I didn’t realize until the other day when I actually HAD to go to the post office how horribly depressing of an event it had become. Growing up and through most of my life the post office had always been a hub of activity for the town. You would run into a neighbor or someone you knew and the peop...

Look no farther than the week’s transport news to get an idea of what kind of muddle we’re in. My Forever stamp is getting to look more and more like the best thing in my portfolio as the Post Office moves toward 44-cent stamps, and oh, incidentally, says that it thinks it can no longer afford S...

  I bet I mail one letter a month.  I send more packages than I do letters. (CNN) -- "Sending a letter will soon be a little more expensive, the U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday.  The price for a first-class mail stamp will increase 2 cents to 44 cents, starting May 11. The Postal Service sa...

Auf der St. Pauli Lesung im letzten Herbst kam das Thema schon einmal auf und gestern auch schon wieder: wie verändert sich das Millerntor, wenn die Haupttribüne erst neu, wenn alles umgebaut und voller Logen ist? Schon jetzt reiht sich der FC St. Pauli glänzend ein, in das gute Geschäft Fußbal...

Congress can be a bit nutty. They demand 6-day a week postal delivery and then complain about the rising cost of postage stamps. At least from a customer point of view, the USPS is being straight-forward about their problems. Food companies have tried to shrink their packages, put in false bottoms, ...

striatic posted a photo: "Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds" - Herodotus bastardized...

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...

Aus Protest gegen die Zerfaserung des Bundesliga-Spieltages zugunsten der TV-Verwertung durch die neuen Anstosszeiten der DFL 2009/2010 - bspw. in der 2. Bundesliga am Sonntag um 13:30 Uhr - oder auch das länger schon bei Auswärtsfahrern verhasste Freitagsspiel um 18:00 (Montag 20:15 Uhr ist natü...

As we suggested in MRN Marketing Right Now - The Plan, having no plan at all may be hazardous.  Mark Evans expressed that sentiment in writing RIP Twitter. Gone are the days when you could start, grow and finance a business based on the notion that if we build it, they (consumers and advertiser...

Reader Joe wrote to us with a heads-up about not short-changing the U.S. Post Office. His postman left him a serious-ass invoice charging Joe with 1¢ postage due. According to Joe's rough numbers, the PO spent at least $.25 to pay the postman for the estimated minute it took to write the invoice. J...