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- The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service [pdf] https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_USPSPrivatization_July2020.pdf 542 comments
- Who Killed the Postal Service? http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/who-killed-the-postal-service/249508/ 8 comments
- Don’t Kill the U.S. Postal Service. Unshackle It. https://news.yahoo.com/don-t-kill-u-postal-103023423.html 8 comments politics
- How Congress, not email, is trying to kill the U.S. Postal Service http://www.salon.com/2013/02/06/congress_not_email_destroyed_the_postal_service/ 474 comments politics
- Who Killed the Postal Service? http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/who-killed-the-postal-service/249508/ 30 comments business
- Who Killed the Postal Service? - USPS is slashing first-class delivery, cutting billions of dollars, and looking to cut thousands of workers. How did it get this bad? http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/who-killed-the-postal-service/249508/ 113 comments politics
- The Justice Department, FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service today announced that the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed five individuals and sickened 17 others, has formally concluded. http://pubrecord.org/law/6991/conclude-probe-anthrax-attacks/ 7 comments politics
- If we let the US Postal Service die, we’ll be killing small businesses with it https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/24/if-we-let-the-us-postal-service-die-well-be-killing-small-businesses-with-it/ 1594 comments politics
- As Trump threatens to kill Postal Service, #SaveUSPS pushes for action https://www.salon.com/2020/04/14/as-trump-threatens-to-kill-postal-service-saveusps-pushes-for-action/ 258 comments politics
- Save the Postal Service - sign the WH petition to end the GOP Legislation that is killing it https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/save-postal-service-save-american-jobs/drcmychz 6 comments politics
- Not the Internet, not the recession, not private competition, Congress is killing the postal service: US Postal Workers Begin 4-Day Hunger Strike in Protest http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/25/155711014/postal-workers-begin-four-day-hunger-strike-protesting-financial-situation 81 comments politics
- The plot to kill the U.S. Postal Service: "The fire sale of postal properties is a textbook case of a favored few squeezing profits from a manufactured crisis." http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/the-plot-to-kill-the-u-s-postal-service-5069955.php 165 comments politics
- How Darrell Issa and the Right Are Planning to Kill the U.S. Post Office: The Postal Service faces a threat greater than email or economics: Politics. http://www.alternet.org/story/154596/how_darrell_issa_and_the_right_are_planning_to_kill_the_u.s._post_office_/?page=entire 6 comments politics
- If the Postal Service Dies, So Does Democracy — Republicans are now trying to kill the post office and mail-in voting. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/04/11/if-the-postal-service-dies-so-does-democracy/ 3363 comments politics
- If You're Looking for an Example of Why People Aren't Voting Today, Look at the Postal Service: "Parties aside, Congress is quietly helping to kill a working institution, solely for idealogical reasons. And remember: The USPS doesn't cost taxpayers a penny." http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/postal-service-2014 687 comments politics
- The truth about the Postal Service deficit: Republicans in 2006 passed the Postal Accountability & Enhancement Act, which mandates the postal Service to pay employee pensions for the next 75 years within a 10 year time frame. Effectively killing the Post office that has existed since 1775. http://www.mlive.com/opinion/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/09/letters_public_needs_to_hear_t.html 34 comments politics
- Russians have used long range weapons to shell a Novaya Poshta [private postal service] facility in Kharkiv where Ukrainians were receiving humanitarian aid, killing 6 people and injuring 15 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/03/24/7334193/ 7 comments worldnews