[evilC]

Do you know if you have cookies turned on? Some sites need cookies (especially "shopping" sites) and will fail if they can not be set.

Another possible problem is if you use an Internet "accelerator" type of program. These programs store the real (numeric) internet address for a given domain name (e.g. www.usps.com) in an effort to speed things up by avoiding an address lookup. If the numeric address of the site changes but your program still uses the old one you will get a "not found" error.

Look under C:\Windows\ for a file called "hosts", just "hosts", not hosts.something. If you have that file, open it with notepad and look for something like:
123.123.123.123 shop.usps.com

[the 123.123 bit is the numeric address and the letters are the name you type into the browser. The domain for buying stamps seems to be shop.usps.com not www.usps.com]

If you find a line like that place a "#" before the first character (e.g.#123.123.123.123 shop.usps.com) and save the file. Shutdown your browser and try again.

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[joybelle]

It is probably just as mixed up as their post offices. Millions have been spent to enlarge to sell stamps, novelities with no one to sell them, wasted space for brochures, resulting in longer and longer lines. Why didn't they spend the money on hiring employees. Our tax dollars at work. I go to Postal Express.
BTW, a package sent by the P.O., unless priority, is contracted out to a shipper to be sent. That shipper waits until they have a whole pallet for each zip code before shipping.