Tag: POST OFFICE

With more people shopping online, a United States Postal Service (USPS) proposal to stop delivering mail on Saturdays could impact many online retailers. But outlets are split as to what exactly that means. According to The Washington Post, Amazon and Netflix representatives will testify today at a Senate hearing about the potential plan to axe Saturday deliveries, which would force Amazon to ...

Just when we were about to write off snail mail for good, a couple of guys from Syracuse University may have just made it relevant once more by brilliantly fusing Google with the USPS. Rahul Mohtani and Yofred Moik's Google Envelopes, if implemented into Gmail, would allow users to send paper versions of their e-mails to real, non-dot-com addresses, encased in specially designed map envelopes. As ...

A former government employee amassed quite a collection of DVDs over the years, but there's one problem. They were all stolen property. Myles Weathers, who worked at a postal sorting facility in Springfield, Massachusetts, plead guilty Tuesday to federal theft charges. According to The Smoking Gun, Weathers swiped 3,012 Netflix DVDs, worth about $36,471, during his tenure as a postal worker. ...