The U.S. attorney for the northern district of Mississippi and the head of the FBI's Mississippi office have announced charges filed against Everett Dutschke for attempting to send Ricin laced letters to politicians. Dutschke is connected to Kevin Curtis who just had similar charges dropped against him a few days ago.
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The U.S. Postal Service has said that it has stopped pushing to end its Saturday delivery service in order to close budget shortfalls because congress couldn't pass legislation.
The Postal Service is a branch of the federal government but it run like a private corporation without any taxpayer money.
In the past, the USPS operated at a profit, but as the internet boomed as well as digital signatures and new security methods, along with coupon and spam mail, the Post Office began loosing money and now operates with $15 billion in debt hanging over its head.
According to the U.S. Postal Service, it is about to default on a required $5.5 billion payment, and will likely miss another $5.6 billion payment at the end of September. Postal spokesman Dave Partenheimer said "Without congressional action, we will default on both payments."
Congress is apparently willing to allow the postal service to default, with the House of Representatives saying they are not going to take up any action to deal with the problem until the fall at the soonest.
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The United State Postal Service has announced it is enacting cuts to service and other operations in an effort to save $3 billion. It said it is taking this step because Congress has failed to intervene with a rescue package.
The US Postal Service is a part of the federal government, but is supposed to be fully self supporting, and has been in years past.