President Trump’s task force to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service is up and running, and despite concerns that its members would simply follow the direction preset by the tweeter-in-chief, stakeholders in the postal community are impressed with seriousness and attention to detail with which the group has approached its undertaking. The...
The greatest public speaker I've ever seen was former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. I watched him in 2005 as he gave a speech to a crowd outside a train station. He thundered, cajoled and generally mesmerized the assembled throng. This was all the more impressive given that the topic...
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a successful takedown of drug traffickers in Operation Saigon Sunset, dismantling a major criminal network responsible for trafficking drugs from Detroit to Huntington, West Virginia. The investigation was massive, seizing enough fentanyl to kill a quarter-million people. Every American should be grateful for...
The U.S. Postal Service reported Friday a second-quarter net loss that widened to $1.34 billion from $562 million a year ago. The controllable loss, which excludes items that are non-recurring and outside of management control, was $656 million vs. a profit of $12 million a year ago. The controllable loss...
Amazon.com Inc’s 20 percent hike in the cost of Prime membership should deliver more than $1 billion in extra revenue this year and cover any “rational” hike in United States Postal Service delivery fees, Wall Street analysts said on Friday. President Donald Trump has been laying into the Seattle-based online shopping...