Denmark's postal service company to end letter-carrying service after 400 years due to digitization
Physical letters have declined dramatically in volume over the last twenty five years, the company said, from almost 1.5 billion in the year 2000 to only 110 million in 2024, over a 90% decrease.
UK Post Office scandal led to 13 suspected suicides, says report setting out toll
For the first time in Israel: The new UPS service
Israel’s postal service to be privatized, communications minister announces
Austria prints a postage stamp to remember COVID-19 by, on toilet paper
The 2.75 euro "corona stamp" comes in sheets 10 cm wide, or a tenth of the 1 meter that the government advises members of the public to keep apart from each other.
Postal workers accused of interfering with US election mail-in ballots
A Kentucky postal employee was fired after investigators said that more than 100 mail-in ballots were dumped. Collection boxes were ransacked outside of six Virginia post offices.
US judge temporarily blocks 'politically motivated' USPS changes
"The states have demonstrated that the defendants are involved in a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the postal service."
A call to regulate private courier companies
The problem is the almost total lack of supervision over these companies, which do more or less as they please, frequently leaving us as customers totally helpless when problems emerge.
Envelope of deadly poison addressed to White House intercepted
Ricin is found naturally in castor beans but it takes a deliberate act to convert it into a biological weapon.
Congresswoman denied access to mailing facility, hints at electoral fraud
“If DeJoy thinks he can just throw a bed sheet over what’s going on behind these doors, he is sadly mistaken. It looked like the post master had something to hide.”
Trump campaign sues Democratic Montana governor to limit mail-in voting
The Trump campaign has also taken legal action to block mail-in voting procedures in Nevada and New Jersey. Election experts have said there is scant evidence of fraudulent postal voting in the past.
Ahead of US elections, opinions on mail-in voting are divided – study
Factors involved include state, race and candidate of choice.
Israel Post expected to be hit by NIS 50m. in losses in 2nd quarter
The losses were caused by a drop in sales and package deliveries, along with the halt in operations of international trading companies such as Alibaba.
Why do Israeli services treat the public as the enemy? – opinion
If Israel’s national leaders could find a front-of-house way to practice niceness to people we would all feel better.
