Eh, it's a little-known fact that if you lost as much money as the Post Office loses in a day, the coins would fill all the couches in America -- that ever existed. It's true, Normy.Is it possible to miss something you never had? That's a question Elaine Zamora is pondering right about now. Not quite a year ago, SF Weekly reported on how the postal service's district manager gleefully announced via press release "The community asked us to consider upgrading the Civic Center Post Office to a 'ful
Your powers are weak, old manAs anticipated, San Francisco's City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee yesterday approved of a proposed "Do Not Mail" registry that would, in theory, spare city dwellers from the acres of junk mail that clog our post boxes yearly. And, when you look at the jaw-dropping statistics presented by the antipaper-waste organization ForestEthics, it's hard to argue otherwise. Will Craven, a San Francisco spokesman for the organization -- which penned the legis
Oh, you're getting sued!You don't have to be an FBI profiler to figure out that dumping piles of mail on the floor in the city's SRO hotels -- where many people are receiving assistance checks via the mail -- is nearly tantamount to the postman shouting "Hey, steal this!" as he leaves the building. To wit, the city passed the SRO mailbox ordinance in 2006, and the state followed suit in '07. One hangup though: The U.S. Postal Service has declared that "fiscal shortages" compel them to cease deli
You're sued, palIn an extremely fitting move, City Attorney Dennis Herrera last month sent a letter to the local U.S. Attorney's office -- informing them of his threat to sue the post office. His follow-through today came not via post but the more traditional venue of a press conference. Herrera today announced he has filed a federal suit against the post office for letter carriers' failure to deliver mail to the individual post boxes of SRO tenants; local policy is still to toss the mail in a p
The Smoking GunA few years ago, The Smoking Gun discovered that you could take advantage of custom stamp services and mail your letters affixed with postage depicting the young Unabomber or tyrannical dictators. Now a class action suit in San Francisco district court ponders something more -- are you being ripped off while ordering your Ted Kaczynski postage? The suit, filed last week by New Yorker Karen Spector, alleges that Redwood City's Zazzle.com illegally bilked their customers out o
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