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    BOVARD: 'We deliver' NOT!

    The Justice Department on Tuesday joined a lawsuit accusing Lance Armstrong of defrauding the U.S. government. The U.S. Postal Service spent $40 million sponsoring Mr. Armstrong's bicycling team from 1996 through 2004, including the years when he won six Tour de France titles.

  • Court says post office must do better by Gamefly

    The U.S. Postal Service must come up with a better solution to a questionable pricing structure affecting Gamefly's video game DVDs and Netflix's movie DVDs, a federal appeals court said Friday.

  • Illustration: Broken Post Office

    EDITORIAL: The mailman vs. FedEx

    The Postal Service is coming to grips with its diminished relevance in a digital society. The question is whether Congress will follow suit.

  • American Scene

    The man who killed his two sons in an explosive house fire in Washington state will not be buried in the same cemetery as the children, his family said Thursday.

  • Letter carrier Felipe Raymundo moves a cart of mail to his truck to begin delivery Monday in Seattle, the same day the cash-strapped Postal Service said it will close 252 mail processing. (Associated Press)

    Lack of cash means slower mail delivery

    The U.S. Postal Service moved to change first-class mail delivery standards for the first time in decades, seeking to end next-day delivery for letters, a grim reminder of the need to save the nation's mail service, one lawmaker said.

  • **FILE** A Postal Service letter carrier delivers mail in the snow in Berea, Ohio. (Associated Press)

    Mailing a letter to cost a penny more next year

    The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday that it will increase postage rates on Jan. 22, including a 1-cent increase in the cost of first-class mail, to 45 cents.

  • The cost of first-class stamps will increase to 45 cents Jan. 22, a 1-cent increase. Raised postage rates are "needed to help address our current financial crisis," Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said. (Associated Press)

    Cash-strapped Postal Service to charge 45 cents per stamp

    The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday that it will increase postage rates Jan. 22, including a 1-cent increase in the cost of first-class mail, to 45 cents.

  • Postal Service favored Netflix, regulators rule

    Four years after inspectors found that the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service could save tens of millions of dollars by charging Netflix for hand-sorting its DVD mailers, postal executives have refused to make the change. Now, regulators are calling the Postal Service's treatment of Netflix discriminatory.

  • Correction

    A Tuesday Commentary item titled "Postal Service delivers bill of goods to taxpayers" referred to the Postal Rate Commission. The independent agency that exercises regulatory oversight of the United States Postal Service is the Postal Regulatory Commission.

  • Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe said Thursday he will continue to support ending Saturday mail. The measure must be approved by Congress. (U.S. Postal Service)

    Report: Postal Service figures overstated Saturday savings

    The Postal Service overstated its potential savings from eliminating Saturday delivery, a proposal that would slow delivery of about 1 in 4 letters, the independent Postal Regulatory Commission said Thursday.

  • **FILE** Leacroft Green places a package to the correct shipping area at an Amazon.com fulfillment center in Goodyear, Ariz., on Nov. 11, 2010. (Associated Press)

    Probe finds Amazon used wrong postal rates

    A recently settled U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigation into online retailer Amazon.com revealed the company was shipping parcels at postal rates cheaper than the prices they were entitled to receive, records show.

  • Political Scene

    The Obama administration is set to announce approval of a 1,000-megawatt solar project on federal land in Southern California, the largest in a series of solar projects given the go-ahead in recent weeks.

  • The U.S. Postal Service in 2010 issued a 44-cent first-class stamp honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. (AP Photo/U.S. Postal Service)

    Rate board denies Postal Service price increase plea

    The independent panel that oversees the U.S. Postal Service has denied the agency's request to increase the cost of mailing a letter by 2 cents — to 46 cents.

  • Political Scene

    Former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday afternoon left an Ohio hospital, where he spent two days recovering from a viral infection doctors say likely gave him stomach problems.

  • **FILE** In this photo from May 11, 2009, a letter is mailed from a post office in Palo Alto, Calif. (Associated Press)

    U.S.P.S. ad costs may have been misreported

    Made popular by the "If it fits, it ships" slogan in television ads, the Priority Mail initiative is seen as a bright spot during otherwise tough economic times for the U.S. Postal Service, where multibillion-dollar deficits and declining mail volume have officials moving to cut a day of delivery.

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