http://www.mail.com/organizations/23160-united-postal-service.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/organizations/23160-united-postal-service.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/2095100-fbi-searches-apartment-ricin-letter-case.html SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the letters, ... Sun, 19 May 2013 01:28:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2095100-fbi-searches-apartment-ricin-letter-case.html 2013-05-19T01:28:38Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2087300-la-worst-city-dog-attacks-mail-carriers.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service says Los Angeles was the worst city in America for dog attacks on letter carriers last year, and it urged pet owners to help reduce the attacks. The agency on Wednesday released its city rankings ahead of National Dog Bite Prevention Week, which starts Monday. The Postal Service said nearly 5,900 postal workers we... Wed, 15 May 2013 14:29:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2087300-la-worst-city-dog-attacks-mail-carriers.html 2013-05-15T14:29:57Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2040404-justice-armstrong-was-unjustly-enriched.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The federal government is going after Lance Armstrong's money. As much as it can get. The Justice Department unveiled its formal complaint against Armstrong on Tuesday, saying the cyclist violated his contract with the U.S. Postal Service and was "unjustly enriched" while cheating to win the Tour de France. The gov... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:23:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2040404-justice-armstrong-was-unjustly-enriched.html 2013-04-24T07:23:04Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2039058-lemond-no-vendetta-armstrong.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond says he has "no vendetta" against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong and hopes professional cycling can clean up its sport. LeMond spoke Monday night at a University of Texas symposium on doping in sports. Despite more than a decade of clashes with Armstrong in a feud that he said pushed him... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:23:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2039058-lemond-no-vendetta-armstrong.html 2013-04-23T14:23:02Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2028176-lance-armstrong-manager-hails-cyclings-new-era.html LONDON (AP) — Lance Armstrong's former team manager believes cycling has entered a new era after months of controversy, much of it provoked by the disgraced former seven-time Tour de France winner. In his first website posting since August, when the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency alleged massive doping by Armstrong's Tour de France teams, Johan Bruyneel wrote on... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:25:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2028176-lance-armstrong-manager-hails-cyclings-new-era.html 2013-04-18T14:25:45Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2002956-armstrong-asks-court-to-dismiss-sca-lawsuit.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong has asked a Texas court to dismiss a lawsuit by a Dallas promotions company seeking repayment of more than $12 million in bonuses paid for winning the Tour de France. SCA Promotions sued Armstrong and his manager, Bill Stapleton, in state district court in Dallas in February. It contends Armstrong committed fraud by us... Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:28:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2002956-armstrong-asks-court-to-dismiss-sca-lawsuit.html 2013-04-06T21:28:24Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1915628-worlds-postal-services-struggle-with-lower-demand.html OTAKI, New Zealand (AP) — Sandra Vidulich is so excited about the leather boots she ordered through Amazon that she rips open the box in front of the postman and tries them on. "I looove them," she declares, as the driveway at her tree-lined home in rural New Zealand briefly becomes a catwalk. "They're cool." For now, a boom in Internet shopping is helpin... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:37:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1915628-worlds-postal-services-struggle-with-lower-demand.html 2013-02-27T15:37:47Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1908574-us-joins-fraud-lawsuit-lance-armstrong.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department joined a lawsuit Friday against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that alleges the former seven-time Tour de France champion concealed his use of performance-enhancing drugs and defrauded his longtime sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service. The lawsuit alleges that riders on the postal service-sponsored team, including A... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:42:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1908574-us-joins-fraud-lawsuit-lance-armstrong.html 2013-02-22T22:42:49Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1907450-usada-lobbied-doj-to-join-lawsuit.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency lobbied Attorney General Eric Holder for the Justice Department to join a whistle-blower lawsuit against Lance Armstrong on the same day the cyclist confessed in an interview to performance-enhancing drug use. USADA chief executive Travis Tygart wrote Holder on Jan. 14, urging him to join the ci... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:52:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1907450-usada-lobbied-doj-to-join-lawsuit.html 2013-02-22T04:52:24Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1889706-postmaster-us-saturday-mail.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. Postal Services pleaded with Congress Wednesday not to thwart his plan to cut Saturday mail as a way to save money, but postal workers unions criticized the plan as illegal and financially questionable. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told a Senate committee hearing that the plan announced last week is one among a... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:15:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1889706-postmaster-us-saturday-mail.html 2013-02-13T20:15:38Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1877848-postal-service-lost-13-billion-quarter.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service lost $1.3 billion in the final three months of last year, despite a blizzard of campaign advertising for the fall political elections and a big holiday mail and shipping season. The loss announced Friday was far less than the $3.3 billion in the comparable quarter the previous fiscal year, but still showed the eff... Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1877848-postal-service-lost-13-billion-quarter.html 2013-02-08T18:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1876000-who-grew-up-with-snail-mail-ready-to.html SEAL BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The death of Saturday mail delivery would seem to have the biggest impact in places such as Leisure World, where residents — many in their 80s and 90s — grew up with the mailbox as their connection to the rest of the world. But many people just don't care in the Southern California community where life slowly revolves around golf... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:41:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1876000-who-grew-up-with-snail-mail-ready-to.html 2013-02-07T20:41:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1873282-netflix-gain-loss-sat-mail-delivery.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix won't miss Saturday mail delivery, even though the weekend service helped keep its DVD-by-mail subscribers happy. The U.S. Postal Service's planned shift to five days of home delivery a week instead of six may even make Netflix Inc. slightly more profitable by lowering the costs for sending out its familiar red envelopes with ... Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1873282-netflix-gain-loss-sat-mail-delivery.html 2013-02-06T21:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1867736-postal-service-honors-rosa-parks-with-stamp.html DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of people, including some of Michigan's political elite, gathered Monday to celebrate the late Rosa Parks on what would have been her 100th birthday by unveiling a postage stamp in her honor steps from the Alabama bus on which she stared down segregation nearly 60 years ago. Parks, who died in 2005, became one of the enduri... Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1867736-postal-service-honors-rosa-parks-with-stamp.html 2013-02-04T23:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1852980-zealand-mulls-cutting-mail-delivery-to-3-days.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Snail mail may be about to get even slower in New Zealand. The country's postal service is considering cutting delivery from six days a week to three to cut costs as people increasingly turn to the Internet to pay bills and communicate. The island nation of 4.5 million is among many countries struggling to sustain a viable p... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1852980-zealand-mulls-cutting-mail-delivery-to-3-days.html 2013-01-29T07:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1846588-cycling-agrees-to-amnesty-doping-confessions.html LONDON (AP) — Cyclists will be offered a chance to confess to past doping offenses without fear of retribution in an attempt to uncover the full scale of the Lance Armstrong scandal and drug use in the sport. The UCI agreed Friday to introduce a "truth and reconciliation" commission with the World Anti-Doping Agency, cutting out the independent panel esta... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1846588-cycling-agrees-to-amnesty-doping-confessions.html 2013-01-25T19:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1846016-cycling-agrees-to-truth-reconciliation-process.html LONDON (AP) — Cycling's governing body agreed Friday to introduce a "truth and reconciliation" commission with the World Anti-Doping Agency, effectively undermining the independent panel investigating the Lance Armstrong scandal. The UCI established an independent three-person panel to investigate accusations that its leaders covered up suspicious doping ... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1846016-cycling-agrees-to-truth-reconciliation-process.html 2013-01-25T15:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1831358-armstrong-emotional-when-recalling-talk-with-son.html CHICAGO (AP) — Lance Armstrong finally cracked. Not while expressing deep remorse or regrets, though there was plenty of that in Friday night's second part of Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey. It wasn't over the $75 million in sponsorship deals that evaporated over the course of two days, or having to walk away from the Livestrong cancer charity h... Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1831358-armstrong-emotional-when-recalling-talk-with-son.html 2013-01-19T09:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1828862-armstrong-admits-doping-im-flawed-character.html CHICAGO (AP) — He did it. He finally admitted it. Lance Armstrong doped. He was light on the details and didn't name names. He mused that he might not have been caught if not for his comeback in 2009. And he was certain his "fate was sealed" when longtime friend, training partner and trusted lieutenant George Hincapie, who was along for the ride on all se... Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1828862-armstrong-admits-doping-im-flawed-character.html 2013-01-18T12:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1827196-ex-cycling-head-defends-money-link-to-lance-team.html WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — The former president of cycling's governing body says there was no conflict of interest when he invested in a brokerage account later linked to Lance Armstrong's team owner. It was "cynical" for U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart to suggest to The Wall Street Journal that the business relationship "stinks to high heaven,"... Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:44:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1827196-ex-cycling-head-defends-money-link-to-lance-team.html 2013-01-17T13:44:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1822460-wada-lance-armstrong-to-confess-under-oath.html LONDON (AP) — Lance Armstrong must make a full confession under oath — not just an admission in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey — if he wants authorities to consider lifting his lifetime ban from sports, the director of the World Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday. WADA director general David Howman told The Associated Press that Armstrong's interv... Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1822460-wada-lance-armstrong-to-confess-under-oath.html 2013-01-15T22:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1821010-ap-source-armstrong-tells-oprah-winfrey-doped.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong has finally come clean. After years of bitter and forceful denials, he offered a simple "I'm sorry" to friends and colleagues and then admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs during an extraordinary cycling career that included seven Tour de France victories. Armstrong confessed to doping durin... Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1821010-ap-source-armstrong-tells-oprah-winfrey-doped.html 2013-01-15T07:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1817680-armstrong-awaits-candid-oprah-interview.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Out for a Sunday morning jog in bright sunshine, Lance Armstrong hardly looked like a man about to finally confront the doping scandal that has shadowed his storied career like an angry storm cloud. "I'm calm, I'm at ease and ready to speak candidly," Armstrong told The Associated Press, referring to his interview Monday with Oprah Wi... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:22:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1817680-armstrong-awaits-candid-oprah-interview.html 2013-01-13T21:22:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1728320-postal-chief-lays-plan-agency-survival.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service says the agency must be allowed to ease the terms of prepayments into a retiree health care fund and eliminate general mail delivery on Saturday. Patrick Donahoe tells "CBS This Morning" the agency isn't asking Congress for money. He says, "I think most people don't realize, we'r... Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1728320-postal-chief-lays-plan-agency-survival.html 2012-11-28T12:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1718504-cash-strapped-post-office-tests-same-day-delivery.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Emboldened by rapid growth in e-commerce shipping, the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is moving aggressively this holiday season to start a premium service for the Internet shopper seeking the instant gratification of a store purchase: same-day package delivery. Teaming up with major retailers, the post office will begin the expedited... Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1718504-cash-strapped-post-office-tests-same-day-delivery.html 2012-11-23T07:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1718710-fewer-holiday-catalogs-plenty-mail.html PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Catalog shopper Kerry Falagario would be hard-pressed to tell that there's been a decrease in catalog circulation. They're coming fast and furious this time of the year: catalogs from specialty tool companies for her husband, who likes to tinker; American Eagle, Justice, Delia's and Body Central for her daughters, ages 8 and 14; and Pottery Barn or oth... Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1718710-fewer-holiday-catalogs-plenty-mail.html 2012-11-23T00:50:00Z