16 Iconic Ansel Adams Photos to Be Featured in Set of USPS Stamps

16 Iconic Ansel Adams Photos to Be Featured in Set of USPS Stamps

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is set to release a series of 16 Forever Stamps that feature the timeless work of photographer Ansel Adams this spring. Originally revealed last winter, the USPS announced this week that the series will debut on May 15. Linns reports that the stamps will be released at an opening-day … Read more

NASA and Postal Service Team Up for Commemorative Webb Photo Stamps

NASA and Postal Service Team Up for Commemorative Webb Photo Stamps

NASA and the United States Postal Service (USPS) have teamed up on two new Priority Mail stamps that celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST/Webb). The stamps were issued this week, and one highlights an image from the Carina Nebula, while the second stamp shows the Pillars of Creation as captured by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument … Read more

Mail carrier robbed of postal keys in Palo Alto

Mail carrier robbed of postal keys in Palo Alto

PALO ALTO – Two men robbed a United States Postal Service mail carrier of her postal keys and cell phone Wednesday afternoon in Palo Alto, police said. The victim called police just before 2 p.m. to report she had been robbed roughly 10 minutes earlier in the 3400 block of Alma Street, the Palo Alto … Read more

Delivering mail in San Francisco and Oakland is now a dangerous job

Delivering mail in San Francisco and Oakland is now a dangerous job

A United States Postal Service worker unloads packages in Chicago on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020.  Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg Edward Fletcher, a letter carrier who’s worked for the United States Postal Service since 1985, has been dealing with an unusual problem — or, rather, it used to be unusual. Ever since the world shut down in 2020, thieves armed … Read more