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Letter to the editor: Congress should repeal law affecting Postal Service

Did you know, in 2006, Congress passed legislation that forced the U.S. Postal Services to prefund its retirement and health care to cover 75 years in the future and to do this in a 10-year window? This has cost the Postal Service $5.5 billion a year, and has put an undue financial burden on the Postal Service that no other company/business has been required to do.

By By Hazel L. Scott, Jamestown , February 16, 2013

Expect more Monday mail under new plan

A plan to end Saturday delivery of mail will mean bigger deliveries on Mondays, according to letter carriers and U.S. Postal Service officials.

By Chris Olson, The Jamestown Sun , February 11, 2013

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Newspapers among those affected by plan

The U.S. Postal Service announced Wednesday it plans to end Saturday home delivery of mail, including newspapers and magazines, starting Aug. 5. Package delivery and mail to post office boxes would continue and post offices would remain open on Saturdays under the plan.

By By Chris Olson, The Jamestown Sun , February 07, 2013

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Postal Service to cut Saturday delivery: Action needed to stem red ink, agency says

Postal Service to cut Saturday delivery: Action needed to stem red ink, agency says Saturday mail may soon go the way of the Pony Express and penny postcards. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages to stem its financial losses in a world radically re-ordered by the Internet.

By By Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press , February 07, 2013

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Postal Service looks to improve oil patch service

The U.S. Postal Service is taking steps to improve service in western North Dakota's booming oil patch, where an influx of people from around the country has led to problems such as slow mail delivery and long lines at post offices.

January 11, 2013

USPS out to ‘restore faith’

USPS out to ‘restore faith’ The U.S. Postal Service has carriers working into the night — delivering mail at 8 p.m. or later — as it has struggled to keep up with North Dakota’s oil boom, but an official visiting the area this week says that’s going to change.

By By Amy Dalrymple, Forum News Service , January 10, 2013

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Postal Service holding meetings in Oil Patch

The U.S. Postal Service is holding public meetings this week in the western North Dakota Oil Patch communities of Watford City, Williston and Tioga.

January 09, 2013

Postal Service holding meetings in ND oil patch

The U.S. Postal Service is holding public meetings this week in the western North Dakota oil patch communities of Watford City, Williston and Tioga.

January 08, 2013

Postal Service eyes operations in ND oil patch

The U.S. Postal Service says it will evaluate post offices in western North Dakota to address the impact of the oil boom on mail delivery.

January 05, 2013

Mailing a letter to cost a penny more next year

WASHINGTON (AP) — It'll cost another penny to mail a letter next year.

By Hope Yen, Associated Press , October 12, 2012

Watford City postmaster tries to keep up

Watford City postmaster tries to keep up The post office here closes for an hour each day, but you won’t find Postmaster Jason Hirst taking a leisurely lunch. After two longtime employees left, Hirst was forced to close the window from 12:30 to 1:30 each day just so he can get some work done.

By By Amy Dalrymple, Forum Communications , July 16, 2012

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USPS: Rural post offices will stay open

Bending to strong public opposition, the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday backed off a plan to close thousands of rural post offices after May 15 and proposed keeping them open, but with shorter operating hours.

By By Hope Yen, Associated Press , May 10, 2012

Senate votes to slow closing of post offices

The Senate offered a lifeline to the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, voting to give the struggling agency an $11 billion cash infusion while delaying controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending Saturday delivery.

April 26, 2012

USPS head visits possible closing sites

The top U.S. Postal Service official on Thursday took his case for rural post office closures straight to those it will hurt most, telling residents in Montana’s capital and one of its smallest towns that thousands of post offices nationwide must be shuttered to cut costs.

By By Matt Gouras, Associated Press , April 13, 2012

CA postal employee pleads guilty to stealing $11K

A former U.S. Postal Service employee has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor embezzlement for stealing more than $11,000 at the post office in Rio Linda, north of Sacramento.

March 20, 2012

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