MAIL DELIVERY

As the U.S. Postal Service works feverishly to close its budget gap, UPS is taking advantage of the turmoil to highlight how much more innovative its brown-clad couriers can be, compared to their blue-suited cousins.

The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service is considering cutting as many as 120,000 jobs. Facing a second year of losses totaling $8 billion or more, the agency also wants to pull its workers out of the retirement and health benefits plans covering federal workers and set up its own benefit...

The U.S. Postal Service's annual loss more than doubled in fiscal 2010 compared to a year earlier as mail volume continues to slide while interest costs related to workers' compensation climb.

What did you get in the mail today? Not much, I'll bet. In the wake of an announcement by the U.S. Postal Service that it was considering eliminating Saturday mail service, I did an informal survey of U.S. mail recipients I know. Here are my results: Single, middle-aged woman living in an...

A story posted earlier today reported the dire situation of the U.S. Postal Service. Increasing costs, particularly fuel, and declining revenue from mail advertising has resulted in a $2.8 billion shortfall last year, with more expected in 2009. As the Postmaster General noses around D.C. looking...