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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : United States Postal Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The postal service was created under Benjamin Franklin on July 26, 1775 by decree of the Second Continental Congress.
		A branch or post office branch is a postal facility that is not the main post office and that is outside the corporate limits of the community.
		After this time they are copyright by the postal service under Title 17 of the United States Code.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /United_States_Postal_Service (3366 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: United States Postal Service
		The postal service was created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin on July 26, 1775 by decree of the Second Continental Congress.
		The USPS is the third-largest employer in the United States (after the United States Department of Defense and Wal-Mart) and operates the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world, with an estimated 170,000 vehicles, the majority of which are the easily identified "USPS Mail Trucks," as shown in the pictures to the right.
		Standard postal service vehicles do not have license plates; instead, a truck is identified by blue numbers on its back.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/United-States-Postal-Service (1294 words)

	United States Postal Service - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an "independent establishment of the executive branch" of the United States government (see 39 U.S.C.) responsible for providing postal service in the United States; it is generally referred to within the United States as "the post office."
		The USPS is the third-largest employer in the United States (after the United States Department of Defense and Wal-Mart), and operates the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world, with an estimated 170,000 vehicles, the majority of which are the easily identified "mail trucks," as shown in the pictures to the right.
		It does, however, receive compensation from taxpayer funds for certain services that it is mandated to provide for free or at a discount, including free mail for the blind, military mail, nonprofit mail and overseas ballots.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/United_States_Postal_Service (4476 words)

	United States Postal Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an "independent establishment of the executive branch" of the United States Government (see 39 U.S.C.) responsible for providing postal service in the United States.
		The Department of Defense and the USPS jointly operate a postal system to deliver mail for the military; this is known as the Army Post Office (for Army and Air Force postal facilities) and Fleet Post Office (for Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard postal facilities).
		The Inspector General, who is independent of postal management, is appointed by and reports directly to the nine Presidential appointed Governors of the Postal Service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Postal_Service (5959 words)

	Postal Service workers
		Efforts by the Postal Service to provide better service may somewhat increase the demand for window clerks, but the demand for such clerks will be offset by the use of electronic communication, such as the Internet, and private delivery companies.
		The role of the Postal Service as a government-approved monopoly continues to be a topic of debate.
		Occupations whose duties are related to those of Postal Service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators include inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers, and material moving occupations.
	stats.bls.gov /oco/ocos141.htm (2222 words)

	GAO finds Postal Service reforms not reaching potential (5/19/04)
		Postal Service officials suspect this resistance may stem from the fact that, under the old system, contractors were often able to retain extra profits when they bought fuel that was lower than the price of reimbursement.
		While the Postal Service claims $5.9 million in savings from reverse auctions, GAO auditors considered $2.1 million of it to be questionable due to incorrect baseline data or unsubstantiated statistical analysis.
		The Postal Service claimed $71.1 million in savings and revenue in fiscal 2003 for those five products, but GAO was unable to validate the reported savings because of errors in the baseline data.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0504/051904e1.htm (936 words)

	ET 06/00: Postal Service addresses sticky situation with adhesive breakthrough
		But through the leadership of the Postal Service and cooperation between the public and private sector, the "sticky" problem may soon be a thing of the past.
		The Postal Service has a long history of leadership in recycling efforts and protection of the environment, and although stamps were a very small part of the "sticky" problem, the Postal Service saw an opportunity for public policy leadership and took on the task of developing an environmentally friendly adhesive.
		The Postal Service is one of the largest recyclers in the nation, operating more than 20,000 recycling centers, and is the largest user of recycled motor oil and retreaded tires.
	www.sdearthtimes.com /et0600/et0600s8.html (612 words)

	GOVERNMENT / U.S. Mail System / Postal Service at edge of financial precipice / Internet use takes huge bite from ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Postal Service officials say e-mailed bills and online bill payments are threatening the future of the $17 billion in annual revenue that the Postal Service derives from the two-way mail traffic.
		From the Postal Service's perspective, the trend will only worsen as banks consolidate statements, print statements on both sides of the page and send images rather than checks back to customers to cut the weight and expense of their first-class mail.
		Postal officials concede the assault of 21st century technology on postage revenue makes 2001 a milestone in the 226-year history of the national postal system.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/05/13/MN233436.DTL (920 words)

	Postal Service Transformation Plan Will Help Save the Mail
		Under the CGE, the Postal Service would set rates more predictably, be able to retain earnings, work under private sector labor laws and, depending on future legislation, could even pay taxes or dividends to the government.
		The proposed legislative changes would be the most extensive since the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, which enabled the Postal Service to function effectively until the end of the 20th Century.
		The Postal Service receives no taxpayer dollars for routine operations, but derives its operating revenues solely from the sale of postage, products and services, offering some of the most affordable postage rates in the world.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-05-2002/0001700570&EDATE= (632 words)

	Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. - Postal Service Cost Cutting Does Not Jeopardize Antitrust Exemption
		When the Postal Service terminated its contract with Flamingo, Flamingo brought suit claiming it was terminated so the Service could give no-bid contracts to cheaper foreign manufacturers without allowing U.S. companies to compete for the business.
		The Postal Service had argued that it was an “independent establishment” of the executive branch of government, and therefore entitled to “status-based” sovereign immunity from the antitrust laws.
		The 9th Circuit disagreed, based on language in the 1971 Postal Reorganization Act that the Postal Service can “sue and be sued.” According to the Circuit, that language meant that any immunity the Service had was “conduct-based,” limited only to its narrow statutory monopoly in the market for letter carriage and delivery services.
	www.fredlaw.com /articles/marketing/mark_0405_rjw.html (814 words)

	You’ve Got . . . U.S. Mail?
		The Postal Service proposes to assign everyone a free e-mail address on the basis of his or her street address, which raises the possibility that those addresses could be turned into massive mailing lists, making people susceptible to “spam” (junk e-mail) and mail fraud.
		All Postal Service activities are tax-exempt, and the massive retirement fund for its 900,000 employees is subsidized by federal government matching grants.
		Certainly, the Postal Service loses patrons when people use e-mail rather than traditional “snail mail.” But this does not justify expanding into electronic services; rather, it is a sign that the time has come to remove the Postal Service’s special protections and allow everyone in the message delivery business to play by the same rules.
	www.cato.org /dailys/08-30-00.html (733 words)

	Tampabay: His pain defeated Postal Service
		The Suncoast District of the Postal Service classified Albrecht and other workers permanently injured on the job as "permanent rehabilitation employees." For Albrecht, that meant he couldn't unload mail trucks anymore.
		Postal Service supervisors said they denied Albrecht promotions because he had a poor attendance record, according to court records.
		In court, the Postal Service argued that Albrecht's complaint was largely an "individualized occurence" and that Albrecht failed to prove he or other injured employees suffered any of the alleged harms, according to federal court records.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/02/02/Tampabay/His_pain_defeated_Pos.shtml (1431 words)

	Wired News: Postal Service Eyes .us Domain
		In a move aimed at accelerating electronic commerce, the US Postal Service is quietly but aggressively trying to assume authority of the United States' official top-level domain,.us.
		The draft, the authenticity of which the postal service confirmed, was posted on the Communications Privatization mailing list today by Gordon Cook, publisher of the Cook Report on Internet newsletter.
		Postal service spokeswoman Sue Brennan said the proposal was developed at the urging of the White House.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,13129,00.html (1147 words)

	The Athens NEWS: Twice weekly alternative
		The Postal Service does not close its branch offices lightly, and there is still hope that a new home will be found in Hockingport for the post office, Neinaber said.
		The Postal Service is currently under a moratorium on spending money on new buildings except for special cases, and the Postal Service has had no discussions about moving the post office from Stimson Avenue, Neinaber said.
		The Postal Service is staying competitive with the privately run parcel businesses, but is losing some of its first-class mail business due to e-mail and electronic payments, Neinaber said.
	www.athensnews.com /issue/article.php3?story_id=13731 (891 words)

	FederalTimes.com
		The Postal Service will remain a wholly government entity under these bills, and the only way to give it additional tools to operate in the marketplace is to have appropriate oversight,” Taub said.
		The Postal Service hopes this word change could be made and the issue of regulatory oversight remedied in the Senate bill so these matters do not have to be debated in a joint Senate-House conference, which would meet to iron out any differences between the two versions, Day said.
		On balance, the Postal Service would prefer to forgo the financial relief than live with a seriously flawed bill, Day said, adding that in the wake of an expensive Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina devastation, the financial relief might not be forthcoming anyway.
	www.federaltimes.com /index2.php?S=1130137 (654 words)

	eKantipur.com - Nepal's No.1 News Portal
		Aug 29 - If you are subscriber with Everest Postal Care — GPO Box 8975 -then as soon as your letter or parcel arrives at the General Post Office (GPO), it suddenly overrides the snail mail service that the HMG postal service is associated with.
		Appreciating the enormous untapped market in postal service and considering the increasing demand, Nepal’s first private postal service, Everest Postal Care, was established in 1995.
		The basic service provided by EPC is similar to that of the GPO, though it has enhanced services in some other areas.
	www.kantipuronline.com /kolnews.php?&nid=16603 (704 words)

	CNN - Postal Service delivers online - December 24, 1999
		Although the Postal Service has been accused of being late to the digital marketplace, the government agency believes that it can leverage its capability of serving millions of consumers and businesses by beefing up its back-end electronic fulfillment capabilities and effectively complementing mail delivery with e-mail and e-commerce services.
		The new e-post office box service and other e-commerce initiatives of the Postal Service might actually serve as a segue to a time when most mail and messages will be electronic.
		Overall, the Postal Service is anticipating a wave of e-commerce initiatives.
	www.cnn.com /1999/TECH/computing/12/24/postal.service.idg/index.html (773 words)

