United Shipping Solutions recently announced that they have formed a partnership with the United States Postal Service. Under terms of the partnership, United Shipping Solutions will sell expedited services for the United States Postal Service. Those expedited services will include flat rate, priority and express products.
Robert Ross of United Shipping Solutions believes that this will be a very powerful partnership.
“We are very excited about this new opportunity with the United States Postal Service… this is an unprecedented partnership in our industry, makes a lot of sense, and should be very successful for both parties,” said Ross. “We believe that our …read more

About 150,000 United States Postal Service workers (about one fourth of USPS workers) will be offered early retirement, they announced today. The Postal Service has been hard-hit by the recession, and this is just one of the ways they hope to eliminate costs.
They’ve already cut over 50 million workhours, and some post office locations have less hours, depending on their traffic. Some have pushed for the elimination of Saturday delivery, which would cut the number of workhours for post office employees even more.
Also announced today, six of the 80 USPS district offices will be closing. The offices are locates in …read more

I don’t have too many unused electronics kicking around but I definitely have a few, like my “old” cell phone. It’s actually less than 4 years old but has become obsolete – doesn’t hold a charge and the company no longer makes replacement batteries for this oh-so-outdated model.
The sales rep who sold me my new phone suggested I place the old one in their collection bin to be donated to women who are escaping domestic abuse situations. My thought on that was what good is giving a phone that doesn’t work to someone in a dangerous situation? So the phone …read more