Postal Service
Labor Department corrects numbers on female job losses
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The actual percentage of job losses by women the past three years is lower than the 90 percent Mitt Romney stated last month.
Post Office decides to keep small posts running
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe discusses why the Post Office decided to change a plan to shut down hundreds of rural post offices, the new plan he's proposing, and how much money it will save.
Letter carriers protest postal service reform bill
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The National Association of Letter Carriers is planning nationwide demonstrations Thursday outside U.S. Senate offices. They are protesting "flawed" legislation they say would hurt the postal service even more than it's already been damaged by cost-cutting.
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Postal Service layoffs will hit minorities
Friday, February 24, 2012
Working at the post office has long been a way for African-Americans and others to rise up to the middle class. But at least 35,000 USPS jobs will soon be lost.
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Save our savings
Friday, February 24, 2012
Marketplace economics editor Chris Farrell says it's all very well telling us to save, but where are we supposed to put our money?
Stamp prices to cost a cent more
Friday, January 20, 2012
The conventional wisdom is that stamp prices go up faster than the rise in inflation, but over the long haul, that may not be the case.
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First class mail will take longer
Monday, December 5, 2011
The U.S. Postal Service announced that it would shutter more than half of its processing centers next year increasing the number of days to deliver some mail
U.S. Post Office to cut $3 billion
Monday, December 5, 2011
The Post Office will slow first-class delivery next spring to save money and help avoid bankruptcy. That will affect people and businesses who still rely on mail.
On mailing champagne flutes
Monday, November 29, 2010
This final note today: A helpful tip as you get those holiday packages ready to ship off to relatives. Whatever you do, don't mark it "fragile."...
The fiscal year is over ... shouldn't we have a federal budget?
Thursday, September 30, 2010
The Mid-Day Update is a five-day-a-week podcast from the Marketplace Morning Report co-hosted by Bill Radke and Steve Chiotakis that wraps up the...
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