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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 9 AND THEREAFTER - In this Feb. 20, 2014 photo, U.S. Postal Service letter carrier Gary Keist walks through deep snow during his route Normal, Ill. Keist, 56, began as a letter carrier in 1978 and said this winter is the worst he's ever worked because of the consistent pattern of snowfalls followed by bitterly cold temperatures with little or no break. (AP Photo/The Pantagraph, Steve Smedley)

Slow mail delivery for Boston, investigation finds

The Washington Times

**EDS NOTE, GRAPHIC CONTENT**Dancers perform at Mons Venus down the street from Raymond James Stadium, site of Sunday's NFL Super Bowl XLIII football game, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009 in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Fed’s online porn surfing opens government computers to viruses

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Feb. 7, 2013, file photo shows packages waiting to be sorted in a Post Office in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Retirements could leave Postal Service with gaps in leadership, watchdog warns

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Post office may have sold off valuable art, properties

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Officials: Iowa law may void some absentee ballots

Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Postal workers’ benefits aren’t free

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union poses for a photo at their Washington headquarters, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agency’s unions. The new outlets are staffed by Staples employees, not postal workers, and labor officials say that move replaces good-paying union jobs with low-wage, nonunion workers. &quot;It's a direct assault on our jobs and on public postal services,&quot; said Mark Dimondstein, president of the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Unions angered by Postal Service’s Staples outlets

By SAM HANANEL - Associated Press

Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union poses for a photo at their Washington headquarters, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agency’s unions. The new outlets are staffed by Staples employees, not postal workers, and labor officials say that move replaces good-paying union jobs with low-wage, nonunion workers. &quot;It's a direct assault on our jobs and on public postal services,&quot; said Mark Dimondstein, president of the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Postal Service, union wrangle over Staples outlets

By SAM HANANEL - Associated Press

** FILE ** This Feb. 7, 2013, file photo shows packages waiting to be sorted in a Post Office in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

First-class stamps to cost 49 cents as of Jan. 26

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

**FILE** Packages wait to be sorted in a Post Office in Atlanta on Feb. 7, 2013, as U.S. Postal Service carrier Michael McDonald gathers mail to load into his truck before making his delivery run. (Associated Press)

IG: Postal Service jettisoned valuable equipment

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

**FILE** Fireworks explode over the New York-New York, a $460 million hotel & casino in Las Vegas, on Jan. 2, 1997. (Associated Press)

HURT: Postal Service misses address by a whole continent

By Charles Hurt

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe gestures as he speaks during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, in Washington. According to Donahoe, the Postal Service may need an emergency rate increase to stay afloat. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Postmaster: USPS is a ‘financial disaster’; emergency rate hike may be needed

By Andrew Miga - Associated Press

Last month, the Atlantic Council awarded Colombian rock musician Juanes with a Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership Award for his work to promote peace and social change through music and culture.

Get Out: The week’s pocket picks in D.C.

By Samantha Sault - Special to the Washington Times

Postal exec taps former associate for no-bid pact

By Jim McElhatton