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• USPS Cuts Saturday Mail, Public Supports Move Play Video

  February 7, 2013 12:58 PM

  The U.S. Postal Service is drowning in red ink. To try and save $2 billion a year, they will end a 150 year old service: Saturday mail delivery. The USPS has threatened the cut for a while, in an effort to offset those dwindling revenues. And while the cut... more »

• Future of postal processing centers still up in the air Play Video

  May 15, 2012 7:23 PM

  The U.S. Postal Service continues to look for ways to close the budget gap, and operate more efficiently moving forward. Post offices and processing centers have been on the chopping block. Last week the Postal Service announced it would keep 3,700 rural offices open that they had been previously... more »

• Plan to close post offices put on hold... for now

  April 22, 2012 1:54 PM

  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - A plan to shutter 53 post offices across Colorado and hundreds of others elsewhere in the nation has been put on hold - at least for now. David Rupert, spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service's Colorado operations, tells the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel the service... more »

• Update: Postal workers rally at City Hall

  September 27, 2011 6:48 PM

  Postal workers and supporters are rallying to "Save America's Postal Service" in light of massive budget problems. It's happening right now all across the country including Colorado Springs at City Hall. With hundreds of post offices considered for closure, along with the springs processing facility, these people are rallying... more »

• Post office looking to close offices to save money

  July 25, 2011 11:16 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Postal Service is launching a study of thousands of local post offices for possible closure in an effort to save money. The cash-strapped agency lost $8 billion last year. Postal officials have scheduled a briefing for Tuesday. Most of the approximately 3,600 offices that... more »

• White House warns of more mail bombs

  October 31, 2010 9:27 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser says U.S. officials "have to presume" there might be more potential mail bombs like the ones that were pulled off planes in England and the United Arab Emirates on Friday. Deputy national security adviser John Brennan says the foiled plot bears... more »

• Panel considers raising stamp price to 46 cents

  September 30, 2010 8:18 AM

  The independent commission that oversees the Postal Service is preparing to deliver its verdict on a request for a 2-cent increase - to 46 cents - in the cost of mailing a letter. The Postal Regulatory Commission plans to reveal its decision on requested rate increases at a news... more »

• Care packages to troops being confiscated

  August 10, 2010 8:51 AM

  If you send care packages to a loved on who's deployed in Afghanistan, leave out the tobacco. A new law meant to stop smuggling by mail has inadvertently also halted care packages that include cigarettes and other tobacco products for American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Prevent... more »

• Rate increase expected from Postal Service

  July 6, 2010 9:43 AM

  The price of a stamp could be going up. The post office plans to announce a new rate increase today in an effort to reduce massive losses. The plan will still have to be reviewed by the independent Postal Rate Commission. The post office also has proposed ending Saturday... more »

• OSHA proposes $217K in Colorado fines for Postal Service

  May 11, 2010 11:07 AM

  Federal workplace safety regulators have proposed fining the U.S. Postal Service $217,000 for allegedly exposing workers at the Denver Network Distribution Center in Denver to electrical hazards. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Monday it issued three willful citations after it found workers tested live electrical equipment without... more »

• How should the post office deliver more cheaply

  April 26, 2010 11:58 AM

  The post office is facing billions of dollars in losses and is considering a variety of ways to cut costs. Both the commission that oversees the U.S. Postal Service and the post office's inpector general are seeking comment and suggestions from the public. The post office has reduced its workforce... more »

• U.S. Postal Service pushes for radical reshaping

  March 2, 2010 8:44 AM

  We're expecting to learn the future of the US postal service later today. What they're doing now is almost certain to change, and you can blame it on the Internet. Julie Eddinger of Washington D.C. said, "In the electronic age maybe people aren't using as much mail service as... more »

• Magazine arrives 20 years late

  January 7, 2010 10:16 AM

  Erik Gooding is catching up on current events...more than 20 years after they were current. Gooding recently received an October 10, 1988 issue of Time Magazine. The post office delivered the magazine 22 years late. It wasn't intended for Gooding. The subscription was in the name... more »