From USPS News Link:

>USPS has added PayPal as a payment option on its Click-N-Ship application, joining credit cards and Bill Me Later.

PayPal is highly secure, allowing customers to pay without sharing financial information, and provides flexible payment options — including PayPal account balances, bank accounts, credit cards and promotional financing.

“Our customers have told us they would like more payment options when shipping online, and that’s why we’re excited to announce we’re now using PayPal,” said Kelly Sigmon, VP, Channel Access.

Customers can select PayPal as their payment choice when checking out after completing a shipping label.

The addition of PayPal is one of several enhancements to Click-N-Ship and part of a broader redesign of usps.com intended to make online shipping and shopping more flexible and convenient for customers.

The Postal Service’s announcement last Thursday regarding its modified, two-phase plan to consolidate its mail processing network, coupled with its May 9 POStPlan to keep rural post offices open (but with limited operating hours), is likely to move the House of Representatives closer to bringing postal legislation to the floor some time in June.  Until now, House Republican leaders have been unable to find enough votes within their own party to assure passage of the controversial Issa-Ross postal legislation, H.R. 2309.

Closures of post offices and mail processing plants are radioactive issues for Washington lawmakers in an election year, with thousands of jobs and significant local interests in jeopardy.  But the Postal Service’s recent announcements, significantly downsizing its original plans, have softened the breadth and negative political impact of closures.  Far less facilities will be immediately closed than the Postal Service originally announced.  Many lawmakers, particularly Republicans with rural districts, are breathing a sigh of relief that their post offices will remain open, albeit with reduced operating hours.  Significant numbers of House Members and Senators are similarly relieved that mail processing plants in their districts and states are not among the 40 mail processing plants that will be closed between now and early next year, or the additional 89 to come next year, after the November election.

These events are likely to give Republican House leaders enough confidence to bring a modified version of the Issa-Ross postal  legislation, H.R. 2309, to the floor next month.  How much the Issa-Ross measure will be modified still remains uncertain.  If the House acts and approves a postal measure next month, House and Senate negotiators potentially could iron out the differences between their bills over the summer, opening the way for Congressional approval of a final postal reform measure by early October, before the start of the election recess.  A lot of very troubling questions yet remain, however.

The Issa-Ross bill and the Senate-approved measure are dramatically different in their fundamental views of the Postal Service itself and what is necessary to put the troubled enterprise back on its feet.  Finding compromise could be especially difficult for House and Senate conferees, especially in the ramp-up to the November elections, when a failing government institution like the Postal Service could become a popular target for many Republicans.

In the meantime, the clock toward financial armageddon for the Postal Service continues to tick.  Without Congressional intervention, the Postal Service will be unable to make the twin $5.5 billion retiree health prefunding payments for 2011 and 2012 that are due in early August and late September.  Even worse, the Postal Service may run out of cash and find itself unable to meet its payroll by later this fall.

It is critical that the House of Representatives act immediately and pass sensible postal reform legislation.  NAPS supports the Senate-approved bill and is urging its members to contact their House lawmakers to ask them to support the Senate bill.  SEND THAT MESSAGE TO YOUR HOUSE LAWMAKER TODAY BY CLICKING HERE.

A rash of mailbox break-ins over the weekend at Boulder’s downtown post office has led to a significant reduction in the number of hours residents can retrieve their mail, temporarily knocking out late night and Sunday access to the building’s lobby.

During the week, the lobby will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. It was open 24 hours a day.

Lance Bieber, a Boulder resident who has kept a box at the post office since 1976, said the limited access is going to make life tough on people like him who work during the day.

Read more: Mailbox break-ins at downtown Boulder post office lead to curtailed hours – Boulder Daily Camera.

DENVER – A mail carrier and a bystander were wounded Monday morning when they were attacked by two dogs in Denver’s West Highland neighborhood.

According to Denver Animal Control, the U.S. Postal Service employee was delivering mail to a home on West 34th Ave. at Utica Street at about 10 a.m. when she was knocked down and bit by a chow mix and a malamute mix which escaped from the home through screen door.

The dogs were eventually corralled.

Gloria Kruse was rushed to Denver Health Medical Center for treatment of her wounds, which were not considered to be life-threatening.

via Postal carrier attacked by dogs; Owner talks with FOX31 | KDVR.com is the website for KDVR Television, FOX 31 News in Denver, Colorado.