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Postal Services

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Postal workers will distribute "anthrax medicine" on May 6

    Neither rain, nor sleet, nor plume of weapons-grade anthrax stays these couriers come May 6. That Sunday, the Minnesota Department of Health will launch a dry run of an anthrax attack response using postal workers and law enforcement escorts. It's a strategy that's been studied nationally since 200 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Postal service, citing loose dogs, halts delivery to Rochester trailer park

    ​Rochester mailmen are mad as hell and they aren't going to take it anymore.The U.S. Postal Service has suspended mail delivery to Rochester's Parkside Mobile Home Park following 42 "animal incidents" last year, most all of which presumably involved loose dogs. Parkside's roughly 100 residents wil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Dntel at Triple Rock Social Club, 8/11/11

    Photo by Barry Mulling​Dntel August 11, 2011 Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis Live shows by electronic artists are a tricky, delicate animal. Unlike music that is recorded with instruments, the songs--though they may move all over the place in terms of tone, pitch, mood, etc.--exist in wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Steven Jensen sold bogus 'authentic' baseball memorabilia for four years

    Steven Jensen ripped off baseball fans.​If you bought a "game-worn" jersey from Vintage Sports Authentics, odds are you didn't get what you paid for. Steven Jensen, co-CEO of Plymouth-based Vintage Sports, was busted in Chicago yesterday afternoon for selling fake game-worn jerseys to sports memo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    88 MN post offices studied for closure [LIST]

    WikipediaPeople in affected areas have 60 days to comment on the closures.​The U.S. Postal Service might be closing thousands of post offices across the country, and 88 of those being considered for permanent shutdown are in Minnesota.The Postal Service released a list of 3,653 prospective branche ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Minneapolis dogs 7th worst in U.S. for attacking mail carriers

    garlandcannonYour mail carrier doesn't want to see this.​All winter long, Minneapolis mail carriers slog through snow drifts. In the summer they're bombarded by the State Bird (not that one, this one). And all year long they have to worry about mean-ass dogs tearing a chunk of meat out of thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Stacey Champion tried to mail a poodle to Georgia in an airless box

    Samantha VelderPoodle tragedy narrowly averted.​Stacey Champion showed up at the post office on 12th Street North in downtown Minneapolis last Tuesday and tried to send a poodle to Georgia in a Priority Mail box with no air or food. Postal workers realized something was wrong when Champion paid ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 6, 2010

    Laarks

    Samantha VelderPoodle tragedy narrowly averted.​Stacey Champion showed up at the post office on 12th Street North in downtown Minneapolis last Tuesday and tried to send a poodle to Georgia in a Priority Mail box with no air or food. Postal workers realized something was wrong when Champion paid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Veterans Day: Some places are closed, some places are open

    Keep this nifty list in mind today and enjoy a mail-free day.

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    Columbus day: Some businesses still care enough to close

    It's Columbus Day and that means a few remaining businesses use the "holiday" to take a day off from work. God Bless 'Em.

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Police chief's brother charged: Would you like some meth with your junk mail?

    The brother of the Minneapolis police chief used and sold meth while on the job as a postal worker, according to charges filed Tuesday.

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Minneapolis police chief's brother arrested on possible drug charges

    The younger brother of Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan was arrested early Tuesday morning on possible drug charges in an ongoing investigation.

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2009

    Snail mail will cost you another two pennies

    The United States Postal Service now charges 44 cents for a first-class stamp for mailing a standard letter snail-mail style.

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Post Office hours reminder for the tax procrastinators

    Make sure you know the post office locations that will be OK with your terrible stalling habit unless you want to give the government some more of your dough.

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    Construction season: Another reason to avoid 35W

    Friday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    Best Buy reward missing? This postal worker might have used it

    Federal investigators say a Minneapolis worker stole more than 16,000 Best Buy certificates sent to customers and used them to buy items in the store.

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2008

    Dude, where's my stimulus check?

    Federal investigators say a Minneapolis worker stole more than 16,000 Best Buy certificates sent to customers and used them to buy items in the store.

  • Calendar

    November 14, 2007

    Small Sins

    Federal investigators say a Minneapolis worker stole more than 16,000 Best Buy certificates sent to customers and used them to buy items in the store.

  • Calendar

    September 12, 2007

    Rilo Kiley

    Federal investigators say a Minneapolis worker stole more than 16,000 Best Buy certificates sent to customers and used them to buy items in the store.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2007

    Vincent Wyckoff: Tales of a Letter Carrier

    Federal investigators say a Minneapolis worker stole more than 16,000 Best Buy certificates sent to customers and used them to buy items in the store.

  • Music

    February 11, 2004

    The Tables Have Turned

    Meet Janek Schaefer, master manipulator of the wheels of steel

  • News

    July 12, 2000

    P.O.'ed

    Jean Sandberg asked her post-office bosses to put a stop to the penis jokes and the wet T-shirt invitations. They sent her complaint to the dead-letter office.

  • News

    December 18, 1996

    IN THE SHADOW OF THE INFORMATION AGE

    Days and nights at the most maligned workplace in the country--the U.S. Postal Service.

  • Movies

    November 27, 1996

    1 Hit, 2 Dogs

    Days and nights at the most maligned workplace in the country--the U.S. Postal Service.

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