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US Post Office's Rescue Plan: Junk Mail
Many consumers are irked by the catalogs, credit-card pitches and other "junk mail" they receive. But the U.S. Postal Service loves it—and wants to deliver more.
Obama endorses ending one day of mail deliveryRANDOLPH E. SCHMID AP 09/19/2011 | |
 Already weary of high gas prices and 9.1 percent unemployment, many Americans are about to get another kick in the wallet thanks to large increases in their electricity bills. |  President Barack Obama said Monday the U.S. Postal Service should be allowed to reduce mail delivery to five-days-a-week to help cut its massive losses. |
Ohio to charge inmates $1 per month for electricity ZanesvilleTimesRecorder 03/19/2011 | Impoverished New Jersey City To Close All Libraries My FOX NY 08/06/2010 |
 Ohio inmates paying their debt to society also will have to pay $1 per month for electricity and deal with less variety at meal time, including fewer beverage choices, under prisons department spending cuts intended to help the state close an expected $8 billion budget hole. |  CAMDEN, N.J. - New Jersey's most impoverished city will close all three branches of its public library at year's end unless a rescue can be pulled off. |
No water deal in California, but talks will continue San Francisco Chronicle 10/10/2009 | U.S. and Cuba meet on resuming direct mail serviceJeff Franks Reuters 09/18/2009 |
 Sacramento, Calif. (AP) - Negotiations seeking to forge a wide-ranging water deal in California ended quietly Friday night, despite Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's assurance hours earlier that a deal would be struck by the end of the day. |  U.S. and Cuban officials met on Thursday to discuss the possibility of resuming long-suspended direct mail service in a first round of talks that Cuba described as "broad and useful." |
US Postal Service Considering Closing 413 Post OfficesAngela Greiling Keane Bloomberg.com 09/02/2009 | Congress asked to OK postal cutsJim McElhatton The Washington Times 08/06/2009 |
 The U.S. Postal Service, seeking to close a $7 billion budget deficit, pared to 413 the list of post offices it is considering for closure or consolidation. |  U.S. Postmaster General John E. Potter went to Capitol Hill on Thursday to seek permission to cut a day of mail delivery as the Postal Service faces the worst financial crisis in its 234-year history, and a key lawmaker said Congress may have to rethink its long-standing opposition to the idea. |
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