TIME Ending Saturday Delivery, End Of The Post Office?NPRPeople sick of receiving ads and newsletters in their mailbox soon will soon have a break on weekends. The U.S. Postal Service is halting Saturday mail deliveries. But how will it affect people who count on the mail for bills, checks, and …

TIME Is the Post Office Breaking the Law by Eliminating Saturday Delivery?TIMEThe U.S. Postal Service announced Wednesday morning that it was moving from six- to five-day delivery to help reduce its ever growing budget deficit. But for years, the post office has argued that it needed congressional authorization to do …

It was 2008 when Larry Langford raised eyebrows when he suggested that the iconic, yet financially troubled mail service, eliminate Saturday mail deliveries to conserve fuel and save millions of dollars. More: continued here

Royal Mail has won back a multi-million pound contract to deliver post for British Gas, six years after it lost the crucial business to Dutch rival TNT. More: continued here

Business Insider The Failure Of The Post Office Shows Why America Is DoomedBusiness InsiderTHE United States Postal Service has made a perfectly sensible decision. In light of the move by most Americans to electronic mail and online bill pay, it will no longer deliver the post on Saturdays. The volume …

Centre Daily Times Postal Service mulls future of Julian post officeCentre Daily TimesThe Postal Service, which announced Wednesday it's dropping Saturday first-class mail delivery by August to save about $2 billion, might close the Julian post office as part of a cost-saving measure to help the struggling agency survive in …

TexMessage: Blake Farenthold hails post office plan to ax Saturday mail deliveryHouston Chronicle (blog)Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, the new chairman of the House subcommittee overseeing the post office, strongly supports the postal service's plan to stop Saturday mail service beginning this August—though it will continue delivering packages … More: continued …

In her home at Rogers House in Lebanon, Betty Abbott, 89, talks about the decision of the postal service to no longer deliver mail on Saturday. “The big dogs get paid too much in the Post Office, just like the Congress and Senate and all of them,” she said. More: …

DHEC chief: Restrict food stamps, curb obesityWBTW – Myrtle Beach and Florence SCCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina's public health chief says further restricting what people can buy with food stamps might be a way to cut down on the state's obesity problem. Department of Health and Environmental Control director …

San Francisco Chronicle Congress is adding to post office bluesSan Francisco ChronicleCongress has resisted many of the Postal Service's efforts to generate new sources of revenue or to reduce costs, from raising the price of stamps to shuttering distribution centers and local post offices. Congress has effectively blocked efforts by …