Postal

It looks like there is one price hike that consumers may yet get to avoid next year. The U.S. Postal Service's plans to raise prices on stamps to 46 cents from 44 cents in January -- a 4.5% increase -- could be in doubt. In an unprecedented move today, a coalition of 700 mailers acting as the...

England's trusty mail carriers have plunged the country into uncertainty by staging a two-day strike last week, with three more mail-less days scheduled to begin on Thursday. In a country where locals used to set their watches by the clatter of the mail slipping through their letterboxes, often...

As if Detroit didn't have enough bad news. Someone saw 37-year-old James Stempnik Jr. putting a bin of unopened mail in the trunk of his car. Investigators found more than 20,000 pieces of mail stashed in Stempnik's garage, car and home. After reading this piece of news, all I wondered is if this...

How much is your local post office worth to you? Would you miss it if it disappeared? Do you depend on your local post office for services other than regular mail delivery and the purchase of postal supplies? These and other mail service-related questions will soon be a significant concern for many...

I recently pulled up at the corner by my house to mail some last minute bills. Jumping out of the car with the door open, I looked in disbelief when I couldn't find the familiar blue box. Glancing around, all I could find was some old rust marks on the sidewalk where the box stood for the last 30...