U.S. Postal Service

The Feds Say They Busted Up a Mansfield-Based Steroid Ring Last Month

On February 5, U.S. Postal Inspectors customs agents were doing a routine inspection at the North Texas Processing and Distribution Center when they spotted a package freshly arrived from Singapore and destined for a home address in Crowley. The customs agents opened the mail -- they have the autho ... More >>

A Dallas-Based Sports Insurer is Suing Lance Armstrong for $12 Million Over Doping. For the Second Time.

So here's what happened. Dallas-based SCA Promotions, a sports insurer, paid Lance Armstrong a $12 million bonus for winning three Tour de France titles between 2002 and 2004. Tailwind Sports, which owned the U.S. Postal Service (Armstrong's) team, gave SCA Promotions $200,000 as insurance for the b ... More >>

A Confession from Lance Armstrong Will Just Speed Cycling's Downhill Slide

We assume Lance Armstrong will confess tonight to some part of a years-long juicing conspiracy while head of the U.S. Postal Service bicycle racing team, so we can anticipate at least a few more days of intense conversation about Armstrong. But what about bicycle racing? What is its future? The tra ... More >>

U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Says Lance Armstrong At Center of Largest-Ever Doping Conspiracy, Will Release Evidence Today

The claim that Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs has been endlessly recited in media exposes and confessional tell-alls from former teammates. The evidence, however, has never been put forth in any sort of formal way, as was going to happen publicly before the seven-time Tour de Franc ... More >>

Time For Chief Brown to Admit He's Fudging the Crime Numbers

There is good news to be found in the city's crime stats. For the ninth year in a row, Dallas is on pace to see a drop in its crime rate and, while violent crime is about flat, burglary and theft are down by 15 and 11 percent, respectively. The improving numbers are partly tied to a drop in crime n ... More >>

U.S. Postal Service's Slow Demise Looks Suspiciously Like Deliberate Homicide

Not that we could know anything here at my house about a matter so remote and complex as the looming budget crisis at the U.S. Postal Service, subject of an editorial in today's New York Times. We did notice and observe here last March that it was way more difficult for us to get the postal service ... More >>

NorthPark Scare Reminds Us 'Suspicious White Powder' is Sometimes Just Cocaine

Recent anthrax scares at preschools, synagogues, government offices, and just about anywhere else the U.S. Postal Service will deliver a white powder-filled envelope, not to mention the panting media coverage, has people on edge, calling in the cavalry at the sight of powdered sugar. Or blow. Dalla ... More >>

Neither Snow Nor Rain nor ... Oh, Screw It. The Post Office is a Dead Letter

The U.S. Postal Service Has Decided to Shutter Dallas's Main Processing Center After All

​We've known for months that the United State Post Office might shutter the Dallas Processing and Distribution Center on IH30; the USPS has been talking about doing it since, oh, 2009, for that matter. But today it's official: The postal service has announced that it's moving the Dallas Processing ... More >>

Discovering a Rare Bobby Patterson Single Mentioned in the Warren Commission Hearings

​A Friend of Unfair Park wondered Saturday afternoon: Is the "unknown teen" named Robert Patterson heard singing "Tell Me How" and "Dear Debbie" on this purchased-this-morning Future Records single none other than the Bobby Patterson? Why, yes, yes it is; just listen to that voice. Said Bobby when ... More >>

John Wiley Price, West Turn Up For Tense Forum on Fate of Dallas's Main Post Office

Photos by Anna MerlanDallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price attended, but did not speak at, last night's town hall. He sorta mailed it in.​Technically, the U.S. Postal Service hasn't yet made a decision about whether it will close the processing center at the main post office near Sylvan ... More >>

A "Very Concerned" Mayor Mike Sends Letter to U.S. Postmaster General Over Possible Closures

