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Catonsville post office partners with Harvest for the Hungry
Larry Adam has not lived in Catonsville for many years. But the retired broker, who can recall walking to St. Agnes School as a youngster, no doubt still takes some pride in the way his former home responds to the annual Harvest for the Hungry...
Tags: Mail Order Industry, Catonsville, Safeway Inc., Halethorpe, Baltimore County
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U.S. Postal Service issues stamped envelope with illustration by Md. artist
The U.S. Postal Service issued an illustration of a bank swallow by Maryland artist Matt Frey Friday as a stamped envelope, the second in a four-part series of swallows by Frey commissioned by the organization. The bird is the smallest swallow in North...Tags: Mail Order Industry, Government Postal Delivery
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Culleton: Work needed to keep U.S. Postal Service from becoming a dead letter
In Korea, back in the 1950s, a new commander arrived for the small military installation in Ulsan where I was stationed. One of his first acts was to issue a general order which read, "No stupid action will be taken by any member of this command." As a...Tags: Mail Order Industry, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Elections, U.S. Congress, Private Health Care
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Congress stacked the deck against the Post Office
Recent news coverage of the U.S. Postal Service's proposal to end Saturday mail deliveries has focused mainly on the public's reaction to the change ("For mail carriers, Saturday routes roll on — for now," Feb. 10). What has scarcely been...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Employees, Richard Nixon, George W. Bush
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Havre de Grace: Toss a silver dollar across the Susquehanna in honor of Washington
Happy President's Day, dear readers. Monday, Feb. 18 is the official observance, but President George Washington's birthday is Feb. 22. Slice that cheery pie from Goll's Bakery, 234 North Washington Street, 410-939-4321 and toss a silver dollar across...Tags: Christianity, Western Africa, American Legion, Havre de Grace, Anglicanism
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Loss of Saturday mail delivery meets mixed reactions
The U.S. Postal Service last week announced it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays in an effort to curtail losses it has seen in recent years. The changes, set to begin Aug. 5, should save the agency $2 billion annually at a time when the Postal...
Tags: Mail Order Industry, Business, Pension and Welfare, U.S. Congress, Employees
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Don't be surprised if Saturday mail delivery continues well beyond when it is supposed to end in August [Editorial]
It comes as no surprise that a wholly un-scientific person on the street survey in Bel Air and Havre de Grace last week indicated the reaction to the U.S. Postal Service ceasing Saturday letter deliveries would be no big deal. No doubt, there are some...Tags: Mail Order Industry, Havre de Grace, Elections, U.S. Congress, Harford County
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For mail carriers, Saturday routes roll on — at least for now
Wanda Feagen pulled on her blue United States Postal Service coat and a pair of thick black gloves shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday, blinking against a hard wind and waiting for her mail delivery truck to fill up on gas. "Hoo hoo!" she said of the cold...
Tags: Mail Order Industry, U.S. Army, Government Postal Delivery, Patrick R. Donahoe
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Plan to cut Saturday mail delivery gets ho-hum reaction in Harford
Many business owners interviewed along Bel Air's Main Street this week said they had no problem with the U.S. Postal Service's plan to eliminate Saturday mail delivery to homes and businesses, some going so far to say the move makes sense for the postal...
Tags: Mail Order Industry, Havre de Grace, FedEx Corporation, Drugs and Medicines, Prescription Drugs
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Dundalk residents react to Postal Service's decision to stop Saturday delivery
At the Dundalk Post Office this week, news that the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service would stop delivering mail on Saturdays beginning in August was greeted with a mix of apathy and understanding. Twenty-four-year-old Jordan Gillis said he wasn't...
Tags: Mail Order Industry, Bethlehem Steel, Dundalk, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. Congress
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Reactions mixed to Postal Service's decision to stop Saturday delivery
Word that the cash-strapped Postal Service would stop delivering mail on Saturdays hit Lakesha Johnson hard. "I think that's terrible," the Baltimore woman said Wednesday outside the city's Main Post Office on East Fayette Street. "When they want to...
Tags: Mail Order Industry, Parties and Movements, CNBC (tv network), Dundalk, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Reactions mixed to Postal Service request to stop delivering mail on Saturdays
Lanny Gans had not heard, until she went to the Roland Park post office Wednesday, that the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service plans to end Saturday service in August, in an effort to save $2 billion a year.. "I hate to see anything like that...
Tags: Mail Order Industry, Financial and Business Services, Government Postal Delivery, Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland), Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland)
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