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Have you mistakenly mailed a banned or non-mailable item?

The historical federal building in downtown Alpena was once a post office and is now an elegant residence. On the market for $3M, the possibilities are endless!

A postal truck in Wake Forest, North Carolina went up in flames last week while on its route.

The Post Office is expected to make the official announcement today that it plans to discontinue Saturday delivery.

This woman took her job seriously!

In January 2012, the Post Office will bring more than just holiday bills. It will cost a penny more to mail those bills beginning on January 22nd, as the cash-strapped US Post Office has announced a rate increase which will bring the cost of first class mail to 45 cents.

Tiger Woods and Lady Gaga are now eligible to be depicted on a stamp. (Although not together.) As the US Post Office considers options such as eliminating Saturday delivery, and even closing facilities such as Flint's downtown branch, it's taking measures to hopefully engage young people with snail mail. The USPS announced yesterday it plans to toss out the rule that stamps only honor dead people.

A few months ago we learned that several post offices could close due to budget problems, including some around the area. Now they're saying they need to make some major changes or else they could be out of business by the end of next summer. One idea they're looking into is stopping overnight delivery and shutting down processing sites, which means 35,000 jobs would be lost.

The other day, The United States Post Office announced they were closing offices including 12 in Michigan and others were going to be reviewed for potential closures down the road. One being looked at is the downtown Flint location and many leaders and businesses are speaking out against it.

Updating a story published earlier, twelve Michigan Post Office branches will be on the chopping block, according to Click on Detroit. Although no Flint-area branches are slated for closure at this time, the downtown Flint Post Office is on the list of 3,653 branches nationwide that are being studied. 62 in Michigan are being considered. Hit the jump to see the list.

Postal officials say they have no choice, as the popularity of electronic bill payment and communication has sharply cut into revenue. Most of the locations on the yet-to-be-released list are in rural areas.

This caught my eye because my dad was a mailman for about 100 years.  Luckily, he never did anything like this! What's funny about this video isn't just the fact that the mailman gets run over by his own mail truck after exiting the vehicle and leaving it in reverse.