRC opinion on PO closings confirms need for postal reform

Press release

Post office still vital for the masses

Atlanta Journal Constitution op-ed by Steve Hutkins

The U.S. Postal Service Ends Next-Day Delivery

The New Yorker: Roger Angell

House Passage of HR 2309 Likely in 2012

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Postal justice: Clerk pursues mail thieves

Coeur d'Alene Press

"Save the Post Office" named most valuable progressive web site

The Nation

Editorial: What Brown couldn't do for Denver

Denver Post

USPS Offers Stress-Free Ways to Return Gifts

postalnews blog

Week in Review: Tis the Season

Save the Post Office

Special delivery: The dying art of letter-writing

Bluffton SC Island Packet

Staten Island jury delivers $125K verdict to letter carrier

Staten Island Advance

Postal Service cuts 'pound foolish'

Athens (GA) Banner Herald

Small newspapers anxiously eye USPS

Hays (KS) Daily News

US regulators savage post office closure plan

Post & Parcel

Congressman Introduces Rural Postal Service Preservation Act

Press release

Act would open the next era of Postal Service

Column by Senator Sherrod Brown for the Tiffin, Ohio Advertiser-Tribune

Boscawen: Residents fight for post office

Concord NH Monitor

Merger of Oshkosh-Green Bay mail facilities continues

Postal union calls consolidation a 'disaster'
Fond du Lac Reporter

Nevada PO suffers heavy damage in Christmas morning fire

Reno Gazette-Journal

50,000 Packages In Limbo At UPS Distribution Center in Colorado

CBS Denver via postalnews blog

50,000 Packages In Limbo At UPS Distribution Center

CBS Denver

Santa Claus' letter helpers

Green Bay Press Gazette

Post offices still get St. Nick's mail

Livingston (MI) Daily

Unbinding the Nation: America and the Post Office

Save the Post Office

Going Postal

What kind of nation won’t fund a post office?
Truthout

The Postal Service Is Fighting for Its Life and Should Be Saved

The Daily Beast

Editorial: Unleash the USPS eagle

Chicago Tribune

The Postal Service propaganda machine kicks into gear

Save the Post Office

Postal service workers help out needy this season

Middletown Ohio Journal

Postal Service Cuts Worry Kitchen-Table Entrepreneurs

Businessweek

PRC Advisory Opinion Finds USPS Proposal for Retail Closures Lacks Proper Analysis

Press release

Letter carrier gets OK to wear his Santa outfit

Bellevue Reporter

"Full retreat" by House GOP

(You might say they "folded like a cheap suit"!)
Federal News Radio

Letter carrier shot with BB gun

Albany Times Union

Video: People crowd Michigan post office in last-minute shipping rush

WEYI TV via postalnews blog

Sheriff: Letter carrier burglarized decorated veteran's home

KCTV 5 Kansas City

Manhattan post office overrun by rats

Daily Mail

Sioux City letter carriers adjust after mail center closure

Sioux City Journal

Fourth USPS employee pleads guilty in kickback scheme

Detroit Free Press

To Save Post Offices, Turn Them Into Public Banks

GOOD

Letter carrier defies Santa Claus ban

postalnews blog

Postal employee accused of setting up illegal Ecstasy shipment

Naples Daily News

USPS Turns To Deliveries After Dark

CBS New York

Season of uncertainty: postal workers worry about future of USPS

Muskegon Chronicle

Central Massachusetts plant on closure list

Worcester Telegram

In a post-postal world, Christmas still delivers

Washington Post

USPS about face on in home delivery dates?

postalnews blog

Post offices will be open Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve

Hours may be shortened, and POs will be closed Monday Dec 26 and Jan 2
Press release

Postal Workers Fight For Snail Mail

WFMY TV Greensboro NC

Reward Offered Following Post Office Robbery in Kansas

WDAF TV Kansas City

Iowa Clerk Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Rebate Checks

postalnews blog

The Postal Ties That Bind

Governing

Tweets by mail?

The Next Web

Oregonians Occupy Their Post Offices in Response to Threat of Rural Closures

Rural Organizing Project

Week in Review: The plot thickens

Save the Post Office

Issa: Donahoe “folded like a cheap suit”

postalnews blog
click here for more on the story from Courier Express and Postal Observer

USPS enhances service in Spanish and Chinese

Press release

Post Office plays Santa to needy children

Boston Globe

Postal offices weather Christmas crunch

Chicago Tribune

USPS performance ranked #1

USPS News Link

Wanted: New Postmaster General; Must Be Able To Kiss 535 Backsides Simultaneously

Dead Tree Edition (Link corrected!)

America's disappearing post offices

BBC News
see also: Behind the BBC: Ladiesburg, MD -

Postal Service Busiest Mailing and Delivery Days are this Week

Press release

Non-profit agencies worried about mail delays

Kokomo Tribune

Fewer holiday cards sent by snail mail

USA Today

UPS Does Not Necessarily Win If The Postal Service Fails

Seeking Alpha

A year without a Santa Claus: USPS carrier not allowed to deliver while wearing Santa suit

Bellevue (WA) Reporter

Police Investigate Postal Service Manager Attack

CBS Detroit

Memphis: Trucks stuck for hours waiting to unload Christmas mail

postalnews blog

Rural Alaskans worry costs will skyrocket if bypass mail disappears

(Really? But I thought the private sector always does everything better and cheaper??)
Alaska Dispatch

Letter: Postal Service saddled with funding mandates

Boston Globe

Editorial: First-class frustration

Toledo Blade

Editorial: Canceled - Congress can save Postal Service from extinction

Fayetteville Observer

Video: Oregon post office robbed at gun point

postalnews blog via KMTR

NALC contract talks extended into the new year

postalnews blog

Rural/Clerk ‘Dual Appointments’ to End in January

APWU News

Dennis Ross suggests PMG may have to go?

postalnews blog

Abilene offers USPS $1.4 million incentive to keep plant open

Abilene Reporter-News

Akaka Introduces Postal Investment Act of 2011

NAPUS

Judge denies bond reduction in post office shooting

Montgomery Advertiser

Online Exhibit: The Art of Christmas Stamps

National Postal Museum

Video: Too Big to Mail

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Letter: Sorting out the Postal Service’s woes

Washington Post

Postal center shutdown plan causes outrage

Ft. Myers News-Press

Snail mail vital to entrepreneurs

Montreal Gazette

USPS: We can't pay retiree prepayment even if delayed

The Hill

USPS Changes Will Be A Mixed Bag For FedEx

Seeking Alpha

Capital Constraints Should Worry USPS Employes, Unions, and Management Associations

Courier Express and Postal Observer

FedEx Uses USPS for 30.4% of Ground Shipments

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Tech Has Saved the Postal Service for 200 Years—Today, It Won't

The Atlantic

Mail truck driver pepper sprayed, punched in face

Eureka CA Times-Standard

Postal Service 'crisis' overblown

Cape Cod Times

Businesses fret about reliance on mail amid Postal Service cutbacks

Arizona Republic

Pennsylvania Postal Worker Found Guilty Of Misappropriating $2,600

postalnews blog

Letters: The Future of America’s Post Offices

New York Times

House Republicans Attack Postal Retirement Benefits

APWU News

Iowa woman arrested after confrontation with mail carrier

Des Moines Register

USPS Mailing Changes Won’t Impact Most Mailers

multichannelmerchant.com

USPS to simplify pricing policy that offers 7,600 domestic options

Post & Parcel

Guy who thinks he invented e-mail offers advice to the USPS

postalnews blog

Mississippi postal worker guilty of mail theft

Associated Press

Outbox Wants to Revolutionize U.S. Mail

Inc.com

USPS agrees to moratorium on post office and plant closings until May 2012

Postcom via postalnews blog

Delays in Restructuring Will Increase Red Ink; Delay Possible Early Retirements

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Hinchey Introduces Legislation to Help Stop Postal Service Layoffs and Service Reductions

Press release

NALC: GOP bill would extend payroll tax holiday at the expense of federal and postal workers

NALC e-Activist Network

Postal Service’s Future Beyond 2013 Cloudy Due to Severe Capital Constraints

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Who will deliver the USPS from its "bogus financial crisis"?

Philip Rubio for the Guardian

Post Office Closure Causing Backups

Plant Officials Say Processing, Delivery Slowed By Change
WBAL Baltimore

Coming Changes in USPS Health Benefits

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Rolando: Give Postal Service time to re-invent

Politico

Postmaster General Talks Sustainability in South Africa While Promoting Junk Mail Back Home

