By Evelyn Holmes Wednesday, November 6, 2019 6:52PM OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. (WLS) -- A south suburban post office has been renamed after a member of the country's first black military fighter squadron, the Tuskegee Airmen. Captain Robert Martin lived in Olympia Fields from 2008 until his death last year at age 99. He was a [...]

If you’ve read about the U.S. Postal Service recently, chances are it hasn’t been pleasant news. The agency is hemorrhaging money, headlines say. The first female postmaster general, Megan Brennan, will retire in January after reportedly drawing President Trump’s ire. Pundits wonder whether the Postal Service has become obsolete. Delivery drones hover ominously on the [...]

The Lincolnshire-based company wins a deal to supply 300,000 hand-held scanners. JOHN PLETZ ON TECHNOLOGY October 29, 2019 08:25 AM Zebra Technologies has landed a contract with the U.S. Postal Service worth more than a half-billion dollars. The Lincolnshire-based maker of bar-code scanners will supply more than 300,000 of the handheld devices to the Postal Service, [...]