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By Aug 20, 2020
Science

The Postal Service helps keep millions of Americans alive and well

Many rely on the mail for delivery of prescriptions and disease testing.
By Jul 9, 2015
Aviation

Switzerland Has Started Testing Mail Delivery Drones

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By Sep 12, 2013
Technology

The UK Is Selling Off Its Mail System

The government has filed an "intention to float" which sounds pretty pleasant, like "we're taking Fido to live on a...
By Sep 5, 2013
Technology

Drones Are Now Delivering Packages In One Chinese City

Like robot courier pigeons, with about the same carrying capacity
By Feb 7, 2013
Technology

When Will The Internet Become Faster Than FedEx?

There’s a great little post on XKCD examining the speeds of data delivery–especially useful given today’s confirmation that Saturday USPS...
By Aug 17, 2011
Technology

Australians Could All Get Free Lifetime Federally Hosted Inboxes, If Government Quits Snail Mail

In the future, all your government mail — jury duty slips, election notices, those Social Security earnings statements — may...
By May 6, 2011
Technology

Tech Evangelists To Meet in DC to Figure Out the Future of the Postal Service

And debate whether it even has a future at all
By Apr 5, 2011
Technology

The Postal Network: USPS Trucks Could Monitor Air Quality, Road Conditions and Traffic Nationwide

Telematics, a mash-up of telecommunications and informatics, is the science of scanning the world with wireless devices to extract data,...
By Mar 10, 2011
Technology

Swedes, Danes Consider Dumping Postage Stamps for Codes Sent Via Text

Postmasters in Sweden and Denmark are looking into a clever system of vending postage that a cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service...
By Dec 20, 2010
Technology

Radical Ideas: By Adding Sensor Arrays, Postal Trucks Could Become a Nationwide Data-Collecting Network

How to save the waning U.S. Postal Service