Triple Pundit

Dallas office workers want answers to missing mail mystery

WFAA TV Dallas - Fort Worth

Letter Carrier Helps Save Woman From Burning Home

KETV Omaha

Derry store's postal kiosk a 1st in New England

Manchester Union Leader

Royal Mail computers crash on busiest day of the year

Daily Mail

Longer routes for mail carriers

WHEC TV Rochester NY

USPS hopes for another deferral on prefunding payment

Government Executive

Editorial: Better postal fix needed

Buffalo News

USPS Launches Express Mail Flat Rate Boxes for Overnight Delivery

eCommerce Bytes

The Postal Service plots its own demise

Philadelphia Inquirer

The real cause of the Postal Service's troubles

Gainesville Sun

Opinion: Building a 21st-century postal service

Senators Lieberman, Collins, Carper and Brown in Politico

Sen McCaskill calls for six month moratorium on PO closings

postalnews blog

Week in Review: What a mess

Save the Post Office

APWU local president apologizes to public for "lack of service" at post offices

Biloxi Sun Herald

Good reason to save the post office

South Bend Tribune

Gerald Ensley: If USPS perishes, many jobs will, too

Tallahassee Democrat

Delayed Retirements, Rising Overtime Bedevil USPS Finances

Dead Tree Edition

Thousands in Socorro fight to save post office

El Paso Times

Cutting 28,000 jobs in the U.S. Postal Service in today's economy is ludicrous

Munster (IN) Times

Postal Service plant closures will be 'a mess'

Associated Press

The Case for Consolidation: Overview of the Postal Service's Request for an Advisory Opinion

Save the Post Office

Proposed postal service changes worry businesses

Boston Globe

Oregon: Protests voiced over cuts proposed for post offices

Congressman Peter DeFazio joins post office employees and business owners to decry cutbacks
Eugene Register Guard

Editorial: Congress is overdue to address USPS problems

Biddeford Maine Journal Tribune

Tense Forum on Fate of Dallas's Main Post Office

Dallas Observer

Parade of USPS Service Cuts Ignite Congressional Outrage

also: End-of-Year Appropriations Bill Could Alter FEHBP
eNAPUS Legislative & Political Bulletin

PMG and Postmaster Organization Presidents Agree to Re-open Pay Talks

NAPUS via postalnews blog

Editorial: A prescription for disaster

Chattanooga Times-Free Press

Small towns fear losing holiday postmarks

Associaated Press

Large group of Senate Democrats seeks to stop postal service cutbacks

The Hill

Cash-strapped Postal Service paying millions for unused Massachusetts building

Fox Boston

SAVED: A complete list of POs removed From RAOI

Going Postal

Will the Postal Service Save Email from the Grave?

Fast Company

Postal workers rally against proposed cuts

WLS Chicago

Hostile workplace? 70 grievances filed against Redondo Beach CA Post Office

Easy Reader News

The Public Be Damned: Using the Amtrak Script to Kill the Post Office

Huffington Post

Workers comp reform has lawmakers crisscrossing partisan lines

Washington Post

Former Alabama carrier who buried mail sentenced

Tuscaloosa News

Editorial: A business undone by Congress

Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot

Mail-dependent firms dread USPS cuts

USA Today

From 1995: Marvin Runyon on what the USPS would look like in 2010

postalnews blog

Pitney Bowes expresses patience with USPS financial dilemma

Connecticut Post

Michigan Postal Worker Injured After Pellet Gun Shooting

WWUP TV Michigan

Editorial: Postal Service bites nose to spite face

Burlington County NJ Times

Editorial: Poison pill for post offices

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial: Rooting for the U.S. Postal service to find a sustainable business plan

Trenton Times

USPS in 'death spiral,' carrier union chief says

Politico

Letter Carrier contract talks extended again

postalnews blog

DMA Says It’s Imperative for USPS to Meet Delivery Standards

multichannelmerchant.com

USPS Slowdown Unlikely to Cramp Netflix's Style

eCommerce Times

Editorial: Looks like Postal Service won't be heeding comments

Great Falls Tribune

How the Business Model and Congress Failed the Postal Service

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Video: Potential USPS changes could affect newspaper circulation

postalnews blog

Video: Bulk-mailers fear proposed mail delays could hurt business

postalnews blog

How to Help the Post Office: Five Viewpoints

New York Times

Editorial: Stop the Postal Service’s ‘panic selling’

Grand Forks Herald

Editorial: USPS plan is a "terrible way to cut costs"

"The USPS could hardly have come up with a worse solution to its financial problems"
Los Angeles Times

Postal cuts to raise costs for schools, nonprofits

Dayton Daily News

Editorial: Postal Service taking a step backward

Muncie Star Press

Manufactured Crisis About to Cripple the Post Office

AllGov

Mail handlers: USPS Moves Forward its Ill-Advised Plan to Reduce Service Standards

