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The U.S. Postal Service says 15 Utah post offices will provide late-night collections of mail on Tuesday to assist last-minute tax filers.

In addition, 30 locations have self-service ship-and-mail centers that are available around the clock.

“Those wanting to avoid the crowds are encouraged to mail their tax returns early in the day,” the postal service says in a press release.

Stock up on one-cent stamp; you might need them. Beginning Sunday, the price of first-class postage will increase from 44 cents to 45.

The price change, the first postage markup since 2009, was announced in October. It follows last summer's announcement that the United States Postal Service was considering shuttering thousands of post offices nationwide.

The price increase is intended to raise revenue for the struggling public enterprise, which faces a projected $238 billion deficit in the next decade, postal service officials have said.

BOUNTIFUL -- Jamie Ford, 40, was charged Friday in 2nd District Court for playing a part in the theft of several packages delivered to people's porches.

WEDRON, Ill. -- In September 1926, a young airmail pilot named Charles Lindbergh crashed his plane in a field on the outskirts of this Fox River town about 80 miles southwest of Chicago. Eight months later, he made the world's first solo transatlantic airplane flight.

About 16 miles to the northeast, Millington was once called Milford until the post office opened in 1861, prompting officials to change the name to avoid confusion with a Milford in a different county.

Now both tiny towns are bracing for a different brush with history. The U.S. Postal Service is considering making their cottage-size post offices extinct.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- South Florida drug smugglers increasingly are using an alternative method of sending their shipments: the mail.

As bloody drug wars rage at the Mexican border and police efforts are stepped up to stop drug trafficking by the trailer load, the mail -- both the U.S. Mail and commercial carriers -- seems a less-risky way for drug dealers to ship their packages, authorities say.

ST. LOUIS -- The FedEx envelope looked ordinary. White, with the purple and orange logo. It arrived recently in the newsroom. The packing slip listed the sender as Philip J. Guyett Jr. Placing the name took a moment. Guyett? Wait. Wasn't that the guy ... the guy who sent body parts via FedEx?

Eight years ago, Guyett made headlines when he shipped three FedEx boxes to the St. Louis area. One of those boxes was damaged en route. It began leaking blood. A worker at a shipping facility in Maplewood, Mo., decided to look inside. He found a human leg, cut off at mid-thigh. He opened the other boxes. He found a second severed leg and a full arm.

It was a Dahmer-esque discovery. Police were called, media alerted. And to just about everyone's surprise, officials said it was all legal. Shipping body parts was fine, with the correct paperwork. And Guyett had it.

With that, he disappeared from public view. But the episode felt unfinished, like this couldn't possibly be the end of things. And it wasn't -- which explained the FedEx envelope from Guyett now.

Guyett was a body broker. He doesn't like that term. But it best describes him: a death-industry middleman who found people willing to donate their bodies to science, then carved them up and distributed the pieces nationwide to surgical conferences and research labs.

OGDEN -- Sending a message to an inmate in Weber County Jail?

Better make it short and sweet -- it'll have to fit on a postcard.

Weber County Jail is no longer allowing inmates to receive mail in envelopes. The policy was put into effect several months ago, said Weber Sheriff's Lt. Mark Lowther.