U.S. Postal Service

Historic Berkeley Post Office Still Not Officially Up for Sale, But Slowly Getting There

Days may be numbered for the ornate, 99-year-old downtown Berkeley post office. In June, the United States Postal Service announced that the government planned to sell the Allston Way building, as part of its national budget-cutting strategy. More than 200 "consolidations" are scheduled over the nex ... More >>

Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD

Hate Mail: A Mailman's Revenge Shows Workers Still "Go Postal"

Nine Bay Area Artisans Who Make Etsy Worthwhile

Etsy is one-stop shopping at its weirdest. If your wish list includes trolls made out of Play-Doh, shabby-chic furniture, beads, caramel corn, custom-sewn underwear, vegan lip balm, and a wedding dress, Etsy has you covered. The website allows anyone to upload their handiwork and offer it for sale, ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Hires Famous S.F. Attorney, New USPS Sponsorship Details Emerge

It's all about who owned what and when.​Lance Armstrong has added two more San Francisco attorneys to his defense team to help ward off possible charges that he was doping while cycling the Tour de France. Additionally, SF Weekly has more details on the 1996-2004 U.S. Postal Service cycling t ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Doping Story Points Toward S.F. Company

It's about the EPO.​CBS' 60 Minutes shook the sporting world Sunday with extraordinary doping accusations involving the seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. According to Armstrong's former teammate Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong dosed his own teammates post-race with droppers-full of st ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Case Takes BALCO Investigator Jeff Novitzky To France

Look what you've done!! I'm melting, melting. ​Jeff Novitzky, the USDA investigator famed for pursuing Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroids case, was in Lyon, France this week chasing evidence that cycling star Lance Armstrong doped in violation of multimillion dollar sponsorship agreements with the ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Hires Bill Clinton Whitewater Attorney Mark Fabiani

Matt SmithI'd better have someone look after that pain in my ass...​Lance Armstrong has further lawyered up in the face of possible federal doping allegations by adding former Bill Clinton Whitewater counsel Mark Fabiani to his burgeoning legal team. Fabiani specializes in steering scandal-plagued ... More >>

Levi Leipheimer, Bay Area Cyclist, Hit with Doping Allegation By Former Team Manager

Cyclist Levi Leipheimer must pedal out of trouble​Cycling's reputation as a sport dirtier than dirt got a shot in the arm today with allegations by a former team manager that Bay Area cyclist Levi Leipheimer was doping during the 2005 Tour de France. Hans-Michael Holczer, the former boss of the Ge ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Lawyers Up; Doper Teammate Tyler Hamilton Spills to Feds

What's in the cup, Lance? ​The criminal investigation into the U.S. Postal Service-sponsored team of cycling champion Lance Armstrong took a vast leap forward today with reports that former teammate Tyler Hamilton has agreed to speak with federal investigators. Hamilton, an Olympic gold medal ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Denies Link to Doping-Tied Company -- Registered to Armstrong Address

Matt Smith illustrationDoping Investigation Gaining on Armstrong​Lance Armstrong today distanced himself from a federal doping fraud investigation by claiming he had no ties to the San Francisco company set up to own and manage the U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team, the New York Times reports.  ... More >>

Interpol, World Anti-Doping Agency Launch Investigations of Lance Armstrong

No, no, not that way. This way...​At this point, who isn't investigating Lance Armstrong? The World Anti-Doping Agency has joined the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Attorney's office to look into allegations that directors of Armstrong's former U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team conducted ... More >>

Pal's Takeaway to Open Saturdays

John BirdsallPal's pulled pork.​The U.S. Postal Service wants to make it impossible for you to get a Netflix copy of New Moon delivered on a Saturday, but on 24th Street in the Mission, you'll soon be able to get house-cured Kobe pastrami on rye. Starting July 17, the sandwich guys at Pal's Ta ... More >>

Wall Street Journal Planning Lance Armstrong Doping Bombshell

Might this affect Lance's concentration?​The Wall Street Journal, which for a week has been rumored to be preparing a Game of Shadows-style story detailing doping allegations against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, announced in Friday's paper that it plans to release just such ... More >>

Floyd Landis doping scandal: The S.F. connection

Your E-Filed Taxes Saved IRS $195M (and Counting). But Post Office Not Thrilled.

