we found the postal service was are receptive to working with us. beginning in late november 2001 with numerous meetings with the postal service. following those meetings in may 2003, the postal service sought permission from the postal rate commission t-test prs. approval is granted in september 2003 at the syndicate of october 2003. after two years of successful testing in october 2005, the postal service sought permission or prs to become a permanent class of mail. lef.. >>íy handled more than 50 million packages generating more than $120 million of revenue.ç mr. chairman 84 that opportunity to testify before you today. >> we will break with tradition normally i would ask the first round of questions but mr. lynch has the votes in another committee but i will allow him the and i will take my opportunities. >> fate you for your indulgence. in i thank the members for their help it has been interesting discourse but when i think about the next generation of the postal service i tend to think about switzerland. pitney bowes has the system that they w

money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange, hearing more trouble from the us postal service. what's happening? >> reporter: good morning, ukee, erika, the post office lost $2 billion this spring, which means it, won't be able to meet $6 billion payment pavement for its retiring fun. post offers actually brought in more money by increasing prices, still salaries, benefit costs are going up, and there has been big drop in people who use first class mail. that's big source of revenue for the post office. but, i guess they'll need more of those famous people on stamps. ukee, err dismay. >> how about that, hey, jill, bluejeans are considered a staple of american wardrobe. if your sales are down, thanks to new trend, what's that? >> yep, that's right, denim sales actually down 6% in the u.s. last year, that's according to the group, levis net profit dropped 76% in the last quarter, because of plummeting sales. and experts say thanks to new trend, called at the leisure, women wearing comfy yoga pants, or leggings, all day long, so one strategy to combat the dropping sales,

> and fans of the legendary singer janice joplin, know that her music will last forever, and the us postal service agrees. this week, she will be honored with a forever stamp the iconic finger will be featured in a colorful photo with her signature look sunglasses, and bangled bracelets. that 49 cents stamp will go on sale friday. just one week before the 45th anniversary of her performance at woodstock. ukee erika? >> how but that, 45 years? >> thank you jill. >>> right now 5:38. happening today, new jersey's assembly scheduled to vote on overhauling, measures would allow judges to keep those considered dangerous behind bars as they await trial. however, they would also be able to release low-level suspect even if they don't have money for bail. the senate has approved both measures. >>> ukee? >> hey birthday mr. president. president obama turns 53 today, in what's becoming annual birthday tradition the president kicked off his celebrations with a round of golf with some childhood friends recently. president got 18 holes before escaping to the maryland mountains, i understand he is back a

we found the postal service was very receptive to working with us. beginning in late november 2001 with numerous meetings with the postal service. following those meetings in may 2003, the postal service sought permission from the postal rate commission to test your wrist, approval was granted in september of '03 and testing begin in october of '03. after two years of successful testing in october 2005, the postal service sought permission for prs to become a permanent class of new. postal rate commission improve prs on about march 3, 2006. on the point we were able to implement a return solution in conjunction with prs program. our intelligence and post return service developed in collaboration with the postal service simplifies the return process by offering consumers prepaid returns, postal service pick up at their home, workplace or drop off any mailbox or post office. that is the our solution packages and into our system through postal service's fast retailing collection it would. we give consumers returning the product confidence their return wi

postal service, to make this event what it is today. we are honored to have with uss morning the chief postal inspector of the u.s. postal inspection service. guy petrill. he overseas all aspects of the postal service. you can have a seat. [laughter] hopefully that is my glitch of the day. the national headquarters office includes 18 field divisions, to service centers, and the national forensics laboratory. it is staffed by 700 police officers, and 600 support personnel. he serves as chairman of the universal postal union's postal security group. he oversaw all national security programs for the postal service. he is a native of west virginia. he grew up in new orleans. he joined a postal service in 1987. 1991, he became a postal inspector where he investigated internal and external mail theft. since that time, he has held a number of management positions in metropolitan areas. in 2008, he served as inspector in charge where he guided the postal service toward a risk and management analysis platform, and implemented numerous cost-effective and innovative solutions.

