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Big investment firms have billions. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, gwinnett county, georgia. neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stop the u.s. postal service. but it can be slowed down thanks to a change in delivery times that took effect on october 1. the three-day delivery window for first class mail is now five days long. it's the biggest slowdown of mail services in a generation, since the 1970s. this is just one part of the ten-career plan from postmaster general louis dejoy. a surcharge for delivery from now until december 26 in some cases is as high as $5 more per packag...

Cockpits through unpredictable weather. in the first decade of airmail service 34 of the 200 or so u.s. postal service pilots lost their lives in crashes. while delivering the mail. but still the post office attracted the best pilots in the world, among their ranks this pilot on the far right who at the time held the record, the world record for the fastest trip around the globe, and though it was dangerous, and risky and expensive the u.s. postal service stuck to it, reengineering the planes and the routes and tinkering with every piece of the process because the u.s. postal service had a vis...

Had a vision that airmail was the future and they wanted to make that future a reality. the innovative spirit of the post office leadership is nowhere to be found today. as the post office and that exchange is making its services slower and more expensive. as of today, the postal service has cut its airmail service in half. yesterday, if you mailed something first class within the united states postal service from chicago, it will take two days of the cotton destination is close, three if the destination is anywhere else in the continental u.s.. sometimes it would be faster than that. today, i...

>> north vietnam's top negotiators said there will be no breakthrough in the peace talk until the bombing has stopped unconditionally. >> the united states have dropped more bombs on north and south vietnam than they'd used in the entire world war ii. >> north vietnam would not enter into any negotiations until all bombings stopped in vietnam. >> for the last two weeks word of a breakthrough in peace has swept the world. there's been no official announcement by this country until the one the president is about to make right now. >> i have now ordered that all airmail and artillery bombardment ...