All posts tagged "U S Postal Service"

A former Utah mail carrier dumped about 300 primary ballots in a church dumpster to "lighten his workload," federal prosecutors said.

According to a detention filing, former Utah postman Damon Matai Seei was charged with a single count of secretion, destruction, and delay of mail.

Prosecutors say Seei was covering a colleague's route in Eagle Mountain, Utah, on June 3 when he was "entrusted with delivering mail to at least 300 persons" in the area. That mail included advertisements and hundreds of ballots meant for voters in the state's June 23 primary election....

A St. Louis man who admitted to mailing cat feces to prospective employers was sentenced last week to probation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service on Monday moved forward with plans to end next-day delivery of letters, postcards and other First Class mail.

WASHINGTON — The US Postal Service unveiled Thursday a drastic downsizing scheme for the embattled public company, including cutting 35,000 jobs, as it seeks to avoid collapse amid a "new reality" in the economy.

WASHINGTON — The US Postal Service plans to slash its workforce by 20 percent, eliminating 120,000 jobs by 2015 as it struggles to stay solvent, The Washington Post reported late Thursday.