​As it turns out, the United States Postal Service is looking at shuttering several post offices in the city -- not just the main processing facility on IH-30, but also its locations in the Earle Cabell Federal Building (known as "Station C"), the Belmont Finance Station on Greenville Avenue and t ... More >>

On Wednesday, Public To Be Told USPS Study Recommends Closing Dallas Main Post Office

​Here we go again.Ever since I read this last month, I've been trying to nail down whether the United States Postal Service intends to shutter the Dallas Main Post Office on IH30. I went so far as to contact Eddie Bernice Johnson's office; two weeks ago her spokesperson said, "We are going to hold ... More >>

"I Love Animals and People": On Trial for Animal Cruelty, Tyrone McGill Takes the Stand

​Late this afternoon, former animal shelter manager Tyrone McGill took the stand to testify in his defense at his felony animal cruelty trial, which began yesterday. While the prosecution attempted to paint a picture of McGill as an indifferent, unreachable bureaucrat who willfully allowed a c ... More >>

New Council Map Now Out of City's Hands and In the Possession of the Department of Justice

The council-approved map​City Hall just sent word: At long last the city has submitted to the Department of Justice the new council districts map approved by the council on October 5. But that is hardly the entirety of the package sent to the DoJ yesterday: If you click here you'll find the massiv ... More >>

Well, That Was Quick: The Old Downtown Post Office, Courthouse Set to Reopen October 7

400 North Ervay​Seems like only seven months ago, give or take, that we were told of developer Shawn Todd's plans to restore the built-in-'30 U.S. Post Office and Courthouse at 400 N. Ervay, easily one of downtown's brightest jewels. Said the announcement, which was hailed by politicians and prese ... More >>

As USPS Looks to Shrink Service, Three Dallas Post Offices Are in Danger of Being Closed

The Haskell Avenue post office in danger of being shuttered following USPS's study​This morning the United States Postal Services announced it's looking at some 3,700 retail offices that may be in need of shuttering to save dough. Because, per the release, "As more customers choose to conduct thei ... More >>

Preservationists Say If Perry Kills Historical Commission, He Could Also Decimate Future

Flickr user: Nicholas Henderson​It hasn't been easy reaching a preservationist in this state in the last couple of hours. Or in D.C., for that matter. Not since Governor Rick Perry announced earlier today that in order to save the state some money, he's proposing the elimination of the Texas Histo ... More >>

Shawn Todd to Convert Old Downtown Dallas Post Office Into "Modern Luxury Living"

Federal Judiciary CenterSome facts about the post office and court house: "Completed in 1930. Supervising Architect: James A. Wetmore."​High on the top of my list of favorite downtown buildings is the old U.S. Post Office and Courthouse at 400 N. Ervay. But the building, built in '30, has gone unu ... More >>

Postal Service Forks Over a New Stamp

​The U.S. Postal Service is giving letter writers a chance to express their inner culinarians. For occasions when a president or petunia won't do, the USPS is releasing a stamp depicting a fork, knife and spoon. It's one of a dozen stamps on a pane honoring "pioneers of American industrial de ... More >>

Feds Arrest Dallas Man For Mailing Baking Soda to IRS and Social Security Administration

​Although investigators aren't linking him to the series of white powder mailings throughout North Texas, Michael Wayne Patterson was arrested Thursday by federal law enforcement officers and was detained today pending an August 30 detention hearing, according to U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks. ... More >>

Postal Service Won't Make Changes at Dallas Main Post Office Till It Completes New Audit

​For more than a month, folks who work process mail at the Dallas Main Post Office have been wondering just when the United States Postal Service is going to make 'em move to Coppell. Last week at Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's town hall meeting, Tim Vierling, senior plant manager at the Da ... More >>

Last Mail Call: Last Night at City Hall, a Town Hall Over Fate of Dallas Main Post Office

​Its been more than a month since word broke that the United States Postal Service was considering -- or, rather, planning on -- moving some operations out of the Dallas Main Post Office on I-30 to a facility in Coppell. Since then, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and Mayor Tom Leppert have ex ... More >>

