The boxy mail truck familiar on American roads for more than two decades soon may be a thing of the past. The Postal Service is beginning the process of replacing some 180,000 of the trucks, a significant portion of its total ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 17, 2015
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The US Postal Service said Tuesday it would begin its first tests of self-driving trucks to deliver mail between two distribution centers in the southwest.
Hi Tech & Innovation
May 21, 2019
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The Supreme Court sided Monday with an Alabama technology company over the U.S. Postal Service in a patent dispute.
Business
Jun 10, 2019
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China's post office is hoping to boost business by allowing customers to send letters postmarked from space.
Space Exploration
Dec 2, 2011
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The Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by President Biden this month contains $3 billion to help the U.S. Postal Service decarbonize its mail-delivery fleet and shift to electric vehicles.
Environment
Aug 26, 2022
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Messenger bubbles produced by human cells can pick up bacterial products and deliver them to other cells, University of Connecticut researchers report in the Nov. 16 issue of Nature Cell Biology. The discovery may explain ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 27, 2023
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Wondering where your package is? Look up! Switzerland's postal service said Tuesday it had begun testing parcel deliveries by unmanned drones, although widespread use of the flying postmen is not likely to kick in for another ...
Engineering
Jul 7, 2015
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US President Donald Trump on Saturday resumed his attacks against online retailing giant Amazon and accused The Washington Post, owned by Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos, of lobbying for the company.
Business
Mar 31, 2018
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Amazon says it is teaming up with the U.S. Postal Service to deliver packages on Sundays.
Business
Nov 11, 2013
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NASA is celebrating a 29-cent Pluto-themed postage stamp stuck to the side of the New Horizons spacecraft that has traveled nearly 3.5 billion miles from Earth.
Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2016
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