With more business closing, mail and package delivery services are taking different routes to cut costs. The U.S. Postal Service may make history for the wrong reason, as it contemplates cutting as many as  40,000 workers (out of 685,000) . According to the Washington Post, USPS mail volume dro...

Staggering under what Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton termed "unprecedented" demand for tickets to attend the swearing-in of President-elect Barack Obama, some members of Congress have suspended taking requests, and others are talking about holding lotteries for the chance to witness history....

As I had stated before in my anti-DHL post, I had never had a problem with FedEx before. Well, now I have. Wednesday night I ordered my camera that is coming with two lenses and a couple of other things, also a memory card and an extra battery. The battery and memory card shipped from one location, ...

FedEx tried to deliver the letter today but there was nobody home to sign for it. Tomorrow is another day. I love the internet and my Blackberry...I got an email from FedEx this morning at 7:00am my time saying that delivery had been attempted, but "customer (was) not available." Almost instantly I ...

Between the trials, tragedy and the triumph, the 8th instalment of Atlassian FedEx day came and went. 49 projects were submitted in the biggest and the best one yet! Projects spanned the entire gamut; from playing shiny new toys like Skitch, EC2, Groovy to parallelising Maven downloads and addin...

Last week my Verizon Broadband card started to act up after the TSA abused my computer bag. So I did the normal call in and get a replacement under the paid warranty I had with Verizon. Not only was the process easy, but the overall ability of the service agent was far beyond anything I had ever see...

Hopefully I am not alone, however since I have moved near Union Square in San Francisco off Geary st. I have had a continual strugal with the major carriers delivering in my area. My building has a gate in front, where you must dial the tenant to be buzzed in. A simple task, I would expect, especial...

I think the suits fucked this one up: FedEx will record a $700M charge to drop the name Kinko’s from its FedEx Kinko’s locations. The non-cash charge of $2.22 a share will be taken in the fiscal fourth quarter, which ended on May 31, FedEx said today in a statement. The cost, linked to u...

Helga Johnson, 73, remembers fleeing her Berlin home in 1944 with the Russian army hot on her trail. She remembers coming back to Berlin a year later and nearly starving in the aftermath of World War II....

What started as a routine trip ended in verbal fisticuffs when reader Matthew went to go pick up his package at a local Fedex receiving center in NYC. He thought that his door ticket and identification was enough to get his package but Fedex said he also needed "verification of address" in the form ...