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Iconic NASA Webb Telescope Images Featured in New U.S. Postal Service Stamps

The U.S. Postal Service issued a Priority Mail stamp Jan. 22, 2024, featuring an image of the Pillars of Creation from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Greg Breeding, an art director for the U.S. Postal Service, designed the stamp with an image provided by NASA, ESA, CSA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Credit: U.S. Postal ServiceThe images were taken by Webb’s two instruments, including MIRI, which was built and managed through launch by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.The U.S. Postal Service has issued two…

US Postal Service rolls out first EV charging stations

The US Postal Service showed off its first EV charging stations at an event in Atlanta yesterday, with hundreds of new sorting and delivery centers set to open around the country this year. It’s all part of the $40 billion plan to upgrade its service while assembling one of the county’s largest EV fleets, with more than 66,000 delivery vehicles in service. “The work USPS is doing to electrify those vehicles is making EVs commonplace on every road and street in our country, while reducing air…

Just Like Heaven festival lineup: Postal Service headlines

The Postal Service will headline May’s Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena, organizers announced Monday, marking a quick return to Southern California for the influential electro-pop group that brought its reunion tour to the Hollywood Bowl for a three-night stand in October.Other acts on the bill for the one-day fest, set to take place May 18 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl, include Phoenix, Death Cab for Cutie, the War on Drugs, Miike Snow, Passion Pit and Alvvays.Formed in the early 2000s by Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard…

The US Postal Service’s new EV chargers are here

The US Postal Service debuted its first EV charging stations in Atlanta, Georgia, today, the first of many expected to be deployed at “hundreds” of new sorting and delivery centers this year. It’s a key step in the Postal Service’s plan to put together one of the nation’s biggest EV fleets, made up of more than 66,000 delivery vehicles. “The work USPS is doing to electrify those vehicles is making EVs commonplace on every road and street in our country,” John Podesta, senior advisor to the president for clean energy…

Postal Service, Death Cab for Cute, and More

Just Like Heaven is returning for the fourth annual festival in May. Both the Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie, two groups led by Ben Gibbard, will perform during the one-day event on Saturday, May 18. Other artists scheduled to perform include Phoenix, The War on Drugs, Miike Snow, Passion Pit, Alvvays, Two Door Cinema Club, Phantogram, Metric, Gossip, Tegan and Sara, Washed Out, and many more. A Club Called Rhonda, a pansexual dance party that began as a monthly event in LA’s Silver Lake neighborhood,…

Heat-Related Death of Postal Worker Leads to Controversial Fine

January 2, 20242 min readOSHA says the U.S. Postal Service failed to teach mail carriers about heat safetyBy Ariel Wittenberg & E&E NewsA postal worker delivers mail and packages in downtown Santa Fe New Mexico. CLIMATEWIRE | Federal regulators are fining the U.S. Postal Service over its failure to protect workers from heat after a letter carrier died of heat stroke in Dallas this past June.Eugene Gates collapsed while delivering mail on June 20, a day when the National Weather Service had issued an excessive heat

The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie Extend Tour to 2024

Ben Gibbard‘s double-duty shift is continuing into the new year. On Thursday, the bands he fronts — The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie — announced that they have extended their co-headlining tour in the new year. The two bands performed the albums they released in 2003 — Death Cab’s Transatlanticism and the Postal Service’s influential Give Up — on each tour date. They’ll do the same on the new dates. The tour will commence on April 23 in Atlanta, before stopping in cities such as Nashville, Columbus,…

U.S. Postal Service Wants to Wrest Business From UPS, FedEx

USPS’s rebranded Ground Advantage offering aims to move packages under 70 pounds across the country at a cheaper price than rivals. USPS’s rebranded Ground Advantage offering aims to move packages under 70 pounds across the country at a cheaper price than rivals. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their…

An AI-Powered Analysis of our Postal Service Through Tweets | by John Adeojo | Mar, 2023

Deciphering Customer Voices with AIDelving into Machine Learning, Topic Modeling, and Sentiment Analysis to Uncover Valuable Customer PerspectivesImage by Author: AI generated sentiment and topic for #royalmailMy partner and I usually experience an excellent postal service. Most of the time letters arrive to our home un-opened and delivered in a timely fashion. That’s why when our post didn’t arrive for a few weeks we thought it was quite strange. After some diligent web searching, we discovered the most likely cause to…

Ford wins US Postal Service contract to supply 9,250 E-Transits as electric mail trucks

The US Postal Service will purchase 9,250 off-the-shelf Ford E-Transits in its push to move towards electric delivery vehicles, with deliveries beginning at the end of this year. USPS has recently been flirting with electrification as it plans to replace its 30+ year-old fleet of Grumman LLVs. The bidding process took several years, and originally the contract was offered to Oshkosh, a defense contractor, with a commitment to purchase a measly 10% electric vehicles. The other 90% would be…