postal service this morning to make this event what it is today. and we're honored to have with us morning the chief postal inspector of the u.s. postal inspection service. inspector guy catrell. he was appointed the postal inspector of the u.s. postal inspection service in july 2010. he oversees all inspections of the postal service. you can have a seat. sorry. hopefully that's my glitch of the day. national headquarters offices have 18 field divisions and two service centers in the national forensics laboratory. about 700 postal police officers and 600 support personnel. he serves as chairman of the universal postal union, union's postal security group. prior to his appointment, served as deputy chief inspector at the national headquarters. he overall national security programs for the postal service. native of west virginia. he grew up in new orleans. he joined the postal service in 1987 when he became a letter carrier there. 1991, became a postal inspector to new orleans division where he investigated internal and external mail theft throughout louisiana and southern mississipp

. >> saving the postal service - can they deliver in this technological time. stay with us. >>> welcome back, you're watching al jazeera, live from doha, a reminder of the top stories. the european union is considering more sanctions against russia after accusing moscow of invading eastern ukraine. e.u. leaders will meet in brussels, and are expected to discuss ukraine's request. egypt's highest religious leader is expected to rule on a death sentence handed down to the religious leader of the muslim brotherhood. the sentence was given in june. the grand mufti rejected it once, but was asked to reconsider. >> the united nations is calling for the unconditional and immediate release of the 42 peacekeepers in the occupied golan heights. they've been taken hostage by syrian rebels and peacekeepers are trapped in the area. >> more on the breaking news story we reported earlier, and reports of a coup in ley so theo in southern -- lesotho in southern africa, let's speak to tania page who is in southern africa. what are you hearing? >> the latest information from witnesses on the

postal service this morning to make this event what it is today. and we're honored to have with uss morning the chief postal inspector of the u.s. postal inspection service. inspector guy catrell. he was appointed the postal inspector of the u.s. postal inspection service in july 2010. he oversees all inspections of the postal service. you can have a seat. sorry. hopefully that's my glitch of the day. national headquarters offices have 18 field divisions and two service centers in the national forensics laboratory. about 700 postal police officers and 600 support personnel. he serves as chairman of the universal postal union, union's postal security group. prior to his appointment, served as deputy chief inspector at the national headquarters. he overall national security programs for the postal service. native of west virginia. he grew up in new orleans. he joined the postal service in 1987 when he became a letter carrier there. 1991, became a postal inspector to new orleans division where he investigated internal and external mail theft throughout louisiana and southern mississip

postal service to make this event what it is today. we're honored to have with uss morning the chief postal inspector of the u.s. postal inspection service, he was appointed in july 2010. he oversees all operations of the postal inspection service which include national headquarters office. sorry, you can have a seat. [ laughter ] >> sorry about that. >> hopefully that's my glitch of the day. national headquarters, 18 field positions, two in laboratory, staffed by 114 inspectors, 700 postal police officers and approximately 600 support personnel. chief cat rell serves as postal union postal security group. prior to his appointment served as deputy chief inspector at the national headquarters, where he oversee all national security programs for postal service. a native of west virginia, grew up in noerps. he joined postal service in 1987 when he became a letter carrier there. 1991 became a postal inspector to the new orleans division where he investigated internal and external mail theft throughout louisiana and southern mississippi. since that time, the chief held

postal service this morning to make this event what it is today. and we're honored to have with us morning the chief postal inspector of the u.s. postal inspection service. inspector guy catrell. he was appointed the postal inspector of the u.s. postal inspection service in july 2010. he oversees all inspections of the postal service. you can have a seat. sorry. hopefully that's my glitch of the day. national headquarters offices have 18 field divisions and two service centers in the national forensics laboratory. about 700 postal police officers and 600 support personnel. he serves as chairman of the universal postal union, union's postal security group. prior to his appointment, served as deputy chief inspector at the national headquarters. he overall national security programs for the postal service. native of west virginia. he grew up in new orleans. he joined the postal service in 1987 when he became a letter carrier there. 1991, became a postal inspector to new orleans division where he investigated internal and external mail theft throughout louisiana and southern mississipp

