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With the stress of the holidays upon us, don't let these important shipping deadlines pass you by.

Don't go off the rails just yet. I'm not being a jerk. Go with me on this one.

It's time for you to be a bit creative, East Texas. I'm looking for awesome captions for the pictures below.

With this new free service, the post office will send black and white pictures of the mail that's coming to you that day.  It's been tested in big cities, and the expansion includes Lufkin and Nacogdoches.

This may be the craziest package delivery season ever. With millions of packages on the way thanks to all of our cyber shopping, the Fed Ex and UPS drivers, and mail carriers have to be going nuts.  Again, I'm sorry for all of my adding to cart.  But please bring those packages soon. Have you had a package get lost or delayed?  I'm hearing some wild stories.

More is known now about the timeline for the closure of an East Texas mail processing center. Last May we brought you the news here on this blog, that the mail processing facility in Tyler was on the list of announced closures as the postal service looks to tighten up its budget, and now it looks like that will happen in June of this year.  What does it mean exactly for our mail in Lufkin? Read Mo

In an announcement made earlier this month, the US Postal Service told customers that as of May 16, they will no longer ship electronics like iPads, Kindles, smartphones and other devices containing lithium batteries overseas. This means that people who want to ship electronics to troops serving abroad will have to pay a premium to go through private shipping services.

If you haven’t bought stamps in awhile, you may want to stock up — they’ll cost more after this weekend.