Audio: USPS Wants New Delivery Trucks

(KGO) – The United States Postal Service is looking to secure legislative funding for new mail trucks. Gus Ruiz with the San Jose Postal Service branch says that the trucks the service uses now are outdated. He said, “on any given day we have 214,000 vehicles on the road at one time delivering mail. Those…

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Where have all the blue boxes gone?

Finding a good old-fashioned mailbox where you can drop off a letter is becoming almost as difficult as finding a pay phone. The iconic blue boxes are getting to be few and far between. Fifteen years ago, there were almost 400,000 collection boxes in the country. Now there are fewer than 160,000 of them, and…

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Video: USPS Personnel Files Litter Street Near Whitehall Postal Processing Plant Fire

Whitehall, Ohio (Rob Wells) – A Whitehall woman says she was cleaning up debris that blew into her yard New Year’s Day from a burned out postal facility when she did a double take at what she found. Jackie Gray said debris and rubble from the Whitehall Postal processing plant has been blowing through her neighborhood…

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