Newtown Post Office Creates PO Box for letters
Monday the Postal Service dedicated a post office box to the town.
Monday the Postal Service dedicated a post office box to the town.
But some Chesterfield residents are frustrated and say it isn’t an isolated incident.
But if Congress does nothing, come next spring, the Postal Service will truly start running out of cash.
Your mailbox may be getting a lot more junk mail soon.
The U.S. Postal Service’s financial struggles continued into 2012, as the agency reported a $5.2 billion loss for the three months ended June 30.
Postal officials have pledged that employees and subcontractors will continue to be paid and mail will be delivered as normal.
Next week will mark an important milestone in the service’s struggle to pay an important debt to the government.
The $15,000 buyouts, pro-rated for part-time staff, are available to nearly all of the Postal Service’s mail handlers, excluding around 2,000 who aren’t career employees.
No one’s quite sure what happens if Aug. 1 rolls around and the Postal Service has to use all its cash on the fund to prepay healthcare benefits for retirees.
Two letter carriers are taking action against what they call a hostile working environment–being forced to deliver packages to nude customers.
It’s an effort that could save thousands of jobs and 100 mail processing plants now slated to be closed or consolidated next month.