U.S. Postal Service Cancels Saturday Mail Delivery

We want to know: How will the Post Office's latest announcement affect you and your business?

The U.S. Postal Service Wednesday morning announced it will eliminate Saturday delivery of mail by Aug. 1. The current six-days-per-week mail delivery business model is “no longer sustainable,” according to the U.S. Postal Service. Continued economic struggles and the increasing use of the Internet for communications and bill paying by consumers are among the key factors that lead to the decision. Saturday is also the lightest mail day of the week. “We must change in order to remain an integral part of the American community for decades to come,” reads a message on the U.S. Postal Service website. The majority American’s don’t seem to mind whether they get Saturday mail delivered or not. A Rasmussen poll on mail delivery in 2012 showed “…

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What Do You Think of the Post Office? How Would You Fix It?

Is there a solution to the declining revenues of the U.S. Postal Service. Is it an agency that still is viable?

People tend to have strong opinions of the post office, or more properly, the United States Postal Service.  From crabby clerks in the post offices themselves, to the love expressed for the individual letter carrier, there are strong feelings for the agency called on to carry the nation's mail. There has been discussion of dropping one day of mail delivery as the Postal Service struggles to cope with declining revenue from the services it provides. Email has all but replaced regular letter writing, leading fewer people to buy postage stamps, which always seem to inch up in price. There has even been talk locally of closing post offices such as the one in Maplewood. Missouri U.S. Sens. Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill have sponsored …

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Harold Clifton

7:15 am on Thursday, October 25, 2012

At least once a week, my mail goes to the wrong address, and "sometimes" I get it sometimes I don't. I say lets start running the Post Office and the goverment as a business. If they don't make a profit. FIRE some people,,CUT cost, Or CLOSE it down. With the internet, smartphones, tablets. I really don't see a need for the Post Office. If I ran my company like the post office, I would be out of …   more ›

The Virtual Life

'Tis the Season for the Good Old Fashioned Post Office

By sending a real holiday card with a real stamp metro St. Louis residents can support local artists and charities--and maybe even give the flagging U.S. Postal Service a boost.

There's a Stamps.com commercial that makes this bold assertion: "There's nothing worse than standing in line at the post office." Really? It's this kind of statement that may be contributing to the U.S. Postal Service's financial and operational woes. Stamps.com and other online postage vendors would have us believe that printing postage at home is the next best thing to the Internet.  And there's another commercial from Stamps.com; in which the prospect of a post office run strikes a nameless fear into the hearts of office workers. (Not to be left out of the online retail game, the U.S. Postal Service sells a wide range of postage and other items on its website). A reassuring routine Many of my activities take place in the virtual life: …

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The Virtual Life

'Tis the Season for the Good Old Fashioned Post Office

By sending a real holiday card with a real stamp metro St. Louis residents can support local artists and charities--and maybe even give the flagging U.S. Postal Service a boost.

There's a Stamps.com commercial that makes this bold assertion: "There's nothing worse than standing in line at the post office." Really? It's this kind of statement that may be contributing to the U.S. Postal Service's financial and operational woes. Stamps.com and other online postage vendors would have us believe that printing postage at home is the next best thing to the Internet.  And there's another commercial from Stamps.com; in which the prospect of a post office run strikes a nameless fear into the hearts of office workers. (Not to be left out of the online retail game, the U.S. Postal Service sells a wide range of postage and other items on its website). A reassuring routine Many of my activities take place in the virtual life: …

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Automated Postal Centers Available Around the Clock

Post office lobbies are closed for Memorial Day.

United States Postal Service retail counters are closed today for Memorial Day, and there will be no mail delivery, caller service or post office box service. Services will resume on Tuesday. Customers who wish to purchase stamps, mail packages, or ship urgent letters or packages on Monday can use an Automated Postal Center. The centers, which look like a bank ATM and are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, accept credit or debit cards only. They can handle most of the typical post office transactions such as weighing packages and dispensing postage for Express, Priority, First-Class and Parcel Post mail. You can find APCs at the following locations in St. Charles County:

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Automated Postal Centers Available Around the Clock

Post office lobbies will be closed Monday for Memorial Day.

United States Postal Service retail counters will be closed on Monday, May 30, 2011 for Memorial Day and there will be no mail delivery, caller service or post office box service. Services will resume on Tuesday, May 31. Customers who wish to purchase stamps, mail packages, or ship urgent letters or packages on May 30 can use an Automated Postal Center. ADCs, which look like a bank ATM and are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, accept credit or debit cards only. They can handle most of the typical post-office transactions such as weighing packages and dispensing postage for Express, Priority, First-Class and Parcel Post mail. You can find APCs at the following locations in St. Charles County:

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Tax Deadline Is Extended Until Monday

The usual April 15 filing deadline is pushed back this year.

The familiar April 15 deadline for filing federal and state tax returns is three days later this year thanks to a little-known holiday celebrated in the District of Columbia called Emancipation Day. It marks the day President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act in 1862, which freed about 3,100 slaves in the district. Normally, the holiday is recognized on April 16, but when it falls on a Saturday, like this year, it is observed the preceding Friday. Under the tax law, District of Columbia holidays are considered federal holidays, which prompted the IRS to move the deadline to April 18. The Internal Revenue Service estimates that 20 to 25 percent of all taxpayers file wait to file until the last two weeks of tax season …

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Taxpayers Get an Extra Weekend to Prepare Returns with Extended Filing Deadline

With fewer people filing paper returns, local post offices will maintain regular business hours on April 18.

The familiar April 15 deadline for filing federal and state tax returns is three days later this year thanks to a little-known holiday celebrated in the District of Columbia called Emancipation Day. It marks the day President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act in 1862, which freed about 3,100 slaves in the district. Normally, the holiday is recognized on April 16, but when it falls on a Saturday, like this year, it is observed the preceding Friday. Under the tax law, District of Columbia holidays are considered federal holidays, which prompted the IRS to move the deadline to April 18. Lake Saint Louis Patch contacted J.C. Herren Co. in Lake Saint Louis to ask about the extended deadline's affect on business. Owner John…

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Presidents Day Closings

Federal holiday means closing of government offices.

 The following are closed today:  The following are open today:  Other businesses: Open at the owner’s discretion.

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