Design for the Real World: Postage Stamp
Graphic designer Steven Heller explains how these tiny, utilitarian stickers became miniature displays of popular culture.
View ArticleDesign for the Real World: Envelope
The journalist and designer Georgina Keenan opens up something we all used a lot more back before email — the envelope. Produced by Rob Weisberg.
View ArticleUSPS Woes May Bring End to Saturday Delivery
Receiving mail on Saturdays could soon be a thing of the past, if the United States Postal Service has its way. The organization, which has been struggling in the wake of an extreme dip in business,...
View ArticleRodentologist
State Senator Bill Perkins has a mailer seeking input about the rat problem in upper Manhattan. He also uses it to tout his “fight to eradicate rodents from our community.”My favorite line:“As a result...
View ArticleNew Yorkers Fight Possible Post Office Closures
Thirty-four post offices in New York City are among those that could face closure under a new plan by the U.S. Postal Service to monitor 3,653 post offices nationwide to decide if they should be...
View ArticlePostmaster General Patrick Donahoe on Saving the USPS
In a Senate hearing yesterday, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe called for Congress to take action to help the U.S. Postal Service pay its bills and avoid defaulting. In his testimony, Donahoe...
View ArticleOpinion: A Modest Proposal - Occupy the Bank's Mailboxes
I'm a big fan of people coming up with ways that regular people can collectively work on social or political problems without any sort of government assistance. There is just something I don't like...
View ArticlePostal Service Seeks Changes to First-Class Mail Delivery
It may take a bit longer for your first-class mail to reach its destination.The U.S. Postal Service is proposing a change to first-class mail service. Under the proposal, delivery could take up to two...
View ArticlePostal Service Ending Next-Day Delivery
If you haven't sent out your Christmas cards yet, you might want to get on it, quick. Snail mail just got slower. The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service announced Monday that it's going to end next-day...
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Transportation Nation Jingle: World Premiere!
It's not often that Transportation Nation receives musical fan email. We're more used to getting missives from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics or press releases from elected officials. (Or...
View ArticleMagazines Contend with End of Saturday Mail Delivery
The U.S. Postal Service’s decision to suspend Saturday delivery is unwelcomed news for the struggling magazine industry. The glossies tend to arrive at the start of the weekend, when readers have more...
View ArticleThe Postal Service Used to Make Multiple Deliveries Per Day
The Post Master General says that he has no choice but to cut Saturday mail delivery given the billions of dollars of debt in which the organization finds itself.But there was a time when the Postal...
View ArticleJohnny Cash, Forever; Wynter Gordon; Frank Ocean's Grammys Debut
In this episode: The US Postal Service recently announced the end of Saturday mail delivery – but their commemorative stamp program carries on. We talk with the designer of a recently announced Johnny...
View ArticleDigital Mail vs U.S. Postal Service
This plan went way beyond email. The small startup Outbox had done its homework on the role mail plays in our lives, on the value people place on a letter and a catalog, and they imagined what mail...
View ArticleSnap #808 - Boxed In
On the next all-NEW Snap..."Boxed In." When you feel the walls coming closer and closer, where do you go? Where do you hide?
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Postal Service may get more freedom to raise stamp prices
U.S. Postal Service (USPS) crates sit on the floor at the Brookland Post Office in Washington, D.C., U.S. Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — It may be time to stock up on...
View ArticleBreak bad habits and you’ll deliver profits
No amount of huddles will crack Royal Mail’s rubber band problem, says the FT's Lucy Kellaway No amount of huddles will crack Royal Mail’s rubber band problem, says the FT's Lucy Kellaway
View ArticleA Voicemail Valentine
Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time. And a surprising trend began. People started sending...
View Article"They Rely On Me": An Update From A USPS Mail Carrier
The United States Postal Service has been in the news a lot in the past week, as national anxiety rises about the upcoming presidential election, mail-in ballots, and the Postmaster General's recent...
View ArticleWhat's Going on With USPS?
U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney (D, NY-12) talks about her legislation the House will be voting on this weekend that aims to prevent further changes to the USPS during the pandemic, previews the...
View ArticleSorting Out The Junk Mail
The United States Postal Service is bound to be subject to endless investigative journalism in the coming months, much of it undertaken with the implicit intention of protecting the upcoming election....
View ArticleYour Mail Delivery and Your Vote
US mail is experiencing delays, at least partially caused by changes the new postmaster general (a Trump donor) has put into place. Listeners call in to share how their mail delivery has been... and...
View Article244- The Revolutionary Post
Winifred Gallagher, author of How the Post Office Created America argues that the post office is not simply an inexpensive way to send a letter. The service was designed to unite a bunch of disparate...
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