postal service history has taught us was not made to send packages, it was made for letters back in the day when the u.s. postal service was created. 21st century or not, don't they need to redo the entire group? >> absolutely. the reason they're in letters is that they have a monopoly. nobody sells allowed to deliver letters. they do well on packages but only 8% of the package delivery industry. government should remove the monopoly protection. we've seen this in other industries like uber with cabs. when competition comes in, it can force the old-fashioned incumbent to be better for them in the long run. cheryl: speaking of washington and money and, of course, that is what we're covering on this network. they raised credit limit of 15 billion dollars with the treasury in 2012, and at the same time, december of 2012, they proposed to make cuts, the postal service did, and guess who stood in the way? congress? congress said, look, hold off. we're going to address your issues, it never went to a vote in d.c., ever. >> congress doesn't have solutions, there is no debate of one solution ov

postal service this morning to make this event what it is today and we're honored to have with us thisning the chief postal inspector of the u.s. postal inspection service. he was appointed the 38th chief postal inspector of the u.s. postal inspection service in july, 2010. he oversees all operations of the postal inspection service which includes national headquarters offices -- sorry, you can have a seat. [ laughter ] sorry about that. that's my -- hopefully that's my glitch of the day. national headquarters office includes 18 field divisions, two service centers and the national forensics laboratory. the office is staffed by more than 1,400 postal inspectors, 700 postal police officers and approximately 600 support personnel. the chief also serves as chairman of the universal postal union, union's postal security group. prior to his appointment served as deputy chief inspector at the national headquarters where he oversaw all national security programs for the postal service. he's a native of west virginia, grew up in new orleans, cottrel joined the postal service in 1987 when he be

the postal service should use him in a commercial. >> rain, sleet or snow. >>> we've got breaking newsn wheaton. sky9 is over the scene where a metrobus struck a pedestrian. you're looking at what's occurring there on the scene. this is happening near the wheaton metro station. we're told the person hit has a broken leg, but we don't know any other details. we will get more details and update you as soon as it comes into the newsroom. >>> coming up live roaches, mouse droppings, no running water, that means it's this week's restaurant alert. we'll bring it to you when we come back. >> plus you think your sports collection is something to brag about? wait until you see what andrew lang has. that's next in today's inside pitch. mmm, progressive insurance here. ever since we launched snapshot, my life has been positively cray-cray. ? only a revolutionary tool that can save you big-time. just plug it in, and the better you drive the more cash you'll stash. switching to progressive can already save ye $500. snapshot could save ye even more. meat maiden! bringeth to me thine spiciest wings o

postal service create the first harvey milk stamp that put us together on the national map (clapping) and there's a lot to celebrate we're working hard to make sure our housing needs are coming up and we want to acknowledge the hard work senator leno and others together with us to make sure that we prevent the wrongful evictions that occur in the city it effects the lgbt communities i'm also to proud that every time there is the unfortunate cuts in hiv i aids funding we work hard with nancy pelosi to prevent that but when it happens beyond our control our city gills i fills gaps we do this through supervisor campos and supervisor scott wiener and others working together to make sure our board and mayor are working strong to fill those gaps there's so much to do with the gaps we're talking to president obama with the occurring of aids as that time comes nearing near we're going to make sure we bridge the gaps and people live strong rich lives there's so much to be proud of you was happy with pacific whispered in my area to get the goats up to the hill so we can have the pink triangle f

it to make money, or you can use it to subsidize someone. in this case what the postalto do is to subsidize. so the question is whether those sub sid -- whether those subsidies are sufficient for the economy. i tend to not like subsidies in general. i think that it tends to cause distortions in the long run. my view is that the postal service unfortunately is an aging entity. in a defining industry and there are good substitutes for it and over time it's going to die a slow but probably appropriate death. >> how much time? we're talking about something that's lost, has recorded a loss in 21 of the last 23 quarters. this is what people are going to be talking about, right? they're happy to get their mail. >> i love my mailman. i love my teachers. i just don't like the people running it. you know. >> that's right. >> the bureaucrats that have no accountability. >> yeah, well absolutely. and i mean look. the postal service could, if it wanted to, earn higher levels of revenue, simply by restructuring their prices. bulk rate mail for example is priced low. that could go up.

