united states postal service

If you ask the postmaster general, saving the Post Office will require shutting down one out of three post offices, laying off tens of thousands of postal workers, and ending Saturday mail delivery. Trouble is, he's wrong.

The USPS is still running in the red, and facing an $18.2 billion annual deficit as early as 2015, The Postal Service's solution in a nutshell: Give customers worse service, and charge them more for it. Where have we heard this before? (Hint: the airline industry.)

When Postal Service cuts take effect this spring, it will not only slow mail delivery, but eliminate the possibility of first-class letters being delivered in a day. Here's what you need to know about the changes, and some tips to keep you from going postal.

When it comes to bold weather-related boasts, it's hard to beat the Post Office's unofficial motto: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Yet even the USPS pales beside the standard set by the New York Stock Exchange.

Do unwanted credit card solicitations clog your mailbox? Are you still steamed about the taxpayer bailout of big banks while ordinary Americans were losing their jobs and homes? Here's how to put those together to fuel a grassroots bailout of the Post Office.

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...