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Memorial Day: Is it time for a 'victory' stamp to support vets?
WASHINGTON — During World War II, Americans of all ages shelled out dimes and dollars for the war effort. In recent days, with Memorial Day approaching, a bipartisan group of lawmakers was seeking to fire up that patriotic spirit with the...
Tags: Memorial Day, World War II (1939-1945), Mail Order Industry, Peace Corps, Natural Resources
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Data for 700,000-plus home-care workers, recipients goes missing in mail
PolitiCalPersonal data for more than 700,000 people who provide or receive home care for the elderly and disabled may have been compromised when payroll data went missing in the mail, according to an internal government email obtained by the Los...... -
Postal Service plans to keep rural post offices, cut hours
WASHINGTON — TheU.S. Postal Servicebacked off from a proposal to close thousands of rural post offices, opting instead to cut opening hours in a bid to stem devastating financial losses. The postal service estimates that the new plan will save $500...
Tags: Politics, Career and Workplace, Mail Order Industry, Labor Legislation, Darrell E Issa
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Money Minute: How about a latte with your postage stamps? [Video]
It's fair to say that any business losing almost $1 billion a month needs to rethink it's game plan. And that's what the U.S. Postal Service says it's doing. The Postal Service lost $3.2 billion in the quarter ended March 31, a hefty increase from $2.2...
Tags: Starbucks Corp., American Airlines, Inc., Mail Order Industry, Marketing
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USPS keeps rural post offices open, cuts hours
WASHINGTON -- The United States Postal Service stayed the sword hanging over thousands of rural post offices, opting instead to cut opening hours in a bid to stem devastating financial losses. The USPS estimates that the plan will save $500 million a...
Tags: Politics, Mail Order Industry, Joe Lieberman, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance
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Florida postal worker says Yemen mystery package made him ill
ORLANDO, Fla. — A postal worker says a mysterious leaking package from Yemen has left him seriously ill, but the U.S. Postal Service denies the package existed. The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, in a story printed in Sunday's Miami...Tags: Yemen, Mail Order Industry, The Miami Herald
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Festival of Books: American poets make their debut on forever stamps
Jacket CopyThe U.S. Postal Service made a special delivery Saturday at the L.A. Times Festival of Books' Poetry Stage: It rolled out the first-day issue of commemorative stamps dedicated to 20th century poets. The midday first-day issue ceremony drew an audience....... -
Senate approves bill to help United States Postal Service
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a bill aimed at salvaging the United States Postal Service, which is hemorrhaging millions of dollars a day as fewer people send letters and conduct business by mail. The legislation would allow the postal service...
Tags: Politics, Mail Order Industry, Joe Lieberman, Bankruptcy, Rand Paul
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Accident that killed postal worker referred to L.A. city attorney
L.A. NOWThe case of a driver who struck the rear end of a U.S. Postal Service van in Boyle Heights, severing the legs of a postal worker who later died of his injuries, has been referred to city prosecutors, authorities said...... -
Art Center buys postal facility, plans to expand and renovate
Culture MonsterArt Center College of Design has announced it's buying a 2.5 acre former postal facility and parking garage next to its satellite campus in south Pasadena. President Lorne Buchman's administration is laying the groundwork for a major fundraising... -
Letter carrier dies of stroke after being attacked by dog
L.A. NOWA 59-year-old employee of the U.S. Postal Service has died of a stroke after being hospitalized with dog bites suffered while she was delivering mail, according to the San Diego County medical examiner.... -
An appreciation: Barney Rosset, contemporary literature's champion
Los Angeles Times Book CriticBarney Rosset, who died Tuesday at the age of 89, was the most important American publisher of the 20th century. Sure, he was part of a lineage; it's difficult to imagine Rosset doing what he did for more than 30 years at Grove Press without the...Tags: Samuel Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Book, Literature, Jean Genet
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