Pundits are chalking up the recent one-cent increase in first-class postage as the latest business decision to be devoured by rising gasoline prices, but the truth is that the U.S. Postal Service -- and South Florida's taxpayers -- have more at stake than piles of undelivered mail because of unfilled...
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Remember the old Saturday Night Live skit about the First CitiWide “change bank” that does nothing but make change? Our customers ask us how we make a profit, quips the bank’s spokesman. “The answer is simple -- volume.” As laughable as this dubious business plan sounds, it bears many similarities to...
The U.S. Postal Service has announced that it will raise its prices again on May 12, after losing $5 billion last year. This represents the second rate hike in as many years. It’s also a step toward the annual price increases the agency has predicted since it was granted greater...
Is it time to end the federal government's monopoly on using your mailbox? Perhaps you've come home to find that online purchase you've been waiting for sitting on your front stoop, out in the open. Or perhaps you got home from work to find, instead of that important document or check,...