Thanks to our wonderful United States Postal Service
The fact is that these hard-working postal workers deliver 112 billion pieces of mail annually to 320 million people at 168 million addresses six days a week, 52 weeks a year.
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Now that the Christmas season is over, I think it is a good time to thank all...
Rural families struggle with slower postal deliveries
Reliable mail service is not a luxury in rural America. It is a necessity for receiving checks, handling daily business, and getting critical medicine and supplies that many families cannot easily pick up in town. But delays are becoming more common, and the frustration is spreading well beyond Iowa....
2025 Rural Carrier Year in Review
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2026 Printable Rural Carrier Calendars
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Just uploaded our new printable 2026 Rural Carrier Calendars. Just download one of them and print to keep by your case to keep up with all the important dates for rural carriers.
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A US Postal Service plan to raise cash could cost the agency its biggest customer
For years, a huge Amazon contract has been one of the few bright spots in the US Postal Service’s finances. But now the USPS plans to offer those last-mile services to additional customers to stem billions in ongoing losses – a move that risks losing its biggest customer.
The USPS...
Merry Christmas from Ruralinfo.net
Wishing you happy holidays and a new year that makes you smile every day.
Here’s the story of how holiday stamps came to be
Using holiday stamps to send season’s greetings may seem like a centuries-old tradition, but it’s really a relatively recent phenomenon.
The first-ever Christmas “stamp” was a nonpostage seal, an idea developed in 1904 by a postal clerk in Denmark to sell seals to raise funds to help children with tuberculosis.
That...
