Shortly after 7 p.m. on Monday, 12,000 FedEx employees in Memphis stretched and flexed in concert and gulped holiday-colored sports drinks in preparation for processing 7,000 packages a minute. At United Parcel Service air headquarters in Louisville, Ky., employees are poised to handle 100,000 boxes from Zappos, the online shoe …

Norwood post office branch to remain openKnoxville News SentinelBy News Sentinel staff KNOXVILLE – The Norwood branch post office on Clinton Highway in Knoxville is being spared the budgetary axe. US Rep. …Knoxville post office won't be closedWVLTTell us: Depend on the Post Office?WBIR-TVNorwood post office no longer on closing …

EBay, the biggest marketplace on the Web, with nearly 90 million active users, is pinning its future on e-commerce and online payments. More: continued here

There weren’t as many letters or packages going in and out of the Garden City Post Office during the last holiday season as there are this year. More: continued here

Post Office offers shipping tipsGreene County Daily WorldWith 16.6 billion cards, letters and packages expected to be delivered this holiday season, the US Postal Service has some …Monday's mail meant most massive effort, post office reportsStandardNetReady, Set, Ship!WKBW-TVall 3 news articles » More: continued here

Oldhamers expecting Christmas parcels could face delays because of a pile up of mail at delivery offices. The warning came after it was claimed some post remained untouched for a week at Hamilton Street, the town’s main postal centre. More: continued here

Three Chattanooga neighborhoods are happy that their post office has been saved but that leaves one more still on the list for possible closure. The East Lake Post Office is among 170 nation-wide still being considered for shut-down and that is not sitting well with many customers. More: continued here

The post office in downtown Winston-Salem was removed from a potential closure list. More: continued here

Team members are checking their lists twice as they deliver millions of bundles of holiday cheer on the company’s busiest day of the year. More: continued here

Carrying two Christmas packages bound for her nephews in Texas and Switzerland, Carolyn Tsai took her place at the end of a line that spilled outside the post office in San Francisco’s Noe Valley onto the sidewalk Monday afternoon. Tsai didn’t know she was… More: continued here