The U.S. Postal Service is ramping up competition with FedEx and UPS to deliver small parcels in a bid to win over cost-conscious customers. USPS Ground Advantage is a rebranded service that aims to move packages up to 70 pounds across the country without fees for residential...
The U.S. Postal Service is installing new locks on some of its traditional blue mailboxes and making it harder to access others as part of a nationwide effort to crack down on mail theft. The stepped-up security measures are intended to stop a...
For years, the U.S. Postal Service has faced competition from the likes of United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. To fight them off, it hired outside trucking companies at cut-rate prices, required them to meet aggressive schedules and then looked the...
Standing behind her post office counter with bricks of cash, a calculator and a flashlight, Lyudmila Gulovskaya distributes Ukrainian state pensions to a line of eager onlookers in this front-line village near Kherson. For these pensioners, it is the first money they...
Congress is already congratulating itself on a bipartisan “reform” of the U.S. Postal Service. The House bill passed 342-92 this month, and it has good prospects in the Senate. Too bad this legislation is an accounting shuffle that’s comic in how much...