us. this is democracy now! when we come back, physicist ted postal on the iron dome. esident obama has just signed off on a bill for israel to expand its arsenal of interceptor missiles. stay with us. [♪] >> this is democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. >> monday president obama signed a bill granting initial $225 the irono replenish dome defense system. emergency spending was approved unanimously by the senate and by a 395 to eight vote in the house. one of the nations leading missile experts says there is now no evidence that iron dome is actually working. theater postal is well-known forin the fence circles exposing the failure of missiles during operation desert storm. >> we turn now to part two of the conversation we had with the m.i.t. professor. he recently wrote an article called "the evidence that shows iron dome is not working." postol is well known within defense circles for exposing the failures of the patriot missile system during operation desert storm in 1991. >> these comparisons are tricky. it is the early warning and sheltering sys

but we have to use every element at our business postal. e to be as good as we can possibly be because this threat is big and it's looming. bettelooming. leland: another embarrass the for the veterans affairs department. oscar the grouch used to refer to our american war heroes. martha: s.w.a.t. team members called out after an internet prank goes too far. >> this is a real thing for us. this is not a game. we are real guns and real bullets and there is the potential there for some tragedy. bulldog: if you're like me, you've been working like a dog all year. but don't camp out 'til labor day to reward yourself. mattress discounters labor day sale ends monday! rest those tired bones on a queen size serta mattress and box spring set. right now, they're just $397. get 48 months interest-free financing on the entire tempur-pedic cloud collection. not to labor the point, but this sale ends monday. ♪ mattress discounters >> some internet prank put several schools and businesses on lockdown. somebody made a phony 911 call leading to a massive s.w.a

. >> u.p.s., fedex, the postal service, staples and dhl are all equipped to use package concierge. >>rancisco woman says her "airbnb" experience has turned into a big nightmare. she rented her condo in palm springs and now can't get rid of the her two tenants. she rented it for 44 days to two brothers but they stopped paying and now they refuse to leave. then she got a nasty text message. >> kind of like my heart sank and it felt like i was being bullied. it felt like i was being threatened and bullied and trying to be intimidated. the way the text was written like in a lot of caps with exclamation marks. >> you can hear more from the landlord about her awful experience on "cbs this morning" beginning at 7:00 right here on kpix 5. >>> 4:56. a boat runs aground and a fisherman is lost at sea. now there's a new twist in the investigation into what happened to the captain. the details coming up. ,,,,,,,, it's never been easier to find a dentist. watch. dentist. at 1-800-dentist, we've helped over 8 million people find that right dentist. we can do the same for you. so don't put it off. c

postal service is using outside plans to celebrate a new stamp of a musical icon janice. today the first day the seven step issued a veteran arnold star of 1960's he is depicted in her trademark round sunglasses candid in the shade of pink. remembered for songs such as me bobby mcgee and peace in my heart. she dried died of what drug overdose at age 27 >> : the latest addition in postal service music icon for ever since. >> : clothing co. apparel facing a backlash over a new back- to-school ad. at 530 we are tracking: and hurricane as high winds rain caused damage there. first passing with flying colors u.s. airline takes the top spot when it comes to of your cancelled in the saddle bags next >> : we are seeing clearing at the " right now announcing more fun to the weekend also big changes as part of thunderstorms and the forecast more coming up >> : ...we need to break up. is it the biting? cuz i can stop? no! i love you and your show. it's cable. customers are more satisfied with u-verse. switch and we can stay together forever. forever? ow. i'm not gonna lie to you. it

us names, wayne. >> we will leave it there. >> i don't want to get sued here, guys. >> good enough. fair enough. it's called cashing in. i don't know. remember this postal worker flipping me off? you may flip out when you see what the post office is about to do to you and no it's not dumping your mail like this. it's much worse. political ploy. more on this and rest of your headlines at the top of the hour. >>> have you seen this, a postal office worker caught on tape throwing out mail. the post office says it will lose $2 billion in the spring and default on a $5.7 billion payment to the treasury department. jonathan, guess who's going t pick up that tab. >> the postal service has gone down, the price has gone up over years. what other industry can make that claim? the service is terribly run. the average total compensation for a postal employee is about $80,000. that's 20 grand more than the private sector and it's not surprising why they keep this money-losing operation open, it's the jobs. 91% of postal union employees donate to democrats. we should follow europe in this case and privatize it just like postal industries in england, in denmark and in

