Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday delivery by Aug. 1. How will this affect you?
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Wednesday, February 6
Calling the six-day-a-week mail delivery model “no longer sustainable,” the U.S. Postal Service Wednesday morning announced it will eliminate Saturday delivery of mail by Aug. 1. Post offices will remain open and package deliveries still will occur on Saturdays, however. How will this change affect you? Will you miss getting mail on Saturdays? Tell us in the comment section below. According to the U.S. Postal Service, the reasons are continued economic struggles and the increasing use of the Internet for communications and bill paying by consumers. The Postal Service is also the only federal agency required to pre-fund health benefits for retirees, and those costs are escalating quickly. “Our current business model of delivering mail six …
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Find out when items should be mailed to beat the holiday rush.
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
The holiday rush is about to set in. Along with waiting in line to buy gifts at stores, the lines can be even longer at the post office as gift givers mail cards and packages to friends and family across the county and world. The US Postal Service is anticipating this will be its biggest holiday season in its 237-year history. The postal service expects it will deliver 365 million packages this holiday season—a 20 percent increase over 2011, according to the USPS. The busiest mailing day for holiday cards and packages will be Dec. 17, when more than 655 million pieces of mail are expected to be processed—compared with 538 million on an average day, the USPS said. The busiest delivery day for letters will be Dec. 19, and the busiest day for…
Monday, May 7, 2012
Area food pantries reap the benefits of this national effort.
Leave non-perishable food items for your mail carrier on May 12 if you want to participate in this year’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive. This national effort will support area food pantries. “It’s our biggest food drive of the year,” says Melissa Travis, senior director of services for the People’s Resource Center in Wheaton. The center helps low-income DuPage County residents in many ways, including stocking a food pantry. Last year, the PRC received more than 10,000 pounds of food collected by the Stamp Out Hunger drive, Travis told Patch. The Elmhurst/Yorkfield Food Pantry, Lisle Township Food Pantry and HCS Family Services Food Pantry in Hinsdale are some of the other recipients. For a list of food pantries in DuPage County, click here. …
jolana
10:51 am on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Why aren't all government agencies required to prefund health benefits? Oh wait - like everything else - the government just pushes it off to another time and "kicks it down the road" more ›