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The U.S. Postal Service would cut Saturday mail delivery starting in the first half of 2011 under a plan the agency will give its regulator tomorrow.

The U.S. Postal Service will move this month toward reducing mail delivery from six days a week to five, a change Postmaster ...

Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all....

Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from ...

The Postal Service reported a net loss of $3.8 billion for the 2009 fiscal year, about $1 billion more than the previous year.

The Postal Service is offering $15,000 buyouts to employees in an effort to cut costs at a time when the post office is being ...

On this sultry weekend in the middle of August, take a look at what's on your kitchen counter. The Postal Service says it will lose approximately $7 billion this fiscal year. Americans have mailed 20 billion fewer items this year than they did last year. Over the past 20 years, some 200,000 mail-collection boxes have been removed from U.S. streets because not enough people were dropping their letters into them. The Government Accountability Office has officially declared the Postal Service to be a high-risk agency.

The Netflix warehouse in Carol Stream does not appear on any map. Your odds of finding it are slightly better than your odds of stumbling upon a rare insect in a field of weeds.

The post office says it lost $2.4 billion from April through June. That brings the year's losses so far to $4.7 billion. And the Postal Service expects to be $7 billion in the red when the fiscal year ends Sept. 30.

The Simpsons are being immortalized on stamps to be launched by the U.S. Postal Service later this year.