(Last?) Mail Call: The USPS is Considering Shutting Down the Oak Lawn Post Office

View Larger MapJennifer Fulbright, a United States Postal Service employee for 39 years till her retirement in March 2008, is the secretary and treasurer of the Dallas chapter of the American Postal Workers Union. And she called late last week to dispute the USPS's claim that it's not looking to shu ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson Demands USPS Inspector General Get Involved in Dallas Study

 When we first reached out to Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's office last week to discuss the United States Postal Service's study concerning moving some operations from the Dallas Main Post Office to Coppell, we got no response. Then came a brief statement. A few days later, there was th ... More >>

From the 1970s, a Forgotten (In More Ways Than One) Painting of the Convention Center

Bart Forbes doesn't recall the painting of his currently up for grabs on eBay; "boy, this is old," says the Dallas-based illustrator when reached by Unfair Park for a little backstory. Course, he's done plenty of pieces since the 1970s -- everything from stamps for the U.S. Postal Service to Kentuck ... More >>

Now, It's Eddie Bernice Johnson's Turn to Send a Letter of Concern to the USPS

Eddie Bernice JohnsonOn Friday, we acquired a copy of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert's letter to the United States Postal Service, in which he enumerated his "grave concerns" regarding the USPS's proposal that calls for moving some operations out of the Dallas Main Post Office and out to Coppell. Today, i ... More >>

Mayor Leppert Has "Grave Concerns" About USPS's Proposal to Move Operations to Coppell

Sam MertenYesterday, several of you wondered why the city of Dallas wasn't doing anything to keep the United States Postal Service from moving some of its operations from the Dallas Main Post Office on I-30 to Coppell, as the USPS is considering. Well, this morning, Sam got hold of this missive Mayo ... More >>

The United States Postal Service Swears It's Not Shutting Down the Dallas Main Post Office

After the jump you'll find a copy of a letter sent on July 10 "to the citizens of Dallas, TX" by the local chapter of the American Postal Workers Union, in which union president Larry Crawford warns of the United States Postal Service's plan to close the Dallas Main Post Office on I-30, just west of ... More >>

U.S. Attorney Set to Announce Arrest in "Amarillo White Powder Letters" Investigation

Federal Bureau of InvestigationOne of the letters sent to a Chase branch, accompanied by a white powder later ruled to be calciumLast night, the U.S. Attorney's Office sent word that at 11 a.m. today there would a media conference at the Earle Cabell Federal Building downtown "to announce developmen ... More >>

Dallas Developer Finds Out, the Hard Way, That L.A.'s Angelyne Is No Boob

Life Without Debt Leaves Jimmy Phipps Owing Society

Blade Runner

Larry Neal has invented a flying motorcycle, and he wants you to try it

Cock Blocking

Wink, Wink. Nudge, Nudge. Seriously, Though...

The Cult of Ole

Ole Anthony anointed himself the watchdog of America's televangelists. But who was watching Ole Anthony?

Anthrax and Judas Priest

January 25

Vote Early, Vote Often

The story behind the failed Caraway campaign is both farce and tragedy

Union Labeled

Contract mail drivers win a long struggle to unionize

Tom Terrific

Hanks finally grows up and delivers the adult romance of Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away

A clockwork Buzz

1999, the year Bill Rojas brought panic and paranoia to DISD. But was there any other good news? Buzz takes a look back.

Manhattan transfer

Denton's Good/Bad Art Collective takes its act to New York and hopes to survive the city's brutal art scene.

Lex and Terry's wet dream

Can two transplants from the land of Lynyrd Skynyrd and fart smells find the key to radio fame at Dallas' Q102?

Second Coming

A jet-settin', Scotch-sippin' Robert Tilton washes up in South Florida--and he still wants your money

House of blues

A forgotten rock and roll pioneer fights to keep his Oak Cliff home