Thursday Reading: As Cuts Loom, Postal Service Customers Bemoan Delays

A variety of consumer-focused articles appears daily in The New York Times and on our blogs. Each weekday morning, we gather them together here so you can quickly scan the news that could hit you in your wallet.

• Postal service customers bemoan delays. (National)
• Stores work to lure online shoppers offline. (Business)
• Car-pooling spurred by apps and social media. (Business)
• The indoor look moves outdoors. (Home)
• Garden tags to mark your herbs. (Home)
• Dusting off the sewing machine. (Thursday Styles)
• Chevy Spark ditches the CD player. (Wheels)
• A Wi-Fi router you won’t have to hide. (Gadgetwise)
• Why can’t all parents have more? (Motherlode)
• Physicists find an elusive subatomic particle. (National)