Dec. 19—Question : Auwe ! Our post office usually has stacks of flat-rate boxes in the lobby, free for the taking, but last week there were none. Question : Auwe ! Our post office usually has stacks ...

Sailors and Marines move mail onto the amphibious assault ship Makin Island during a planned stop in Singapore in December 2011. (MC1 David Mckee/Navy) This article was updated to reflect correct ...

I would like to respond to the letters about the postage being costly for our soldiers. My husband is serving in Japan. My family and I send him packages all the time, but very seldom pay more than $7 ...

If you want to ship parcels using the United States Postal Service, you may want to so before Sunday, Jan. 19. While mailing service costs, such as the cost of first-class stamps, will not change, ...

Emails, texts and online messaging may have largely replaced physical letters, but there is only so much you can send over the internet. Shipping carriers will continue to do brisk business as long as ...

If you could cram anything you wanted into a small flat-rate box from the United States Postal Service (USPS), is it possible to exceed the 70-pound domestic weight limit? A Washington, D.C.-based ...