National Postal Mail Handlers Union

USPS changes: How they’ll affect the 2012 campaign

Slate

Editorial: Postal Service cuts need closer examination

Fayetteville Observer

Postal Pain Continues With First-Class Mail Changes

multichannelmerchant.com

New Yorkers stamping feet over Postal Service's drastic cutback plans

NY Daily News
see also: Thursday’s Closing Hearing for Bronx Stadium PO to be Flashpoint for Protest -

Netflix Prepared for Post Office Slowdown

Forbes

Postal Service Cutbacks Add New Light to Netflix Saga

New York Times

Susan Collins Blasts USPS Money-Saving Plan

Maine Public Broadcasting Network

Is your plant closing? Who knows?

postalnews blog

The good, the bad, and the ugly: The Postal Service finds its own hired gun

Save the Post Office

Farewell, first-class mail

Federal Times

Editorial: Junk mail- A plan to gut the Postal Service is wrong direction for U.S.

Longview News-Journal

Wrong time to cut postal jobs, Sanders says

Burlington Free Press

Video: DeFazio on Postmaster General decision to close post offices, cut service

postalnews blog

NALC: Reduced delivery standards will harm USPS

postalnews blog

USPS Plan Will Hasten Demise of a Still-Vital Institution

postalnews blog

Congressman calls for firing postmaster general; blames Obama, GOP Congress

The Hill

Precedent Provides Hints about how PRC Will Rule on USPS Service Changes

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Mailers “perplexed” by PMG’s about face on exigency request

postalnews blog

USPS to file plans for service downgrades, network reductions

Press release

Postal union honors man who tried to keep office open

Woonsocket RI Call

Importance of PRC Appointments

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Top 10 things every fed should know before retiring

Federal News Radio

Magazines Gird for USPS Nixing Saturday Delivery

Advertising Age

Arbitration between the USPS and the NRLCA begins Monday

Rural Carrier Updates

Week in Review: More news, more of the same

Save the Post Office

What were you thinking, Mr. President?

Obama nominates Hammond to the PRC
Save the Post Office

Facing bankruptcy, Postal Service pushes forward with big cuts to first-class mail next spring

Washington Post

Postal Robberies May Be Connected

WTTG TV Washington

Attack on postal worker lands man behind bars

Chicago Tribune

The Junking of the Postal Service

New York Times

Reports conflict over USPS freight truck advertising

Direct Marketing News

Postal worker charged in Montgomery post office shooting

Montgomery Advertiser

Alaska Delegation Refutes USPS Inspector General Bypass Mail Report

Press release

Postal workers aren't 'excess' to be jettisoned to cut costs

Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot

Opinion: Congress can fix its postal woes

Asheville Citizen-Times

USPS: Goodbye next-day delivery

(Not to nitpick, but CNN refers to the next day delivery standard for first class mail as a "guarantee"- it isn't, and never has been...)
CNN

Amazon’s Parcel Locker Test Expanding

Courier Express and Postal Observer

DC postal worker robbed, locked in truck

Washington Post

Bristol VA mail delivery issues arise after plant consolidation

Bristol Herald Courier

Illinois congressman demands to see data on Rockford plant closing proposal

Press release

USPS officials take a beating at Tulsa consolidation hearing

Tulsa World

Postal worker pleads guilty to stealing prescription drugs from mail

Zanesville Times-Recorder

Bypass mail critics may hit Alaska hard

"... the onerous requirement to fund retiree health benefits for 75 years into the future is a burden counted in the billions, shared by no other outfit private or public and far costlier to the postal service than Alaska's bypass mail"
Anchorage Daily News

Occupy Reno Occupies Post Office Meeting on Proposed Plant Closure

KRNV TV via postalnews blog

Shots fired at Alabama post office, no injuries

Associated Press

USPS promises to fix “unacceptable” flats processing delays

Post & Parcel

APWU-Supported Workers’Compensation Bill Passes House

APWU News

What a difference a day makes: The Postal Service slows down the mail

Save the Post Office

USPS will no longer honor in-home delivery dates

postalnews blog

USPS to restrict attendance at MTAC meetings

postalnews blog

Post offices play Santa, with elves' help

USA Today

Postal Service Will Intoduce Parcel Lockers December 6

Courier Express and Postal Observer
also: Postal service trademarks “gopost” name and domain -

Two Alabama Postal Workers Indicted for Stealing, Delaying and Destroying Mail

postalnews blog

Former Virginia Postmaster Free On Bond

WCYB Bristol

USPS celebrates Louisiana bicentennial on 2012 Forever Stamp

postalnews blog

Kentucky postal workers plead guilty to taking drugs intended for veterans

Press release