WASHINGTON – The National Postal Museum has received an US$8-million donation to build a new street-level gallery in Washington, D.C. More: continued here
Read More »Bernie Fuchs, Illustrator for Magazines and Advertisements, Dies at 76 (New York Times)
Mr. Fuchs was an artist of magazine illustrations, presidential portraits and postage stamps, whose vibrant paintings captured of middle-class life in pre-Vietnam America. More: continued here
Read More »Steelton mayor hopes council resolution will help save post office (The Patriot-News)
Steelton Mayor Tom Acri is making one final push to save his borough’s nearly 100-year-old post office. Acri asked Steelton Borough Council on Monday night to pass a resolution urging lawmakers as well as the U.S. Postal Service to keep the office open. More: continued here
Read More »FedEx’s Freight Unit President and CEO to Retire (ABC News)
FedEx’s freight unit President and CEO Doug Duncan to retire on Feb. 28 More: continued here
Read More »FedEx Express to Take Delivery of First 777 Freighter (Journal of Commerce Online)
FedEx Express took delivery Tuesday of its first 777 freighter during ceremonies with the Boeing Company in Everett, Wash. The event comes as FedEx and other carriers are rapidly cutting back freighter capacity to weather the global economic downturn. More: continued here
Read More »Delivery offices in mail strike (BBC News)
Royal Mail workers in Cornwall and Devon are to take part in industrial action next week, the Communication Workers Union says. More: continued here
Read More »Royal Mail workers in the York area set to vote for postal strike (York Press)
UNION leaders warned today that 1,400 postal workers across the York area look set to vote for a crippling strike – unless Royal Mail returns to the negotiating table. More: continued here
Read More »Royal Mail workers in the York area set to vote for postal strike (York Press)
UNION leaders warned today that 1,400 postal workers across the York area look set to vote for a crippling strike – unless Royal Mail returns to the negotiating table. More: continued here
Read More »Former post office official sentenced in $190,000 theft (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Ulysses Bradley and another man charged the government for extensive washing and high-end maintenance to post office vehicles that was never done, postal inspectors said. More: continued here
Read More »FedEx’s freight unit president and CEO to retire (Newsday)
NEW YORK (AP) — FedEx Corp., the world’s second largest package delivery company, said Tuesday the president and CEO of its freight unit will retire. The company said Tuesday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that Douglas G. Duncan, 58, will step down on Feb. 28. FedEx …
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