[maxgallery id=”46745″]By Tad Sooter (Kitsap Sun) – June 6, 2016 BREMERTON — It’s said neither “snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” will stop the mail, but the sight of legalized marijuana stores has apparently stalled one Bremerton letter carrier. Operators of two recreational marijuana stores on Callow Avenue — Pacific Cannabis Co….
Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast states 10 years ago this week, prompting an historic effort from the Postal Service to keep the mail moving. About 17 postal facilities were destroyed and more than 500 buildings were damaged during the 2005 hurricane season, which was the worst on record. More than 4,000 postal…
By Newsroom staff – March 26, 2015 Duluth, MN — Expect delays in your mail delivery, starting as soon as next week, as the United States Postal Service begins consolidating the Duluth mail processing facility. According to Representative Rick Nolan, mail sent in northeastern Minnesota could take three or four days for mail to arrive…
By Tom Griffith – February 23, 2015 NEWELL | A well-researched complaint by a curious Newell resident could save her and some of her neighbors from paying a fee for getting mail. As a result of Anna Hermanson’s diligence, the U.S. Postal Service has backtracked on a policy that required some Newell residents without mailboxes…
February 14, 2015 BOSTON — Tejal Patel has been delivering mail for the United States Postal Service in Boston for 13 years, but she can’t recall a time when the snow made her job as frustrating as it has been on Saturday ahead of yet another blizzard. The month is only half over, but Boston…
By Amy Edelen – January 22, 2015 The Hashknife Pony Express, the longest sanctioned U.S. Postal Service Pony Express route in the world, will be making its annual trip to Scottsdale on Jan. 30 to deliver mail and celebrate the Old West with a free event. The Hashknife riders will embark on a rigorous three-day,…
(September 5, 2014) Since the Postal Service announced their plan to move forward with Phase II of Network Consolidation, I’ve been asked by a number of people how it will impact the delivery of mail (Market Dominant Products). The answer, according to the USPS: First Class Mail will lose overnight delivery (with a few exceptions)…
In the neighborhoods of tomorrow, door-to-door mail delivery will be a thing of the past. If U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) gets his way, door-to-door delivery will be gone within a decade for 15 million addresses. Issa estimates $2 billion in savings from the bill approved on Wednesday by the House Committee on Oversight and…
