Post office opens late with no clerks while customers wait in line

A Manhattan post office doesn’t specialize in snail mail — it specializes in no mail. Morningside Heights residents hoping to mail out letters and packages before work Tuesday morning waited for more than an hour — a regular occurrence — before they even saw someone with a United States Postal Service uniform walk through the…

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ABC7 Chicago I-Team: Snail Mail Getting Slower?

CHICAGO (WLS) — The I-Team is tracking slow and unreliable mail service and putting the U.S. Postal Service to the test. There’s now new evidence that the problem is growing. ABC7 Consumer Investigative Reporter Jason Knowles got an inside look at the local postal nerve center and what’s being done to speed things up. In…

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Postal Service, union in confrontation over mail service at Staples stores

The announcement last year drew little notice: The long-troubled United States Postal Service was teaming up with equally distressed retailer Staples Inc. to offer mail services in 82 of its office supply stores. Initially pitched as a modest public-private partnership, the deal has blown up into a major confrontation between the Postal Service and its…

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Oversight Committee to Mark up Postal Bill on Secure Delivery

WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., announced the mark up of H.R. 4670, the Secure Delivery for America (SDA) Act, which allows the postal service to provide millions more Americans with secure clusterbox and curbside delivery. The Committee will consider the bill, cosponsored by Subcommittee on Postal Service Chairman…

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