Amid the COVID pandemic, the world’s postal services persevered through the quarter ending June 30, 2021. We review how leadership has responded, financial challenges, service developments, and assorted other issues such as technology and marketing HERE....
Visitors to the James A. Farley Building in Midtown Manhattan, which formerly served as New York City’s main United States Postal Service (USPS) branch, will find these iconic words inscribed on top: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed...
On May 28, 2021, the U.S. Postal Service announced a major price increase for all mail products and services, one of the largest in its history. Barring extraordinary developments, mail prices will rise an average of 6.9 percent on August 29, 2021. The Consumer Postal Council’s Paul Steidler reviews these...
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) thinks you might need a bigger mailbox. As for why, it’s for exactly the reason you’d expect: Due to the explosion of online shopping, your old letterbox is probably too small for the volume and type of mail you now receive. Each year, the Postal Service...
Neither rain nor snow nor hail nor sleet – or even the new Juneteenth federal holiday – will stop the mail. Mail delivery will go on as scheduled on Friday and Saturday even though Friday is a federal holiday under a new law signed Thursday by President Joe Biden. Biden gave federal...
If you thought 2020 was bad, it was even worse for letter carriers. With National Dog Bite Awareness Week having begun on Saturday and continuing through to June 18, the United States Postal Service released its annual report about how many of their employees were attacked by dogs. “From nips and bites...