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Post Office Will Not Deliver Mail on Saturdays Anymore

Chris Chaberski — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:37:14 +0000

Starting this summer, you won’t be getting any mail over the weekend. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe announced Wednesday that due to budget issues, the US Postal Service will cease all mail delivery on Saturdays. Packages will still be delivered, though. The move is expected to save $2 billion. Online bill paying has surged since 2008, [...]

Living People To Be Featured On U.S. Postage Stamps

Steve Tanko — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:43:19 +0000

These are challenging times for the the United States Postal Service. These are also “changing” times. Ending a policy that has been in place since it’s inception, the U.S. Postal Service announced that it will begin featuring images of people who are still alive. We wanted to make sure the people we suggested had stood [...]

Watch a Mailman Get Run Over by His Own Mail Truck [VIDEO]

Kool Staff — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:00:47 +0000

What's funny about this video isn't just the fact that the mailman gets run over by his own mail truck after exiting the vehicle and leaving it in reverse.

It's that the unmanned mail truck is able to weave itself through the parking lot without causing any damage before it actually runs over the forgetful mailman. (Eventually, though, the runaway mail truck does start hitting parked cars.)

"That's the Wrong Statue of Liberty" and Other Postage Stamp Fails

Kool Staff — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:41:26 +0000

The United States Postal Service just released a new stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty. The only problem is, the Lady Liberty featured in the photo isn’t the one that has spent the last 125 years in New York Harbor, rather it’s a 14-year-old replica which currently sits in front of the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In real life, the casino Statue of Liberty is only half the size of the original. However, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between the two in the photo on the stamp.