. >>> ups, fed ex, the postal service are all equipped to use this package concierge. >>> speaking oferies, there are a lot of them going on right now at hospitals on the other side of the country. remember the polar vortex paul was talking about that? that encased much of the east in brutal cold. happened about nine months ago. whoops. one couple in pennsylvania says it may have had a little something to do with the little surprise named grant. >> it makes sense. in the summer you are out, swimming, you are biking, all sorts of stuff outside n the winter, nothing to do besides stay in the house and stuff happens, and then you have three boys before you know it. >> you can move to california. it never rains here. that couple's other two sons were born in july. hmm. some hospitals are reporting a 30% spike in birth rates. >> it happens a lot after hurricane season as well. >> snow storms. >>> yes. there is a different kind of population explosion. we'll tell you that going on right now in the bay area. why ospreys are everywhere. >>> it is raining in august. would you believe? there is

us names, wayne. >> we will leave it there. >> i don't want to get sued here, guys. >> good enough. fair enough. it's called cashing in. i don't know. remember this postal worker flipping me off? you may flip out when you see what the post office is about to do to you and no it's not dumping your mail like this. it's much worse. . can this decadent, fruit topped pastry... ...with indulgent streusel crumble, be from... fiber one. new fiber one streusel. >> coming up this postal worker gave me a delivery. they may be the biggest threat they may be the biggest threat to america's future. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow. that's why i always choose the fastest intern. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevator. the fastest speed dial. the fastest office plant. so why wouldn't i choose the fastest wifi? i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. >>> hello, everybody, i'm uma pemmaraju in washington. tensions remain very high once again in ferguson, missouri, after more violence erupts overnight. it's been a

been a look at military retirement benefits, and later a congressional committee on postal service oversight. >> join us on c-span tonight at 8 p.m. eastern for a special look at voting rights and election law. we recorded a panel of analysts discussing the topic. here's a preview. >> let me to a historic job and put this in context of why we've come to different conclusions on the same topic. republicans generally have a view of the purpose of an election, which is certainty. the purpose of holding an election is that we know who one. and that we are clear as who is the one and there's no question asked in one. so anything that in a sense cleaned up the electoral process, that gives us the uncertainty is a burden worth paying it because that's the purpose of an election. democrats generally believe the legitimacy and election and false participation. do anything that limits the participation of all those who could vote from voting undermines the legitimacy of the outcome. even if that means that the results may be a little message on the edges but these are both legitimate a position to take. this is a

used to be a part of fort lee. we were actually cut out of fort lee to be created as a battlefield come created by one unit and one confederate soldier. i think the postal service for coming here representing the stamp, thank you. the city ofu to petersburg for working with us. [applause] her everyil war airs saturday at 6:00 and 10 p.m. eastern time. too much war of our programming, visit our website, c-span.org/history. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> next on american history tv, texas christian university steve and woodworth speaks about union general aj smith's guerrillas and their involvement and decisive action in the battle of nashville in december of 1864. this talk was part of a symposium on 1864 and the western theater. it is a little under 45 minutes. [applause] >> i have some very tough act to follow. i don't have a general in a jar or a president in a box. i don't have a great powerpoint , butntation like jim had maybe i can tell you about a troop of trained guerrillas, maybe i can do that. i will try to keep it moving along here. just been told, and as i assume you know, the battle of nashvill

the post master joining us to talk about the u.s. postal service. >> place your bets.t the casino, your laptop and smartphone is the fakes suffering from gambling gone wild? the man lays the cards on the table as atlantic city faces a major cold streak. the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now. [ music playing ] >> good morning, everybody, welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm becky quick along with joe kernan. >> you talk about the post office, he's a genius. >> he is good. andrew is off this week. we have been watching the futures, they are indicating a higher open. take a look, you will see the futures are indicated up by about 73 points. >> that is an improvement from where we were a half hour ago. you see the s&p futures indicated up by ten points the ten year in the meantime sitting at 2. %. the government will be out with july retail sales in 90 minutes, economists expecting a rise of .2 of a percent. that's one of two reports out today at 10:00 eastern time, we will get a retail sector at 8:00 eastern, macy's is expected to report a share. data

