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    Jun 8, 2018, 05:15 AM

    Market landscape appears to be changing for personalized postage providers

    Personalized postage is no longer available from the online retail platform Zazzle.com; it’s uncertain if this is a temporary or permanent change.

  • american-airlines-cuba
    Jun 4, 2018, 09:00 AM

    U.S. and Cuba resume regular mail service after test period ended

    Direct mail service to Cuba had been blocked for more than 50 years, part of a United States embargo on the communist nation.

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    Jun 4, 2018, 04:45 AM

    President Trump’s meetings with postmaster general stir further debate

    The latest news from President Donald Trump’s war on Amazon’s discounted mail contract with USPS is bad news for Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan.

  • burrus-postal-workers-union
    May 29, 2018, 10:45 AM

    William Burrus, former postal workers union head, has died

    William Burrus, who rose from a postal clerk to become president of one of the largest federal worker unions, died May 19. He was 81.

  • relay-for-life
    May 25, 2018, 07:10 AM

    Recent U.S. postmarks incorporate themes of summer, fundraising

    The American Cancer Society has sponsored a special postmark for its June 2 Relay for Life in Rock Falls, Ill.

  • iowa-baseball-championship-postmark
    May 20, 2018, 06:00 AM

    Date meets ZIP of Iowa town with remarkable high school baseball history

    The cancel honors the town’s impressive high school baseball team, which played its last inning of baseball in 1991 when the school closed its doors.

  • paul-carlin
    May 18, 2018, 04:00 AM

    Former Postmaster General Paul N. Carlin, 1931-2018

    Paul Nestor Carlin, a career postal service worker who became the 66th postmaster general of the United States died April 25.

  • nitro-postmark
    May 17, 2018, 06:00 AM

    Everyone is welcome at memorial event featured on Nitro, W.Va. postmark

    This year’s event takes place May 16-25. The organization’s website encourages men and women from ages 8 to 80 participate.

  • philadelphia-lawyer-s-david-fineman
    May 10, 2018, 06:00 AM

    Former USPS board chairman provides suggestions to save the Postal Service

    The comments are the latest indication of how troubled some of the Postal Service’s traditional allies are with the agency's continued downward trend.

  • us-blue-airmail-commemorative
    May 10, 2018, 04:45 AM

    Postal Service lays claim to U.S. airline foundations at stamp first day

    The USPS used a stamp ceremony to remind the nation that its first mail pilots laid the foundations for commercial aviation in America.

  • armstrong-priority-mail-envelope-wmr
    May 4, 2018, 05:00 AM

    USPS settles lawsuit with cyclist Lance Armstrong: Week’s Most Read

    Also this week, Royal Mail depicts several owl species on 10 new stamps.

  • May 2, 2018, 07:16 AM

    Three pictorial postmarks issued for Alamo City’s tricentennial fiesta

    Postmarks for San Antonio’s anniversary show Texas wearing a sombrero, a fiesta theme and the city’s skyline.

  • armstrong-priority-mail-envelope
    Apr 27, 2018, 06:45 AM

    Cyclist Lance Armstrong settles U.S. Postal Service sponsorship lawsuit

    USPS stands to receive “a substantial portion” of the $5 million former cyclist Lance Armstrong is paying the government to end a lawsuit.

  • 50th-anniversary-first-aba-championship
    Apr 21, 2018, 05:30 AM

    Pittsburgh Pipers 1967-68 basketball team remembered on postmark

    The first championship of the American Basketball Association (ABA) is being celebrated 50 years later on a pictorial postmark.

  • us-postal-service-trump-review
    Apr 13, 2018, 11:00 AM

    President Trump directs commission to study U.S. Postal Service

    President Donald Trump has directed a presidential task force to study the United States Postal Service and how it prices packages.

  • carmel-post-office-wmr
    Apr 13, 2018, 05:00 AM

    USPS lacks transparency when discussing post office leases: Week’s Most Read

    Also this week, the USPS receives suggestions on how to improve collector relations, and the inspector general addresses the USPS recycling program.

  • carmel-post-office
    Apr 11, 2018, 03:45 AM

    Less transparency provided on U.S. Postal Service post office leases

    For years, the United States Postal Service has published on its website information about the rent it pays for postal facilities across the nation.

  • us-postal-service-recycling-go-green-stamp
    Apr 10, 2018, 07:15 AM

    U.S. Postal Service recycling program fall short of expectations

    The United States Postal Service began a national recycling program in fiscal 2014, spending $33 million.

  • april-columbia-tennessee-mule-postmark
    Apr 9, 2018, 07:15 AM

    Annual festival in Tennessee’s ‘Mule Town’ includes postmark

    A smiling mule is the subject of a pictorial postmark from Columbia, Tenn., a city often referred to as the “mule capital of the world.”

  • president-donald-trump
    Apr 4, 2018, 07:15 AM

    President Trump again comments on Amazon-U.S. Postal Service deal

    President Donald Trump seems determined to undermine the United States Postal Service’s relationship with one of its biggest customers.

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