The unsalvageable mail “was soaking wet and clumped together, and it shredded to pieces as it was picked up.”

Three employees were charged with bribery and distribution of a controlled substance.

It’s taking place tomorrow at 11 a.m.

Because he says she’s a commie.

A historic Georgetown post office is set to be sold to a developer.

There’s a lot of things said about mailmen: on the positive side, there’s the whole “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” thing, but mostly people talk about post office employees being unhelpful and grumpy or course “going postal.” Here’s one you probably don’t hear too often, however.

The T Street Station Post Office is moving up the block, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton announced in a press release yesterday. The mail depot, she said, will be relocating to the Franklin D. Reeves Center at 14th and U streets.

Despite the fact that the U.S. Postal Service will likely lose another $5 billion in 2012, any plans to shut down post offices will be met with a fight — especially by members of Congress. Locally, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is claiming some wins.

In an email sent to constituents last night, Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham reported that the U.S. Post Office located at 1915 14th Street NW will be closing on December 31.

If you thought that the U.S. Postal Service was done making cuts to its brick-and-mortar operations, well, you were mistaken: word comes today that the USPS is now considering shutting down around ten percent of its retail outlets nationwide.