​Yesterday we reported that nearly eight of every 10 tax forms received by the IRS by early April was sent electronically. This put members of the United States Postal Service in the position of another blue-uniformed figure with little to do: The Maytag repairman. With the late-evening Tax Night ... More >>

Warning, Procrastinator: Almost No Post Offices Open Until Midnight on Tax Day

He can't save you now, tax procrastinator...​IRS statistics reveal 80 percent of returns have been e-filed this year. In the good old days, folks who'd left their taxes until on or about April 15 could count on hordes of postal workers swarming the streets to grab the tax forms out of their hands ... More >>

'Heroic' 511 Among Top-10 Great Government Web Sites

511 is the He-Man of websites​Earlier today, Government Computer News named San Francisco's 511 transit page, www.transit.511.org, one of the top-10 great government websites. And not only that, but 511 was also designated fuckin' "heroic."  "Although a number of cities ... More >>

For its 35th anniversary, Camerawork goes postal

Red-Letter Day: City Attorney Follows Through on Threat to Sue Post Office

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 tod ... More >>

Special Delivery: City Attorney Says He'll Sue U.S. Postal Service for Stiffing SRO Tenants

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. ... More >>

Will Proposed S.F. Anti-Junk Mail Measure Be Death Knell of Post Office? Environmental Group Says USPS Is Already Dead.

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 ... More >>

Economic Magic: USPS Makes Tenderloin's 'Full-Service Post Office' Disappear

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 quit ... More >>

Postal employees not happy about working in the Tenderloin

"Vicious" six-pound dog scares the shit out of mailman in the Sunset

R2D2 -- It IS You!

Stealth Dollars

Questionable political donations are flowing into the city's most controversial political race

Just Duet

A novel slow jam connects Joshua Klipp's past and present

Dopey Bid

A close, unflattering look at San Francisco's prospective Olympic Games dance partner

Western Confusion

With the help of foreign consulates, Western Union poses as a quasi-governmental banking service and rakes in millions from immigrants

This Is Your Sport Off Drugs

If only baseball would deal with the drug problem instead of cowering in fear

Doping Scandal

Only this one has to do with a doctor who tried to stop athletes from using performance-enhancing drugs

Legal Complications on Steroids

If Lance Armstrong were found to have been on drugs, and his S.F. handlers knew it, sponsors could demand their money back, and perhaps change sports in the U.S. forever

Tour de Farce

Lance Armstrong, Thom Weisel, and questions about anti-doping efforts in American cycling

San Francisco Dog Court

Due process, under the law, for every canine

Reason to Question

Is the Bay Guardian's lawsuit against SF Weekly connected to Bruce B. Brugmann's unfortunate business judgments?

Yo Soy Centroamericano

Why vote Kerry? Exhibit No. 1: George W. Bush has shamelessly hired the dangerous figures behind the Iran-Contra Affair into senior diplomatic posts.

Under the Gun

Why the Army thinks a 30-year-old college-educated California bull rider will help it recruit soldiers during wartime

A Question of Risk

Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

Running on Empty

Detroit automakers have spent millions attempting to unplug California's effort to put electric cars on the road. And so far, Detroit's succeeding.

Mental Cruelty

Michael Wise and Susan Owsley are recovering schizophrenics who got the right kind of help, and got off the street.The mayor's secret budget cuts will make sure that doesn't happen anymore.

Location, Location, Location

Zax

Jamba Liar

One of California's best Cajun chefs goes on the lam after a Bay Area con game is busted

Night Crawler

Savage Love

By Any Other Name

Fuck ducks bucks for yuks

Savage Love

Unappointed Rounds

Sophisticated thieves using stolen keys rifle mail deliveries in search of -- your identity!

Cyperpornocopia

Milpitas residents Carleen and Robert Thomas found a lucrative way to sell the hardest of hardcorepornography to smut fans all over the country: by computer bulletin board. Then their little Silicon Valley startup attracted the interest of a U.S. Postal S