1. The postal service reported a net loss of $1.9 billion in the second quarter of fiscal year 2014.

2. Swiss Post stands out as a government postal service with a strong interest in emerging technologies.

3. Turnbull said he is confident that the postal option did not need Senate endorsement.

4. But the Communications Workers Union says this poses a risk to the safety of postal workers handling the boxes.

5. Over the course of his life he took jobs as a house servant and a postal worker.

6. My father was a postal worker, so I know he did.

7. As one postal official put it, If Muhammad cannot go to the mountain, the mountain comes to him.

8. Congressional reaction was mixed, mirroring differences that have stalled a needed postal overhaul for some time.

9. Swiss Post, the national postal service in Switzerland, will test robots next month in three cities to deliver food and medicine.