used to be a part of fort lee. we were actually cut out of fort lee to be created as a battlefield created by one union and one confederate soldier. i'd like to thank the postalervice for coming here. thank you for the city of st. petersburg for being with us. go and find yourself in history. >> thursday night a look at the civil war's atlanta campaign. in may of 1864, william sherman marched into georgia with the goal of capturing atlanta. after a series of battles throughout the summer and the see siege of the city, atlanta fell in 1864. we will join with sherman's march and a look at confederate weapons manufacturing in central georgia after the fall of atlanta. that's all coming up thursday night here on cspan 3. >> 200 years ago on august 24th, 1814, british soldiers routed american troops at the battle of bladeensberg just outside of washington d.c. it left the capitol wide open to british forces who marched into the city and burned down the nation's capitol. you can here more about this thursday on an event hosted by the smithsonian associated. our live coverage starts at 6:45 eastern and more august 23rd as we takeb$h$h$hlñç you live to tr a panel dis

postal services. not only in india. >> moving mail doesn't make the bunny it used to.india wants a banking licence, it says it can reach more people than a traditional bank. >> small-time investors can't do to bank, they won't accept meagre savings. >> reporter: these banks are a reminder of how much the postal service evolves. as india modernizes, the institution is working hard to deliver prosperity. snoorks >>> fewer quality films are made, which could lead to fewer film festivals. coming up a look at what is causing the movie shortage, coming up next. >>> you may not think of new york city as a place to find humpback whales, but there have been several sight inns, this one is off the coast of queens. the waters serve as a feeding ground for whales, dolphins and sharks. >> welcome back, thank you for joining us on al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford. first a look at the temperatures. >> what a beautiful morning, a lot of people in central park running and biking. >> good labour day weekend. >> 66 degrees now in new york city. 59 in boston, portland and maine at 5

people traffic watter people i talked with say they use public transportation today and actually worked pretty well >> : meantime news that u.s. postalvice revealed a new stamp of musical icon janice at the outside less today first day the san francisco issued honoring the rock-and-roll star and 1960's. on sunglasses to sit in the shade of pink remembered for her songs such as me and bobby mcgee peace in my heart. she died of a drought drug overdose at age 27. this edition of postal service music icon for ever stamp series >> : opened of cases in the state nearing 7000 with children getting ready to go back to school state health officials reminding parents to get their kids back vaccinated >> : doctors say teenagers the contract opened often easily transmitted to infants most at risk for death. we're less epidemic in 2010 opened off cases been on the rise to 1990's >> : kids out at the mall sending hundreds of dollars a back- to-school shopping they are not buying school supplies to take a peek in on the purchases they say they need more than anything else >> : pre nice day on the bay area today little warm portions of inland valley

postal and email addresses. as well as card numbers from about 100-thousand transactions. were jeopardized. >> it scares me. everyday we use ups. every day. >>pam moore u-p-s says, there have not been any reported cases of fraud due to the breach. and their system is now secure. u-p-s is offering identity protection and credit monitoring services. to affected customers. the woman arrested in the hit and run death of her 2- year old niece. will be in court tommorrow. 25-year-old lorysha gage faces felony child endangerment charges. police say, on friday. she was crossing mission street in san francisco, with her niece and nephew against a red light. officials say, at one point, she left 2- year old mi-yana gregory, unattended in the street, while she went back to the curb to get the child's brother. the little girl was then hit and killed by a car which did not stop. police are still looking for the driver of the white sedan. coming up. a patient under quarantine. the deadly african ebola plague. may have reached northern california. plus -- a desperate search. a disabled bay area veteran. looking for something he holds dea

then he made counterfeit credit cards and used them to buy at least $200,000 in merchandise. target says they are working with postalls and law enforcement and so far there is no indication that the networks were breached. the san francisco 49ers have finalized their regular season roster, but one key figure was already missing. they will have to move on without linebacker alden smith for at least the first nine games. he was suspended for violating conduct and substance abuse policies. he cannot rejoin the team until november 5th. he issued this statement to his fans. it says i apologize to my teammates, coaches, the entire 49ers organization and fans for not being able to contribute on the the field for several weeks. i will be at work daily to participate in all permitted work activities and to support my teammates just as they have supported me. our coverage continues online at nbcbayarea.com where you can watch a series of investigative reports on the legal troubles. the inspirational story of openly gay football player michael sam. the st. louis rams cut him from the roster as part of the final cutdown. is he