	Postal Service offers overhaul bill wish list (4/23/04)
		The Postal Service produced a list of provisions this week it would like to see in postal overhaul bills that lawmakers plan to introduce next week, although it may be too late.
		At the request of the House Government Reform and the Senate Governmental Affairs committees, the Postal Service submitted 29 proposed amendments to postal bills the committees approved in previous years.
		The list does not include two issues the Postal Service has said are essential -- transferring military retirement payments back to the Treasury Department and abolishing an escrow account the Postal Service is scheduled to begin paying into in 2006.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0404/042304cdpm2.htm (360 words)

	Postal Service is dying a slow death
		So you might not know that the U.S. Postal Service -- employer of 900,000, friend of senior citizen, foe of dog, bearer of the mail through rain, sleet, snow and dark of flout, knitter of national unity since the founding -- is dying.
		A little-noticed consensus has emerged that the Postal Service is in a "death spiral" of falling mail volume, rising costs and rate increases that spur more volume declines.
		The Postal Service "might be nearing the end of an era," the GAO said.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/30/ED237242.DTL (653 words)

	Postal Service accountability=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Unless postal executives and regulators have a clear picture of what is actually going on, the chances of effective reform are bleak and costs will continue to spin out of control.
		True postal reform will remain an impossible task until USPS accounting is straightened out and a much higher level of transparency introduced — the kind of transparency private corporations are routinely required to provide.
		If the Postal Service is ever to be held accountable for such abuses, it must first be required to have transparent accounting.
	www.thehill.com /op_ed/050604.aspx (755 words)

	POSTAL SERVICE V. FLAMINGO INDUSTRIES (USA) LTD.
		The District Court dismissed the antitrust claims, concluding that the Postal Service is not subject to liability under federal antitrust law.
		However, the other considerations the Court has discussed lead to the conclusion that, absent an express congressional statement that the Postal Service can be sued for antitrust violations despite its status as an independent establishment of the Government, the PRA does not subject the Postal Service to antitrust liability.
		This conclusion is consistent with the nationwide, public responsibilities of the Postal Service, which has different goals from private corporations, the most important being that it does not seek profits, §3621.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/02-1290.ZS.html (823 words)

	The Slow Death of the U.S. Postal Service
		The Postal Service is misleading the American public on the quality of mail service it provides.
		The history of the Postal Service in the 1980s is largely a history of boondoggles.
		The implicit motto of every monopoly is, "The public be damned!" As long as the Postal Service has no competition, it will have little or no incentive to treat its customers with the respect they receive elsewhere in a competitive economy.
	www.cato.org /pubs/pas/pa102es.html (621 words)

	Postal Service Zip to District Table Q&A
		The Postal Service table is based entirely on congressional district assignments to zip codes that are done by USPS state and regional offices.
		We started testing the Postal congressional zip-to-district table in January 2005 and it was amazing how good the Postal Service had gotten with their data.
		If you get the Postal Service table and find something you know is incorrect send it to us and we'll pass it on to the Postal Service.
	www.congressmerge.com /products/PostalQandA.htm (851 words)

	PostalWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It is widely held that the Postal Service enjoys exemption from the antitrust laws, Administrative Procedures Act, and other statutes requiring federal agencies to justify their regulatory actions including conducting economic impact studies and cost / benefit analyses prior to enacting regulations.
		However, considering that over 10,000 receiving agencies and their boxholders were impacted by the proposed revised rules, a better business practice would have been to take into account the concerns from all sources, including all competing businesses.
		Enactment of the revised rules created the appearance that the Postal Service misused its regulatory authority to hinder competition and contributed to public perception that associated costs for implementing the revised rules were unnecessary and burdensome.
	www.postalwatch.org /2001_04_27_pr_oig_pmb.htm (825 words)

	Postal Service retracts notice to identify senders - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The U.S. Postal Service is withdrawing a notice in the Federal Register because its wording suggests that a plan to identify senders of bulk mail is the first step to identifying the senders of all mail.
		Privacy advocates criticized the notice, which directly quoted a presidential commission report calling for the Postal Service to develop technology to identify all individual senders.
		Asked if the Postal Service is moving toward sender identification for all mailers, the spokesman said, "Both the White House and Congress would have to determine how they want to transform the Postal Service."
	www.washtimes.com /national/20031029-105105-4585r.htm (464 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/United States Postal Service
		The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an "independent establishment of the executive branch" of the United States government (see) responsible for providing postal service in the United States; it is generally referred to within the United States as "the post office."
		The USPS is the third-largest employer in the United States (after the United States Department of Defense and Wal-Mart) and operates the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world, with an estimated 260,000 vehicles, the majority of which are the easily identified "mail truck", as shown in the pictures below.
		The Postal Service from 1837 until 1970 used a running pony as its logo when it was replaced by an eagle.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service (5036 words)

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