The Postal Service had a net loss of more than a billion dollars in the third quarter of the fiscal year, the agency said Wednesday.

The Postal Service has ended a long tradition in which mail delivered to Maine’s small offshore Sutton Island by a private ferry service was left in a specially marked trash can on the island’s...

More letters, cards, bill payments and other first-class mail items are getting to their destinations on time than ever before, the Postal Service said Thursday.National on-time performance scores for the delivery of first-class mail hit all-time...

The Postal Service on Monday announced a reorganization that officials expect to streamline agency operations.The change will create two “focal points” for the agency, one to deal with shipping and mailing services and the other to work...

Soccer moms and commuters aren’t the only ones feeling the bite of rising fuel costs _ every time the price of gasoline goes up a penny it costs the Postal Service $8 million.”We are definitely feeling the pressure,” Deputy...

The cost of mailing a letter goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday, the latest in what are expected to be annual price adjustments by the Postal Service.A new law regulating the post office makes it easier to raise rates as long as the agency...

The cost of mailing a letter goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday, the latest in what are expected to be annual price adjustments by the Postal Service.A new law regulating the post office makes it easier to raise rates as long as the agency...

Declining mail volume and rising fuel prices resulted in a $707 million loss for the Postal Service in the quarter that wrapped up March 31.For the quarter, the agency handled 51.3 billion pieces of mail, a decline of 3.3 percent from the same...