us what we can do. melissa: right, exactly. keep the best secrets for themselves. more trouble for the u.s. postal service. the agency reporting a $2 billion loss in the most recent quarter which contributes to a loss of more than $47 billion in the past decade, but, the cherry on top of this awful sundae is new video going viral, showing a postal work, allegedly throwing mail in dumpster. it wait as while. i watched this five times in my office. gets out and dumps, gets back in the car with another helping. isn't this, could have at least like newman gotten the storage bank downtown where to store all the mail and deliver later. back and forth. dump, dump. somebody is taking video of the whole thing? unbelievable. check's in the mail. you think she is recycling. >> if you zoom on that, birthday card i was supposed to send to my sister, i'm sorry. i love you. melissa: that was all the checks that were in the mail were in her car. everybody said checks in the mail. >> this happened 90 days ago. what happened to the employee. merely suspended which says something about the whole union structure that they're

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special agents as postal inspectors were called back then were known -- they helped to introduce many services usedney orders had their origin in the war between the states and made it easier for soldiers to send money to their families. special agents helped get money to htheir families while they ae in the field. the stamp we dedicate here today is a rendering the painting the charge of the 22nd negro regiment 16th of june, 1864, depicting an early part of the petersberg campaign. this campaign was according to hess, the longest, most complex and perhaps the most important of the civil war. here today we have the stamp designer phil jordon with us. the soldiers shown were part of the men who made up the united states colored troops. the they were fighting for their own freed ol and freem om of freed slaves in the south. brave men put their lives on the line in order to prove that he were fit to be citizens. writers freedom man and african abolitionist douglas said once let the black man get upon his purse and the brass letter us. let his get an ego on his button and bullets in his pocket, there i

used to with e-mail and all things digital. but that's not so much what's doing the postal service in. it's the cost of its workforce. postal service owes $100 billion in benefits payments for workers past and present. postal service keeps defaulting on those payments and what needs to be done is for congress to legislate an overhaul that would change the postal services business model reducing it's gar gap an financial burden and in the meantime they want to cut costs in other ways, one proposal is cut back on saturday deliveries but there is a pretty strong lobby against doing that. the other option is to try to cash in on the online shopping craze by shipping out more packages. the higher revenue numbers so it's working up to a points. more needs to be done to kuyt are cut down the costs but to do it suck. i, congress needs to act. and don't hold your breath for that. that's our show for today, i am al see velshi, thank you for joining us. los that void... >> there is a huge opportunity for al jazeera america to change the way people look at news. >> we just don't parachute in on a story...quickly talk to a couple

used to be sold in the u.s. they aren't dangerous to people but to the agriculture. before any international package enters the u.s. postal service it's inspected. the airmail facility at sfo processes 1 million boxes a month. they go through a series of inspections, including the x-ray. >> we do get our fair share of counterfeit sports merchandise and precursors to narcotics and counter fit drugs. >> reporter: they say this week officers wanted a closer look at this styrofoam box shipped from germany bound for vista, california. the label said it was supposed to be a toy car. >> they opened it and found living, black, red-legged millipedes about a foot long. >> reporter: 20 millipedes and ticks mufrgesing on leaves. they are considered a serious agriculture threat. >> not something that we see every day. not your usual thing. >> reporter: but it's not unheard of, back when we were working on a story in the airmail facility they found a dead trants la. >> dead or alive, animal parts, animal products. >> reporter: the shipper in germany won't be contacted, but his name will be put on a watch list for future packages. and t

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postal accountability enhancement act. they funded future retirees 50 years in advance. >> they keep missing billion dollars in payments. >> they are not going to make. >> that used to be the job to get. charles: i it still is. >> whether we were kids, my uncle worked for post office service. charles: that are a full career in u.s. army he had another career with the u.s. post office, he is squared away. >> some of the mail carriers work hard. charles: they do yo but some pee on the desk, you never' to anger them. >> a perfect time to stop, low the whistle get started, u opena page from payne's investment playbook, a lot of ways that we could measure the economy, a lot of people say, that economy is doing great, we rebounded, but, there is nothing more important than a good paying job. now on that note, a lot has been written about quantity of jobs, officially erase that 8.7 million loss in first quarter this year, 6 years after the great reaction began, but details have been suspect, the u.s. conference admits there is a stark reality to the wage bound recovery, the compensation of new jobs for the previous recession jobs, the wage gap is more than $14,000, that is 23