#mail service

[onlytiktoks]

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs

[lifearoundtheworld]

Postboxes Around the World

Canada

In Canada, there are two main types of postboxes: red ones that are for sending mail, and silver ones for receiving mail.

The silver ones aren't used by everyone, and serve a bit like a PO box but with a cubby in a silver box near your house instead of at the post office. They're known as community boxes.

[vintagepromotions]

'Air France - airmail parcels just as fast as a letter by plane'

Air France poster advertising airmail services (1958). Artwork by Jean Colin.

[kpop-bbg]

[thehalfwaypost]

People are upset with Republicans for trying to ruin the postal service, but take a moment to imagine how existentially the GOP would oppose the idea if it were proposed today that the government should deliver everyone's mail.

https://halfwaypost.com

[intelligentchristianlady]

New postmaster general moves to slow deliveries—even as states gear up vote-by-mail efforts

America's conservatives want to kill off your post office. This is not exactly new news, but under Donald Trump's feckless and bumbling rule, they are coming closer than ever to doing it. Trump's new postmaster general, campaign donor rich-guy Louis...

I’m linking to Daily Kos because the original article is in the Washington Post, behind a paywall.

[zonarapida]

de Havilland Airmail Plane and Mail Truck por Smithsonian Institution Por Flickr: Description: This is an image of a de Havilland airmail plane parked on unidentified airfield next to a U.S. mail truck. Creator/Photographer: E.J. Pearson Medium: Black and white photographic print Culture: American Geography: USA Date: 1922 Collection: U.S. Airmail Service Repository: National Postal Museum Accession number: A.2006-10 Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194262 View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution.