USPS OIG Blog: Do you currently use a grocery store delivery service (like Peapod, Instacart or Fresh Direct)?

Pretty soon, Americans will have no reason to leave their homes. We can order everything online and have it delivered to our doors – even groceries. That’s good news for package delivery companies, if not for Americans’ Vitamin D intake. Attention has centered lately on grocery delivery, with the U.S. Postal Service unveiling its plans…

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(VIDEO) First Village Post Office in So. Miss. opens in Stone County

STONE COUNTY, MS (WDAM) – The first Village Post Office in South Mississippi has officially opened at a decades-old, rural grocery store in southeast Stone County. U.S. Postal Service officials, county officials, economic developers and store employees gathered for a ribbon-cutting Friday morning at the Big Level Grocery Village Post Office in Perkinston. The facility…

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Mailboxes are Slowly Disappearing

Because of declining use, the U.S. Postal Service is removing many of the blue boxes. A known fact that in 1985, nearly 400,000 blue mailboxes were on American streets. Now only 160,000 remain and more are vanishing each day. What is the main reason for this? The Internet seems to be the main culprit. With…

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