Mail

The U.S. Postal Service would eliminate Saturday delivery and postpone billions of dollars in payments to its retiree health-plan fund, should Congress approve an Obama administration plan to help the nation's mail carrier avoid bankruptcy. The proposal, part of President Barack Obama's $3 trillion deficit ...

Plenty of Americans would like to get paid to do nothing while at work, and it seems that workers for the U.S. Postal Service already enjoy that perk, although fewer of them are doing so. The deliverer of the nation's mail paid $4.3 million for nearly 171,000 hours of standby time during the first six months ...

It's not an easy time to be in the mail delivery business. The woes of the U.S. Postal Service have been well and widely documented, but the sector as a whole has been battered like few other by the digital age. With the need of its primary service -- the delivery of mail -- being rendered obsolete by e-mail, ...