Hundreds of people around the world are applying for a coveted job to run the world’s most remote post office. The position is based in Antarctica, and one of the key specifications is the ability to count penguins. Four candidates will be chosen to fill the five-month role at Port Lockroy...
More of your mail is about to get slower. First it was letters and now some packages may take longer to arrive. The U.S. Postal Service currently considers a first-class package to be late if it's delivered more than three days after it was sent. But under new standards that take...
Residents on the 1300 block of 14th Street in Santa Monica, Calif., will no longer find their mail in their mailboxes. Instead, they’ll have to pick it up at their local post office, the city postmaster said in a letter last week. The move was necessary for the safety of the...
Ukrposhta, Ukraine's postal service, has met Russia's invasion head on, delivering mail and vital aid throughout the country. Other European posts have stepped up to assist Ukrainians fleeing the war, and those still in the country. In other news, some posts are struggling financially while others are expanding. And the...
Natalia Kuhta was in the post office, getting ready to go out on her postal round, when a Russian shell hit a street corner 600ft away. It turned the stretch of road she was about to walk down into a snarl of blackened metal, gouged asphalt and splintered wood. The windows...