WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Postal Service has found itself in the worse financial situation in history.
According to official U.S. Government data reports, the USPS lost an amazingly unbelievable total of $5.2 billion during the third qu...
CHEYENNE, Wyoming - Wyatt Blatzenfeller has been a postal carrier for the Cheyenne Post Office since 1972, a total of 40 years.
He recently spoke to Anderson Cooper on Anderson Cooper 360 and told him that in that time he has never once been bitten by a dog or even been approached by a dog.
He noted that he personally knows of 17 postmen who were bitten by a dog while delivering the mail.
To millions of Americans who, for years, have encountered difficulties in receiving packages scheduled for delivery by the United Parcel Service, it arguably came as little surprise when an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation recentl...
Individual Replies to my Unsolicited Mail received over the last 10 days:
From Southern Electric/Nottingham City Council:
Offering me the chance of, Cavity Wall insulation @ only £49
Reply: "Thank you kindly for the unsolicited offer. I already have cavity wall insulation. However, should anyone ask me about such a service, I will undoubtedly pass on your colourful leaflet.
From Eddieble P...
In order to keep from falling into bankruptcy and eventual insolvency, the United States Postal Service has announced that they will forgo overnight delivery as well as the day after delivery and the day after that and so forth and re-install the Pon...
Washington, DC - A Congressional panel that's searching for ways to save the crumbling US Postal Service has recommended that the agency increase its profits by becoming the nation's narcotics distribution network.
With the Internet and e-mail dev...
The Postal service has announced that the shape of its postage stamps is to change shape for the first time in over a hundred years on the first of April this year.
The change in the design is to enable blind customers to be able to attach their...
It's not like I called every catalog company in North America and said "Hey, could you please send me one of those neato catalogs that you mail out?"
That never happened.
I admit the girl can shop. But 50 new catalogs per week, 49 of which I have never ordered anything from? I'm afraid to go to the mailbox for fear of running into our Korean letter carrier. The last time he saw me he s...
A woman sent a mass holiday mailing last week updating her friends and family on all the things which happened to her during the year. Citing being "too busy" to contact any of them personally, Jane Smith, 40, chose the group mailing approach.
Re...
Biologists in Wyoming's famous Cheyenne Think Tank believe they have solved a major problem with the nations mail service by breeding pigeons and buzzards to carry 90% of the nation's cards and letters.
"This will free up the US Post Office to eli...
Norfolk Novelty Singer Allan Smethurst - whose 1965 novelty hit Hev Yew Gotta Loight Boy? briefly outsold both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones - was a fake, it was claimed yesterday.
"Not many realise he'd given up his job by the time he got famous", Jed Thuckle, a retired rook-slaughterer from Diss, told me.
This shock revelation - made at Diss watering-hole The Scold's Bridle and Duck...
Every magazine receives fan mail, even an on line publication such as this one. Some of this mail will be complimentary of stories or of the publication in general, while other letters condemn us for articles or jokes that were found to be offensive to them.
Below are some of the highlights of mail received in the past months from the readership of The Spoof:
Letter from "Chesty" in Nashvil...
The United States Postal Service Warned today Dec 16th, that threats to the President must be posted no later than Friday, December 18th to reach the White House in time for Christmas. President Obama is already receiving up to 9,000 per month.
Brian Ferry has become a postman. Appalled at the threat to the future of the Royal Mail the former Roxy Music front man decided it was time to take action. He has been working on a new version of the Postman Pat song with Brian eno and hopes to rele...
Dutch delivery company TNT is lobbying the Government to grant them the authority to put their own postmen on the streets. Initially this is just to deal with the Royal Mail industrial action planned for later this week, however, soon our nation's st...
There was amazement and shock today, as a courier working on behalf of a large catalogue ordering shop, delivered an item to the customer. Residents of William Shatner Crescent, were out on the streets in awe of the magnificent achievement by the cou...
Washington DC: In keeping with President Obama's campaign promise to reduce government waste the USPS will now be operated by private enterprise, namely FEDEX Corporation.
The president has been very supportive of competition between potential co...
Top Beatles drummer Ringo Starr's dramatic refusal to sign autographs from October 20th has created chaos at his local postal sorting office.
"It's OK for him to make such a statement but what happens when he has a recorded delivery?" said Ivor Pa...