In one sense, postal workers are like any other working person – we want to be respected on the job and we want the value of our labor to be met with decent, family-sustaining pay and benefits. Thanks to decades of struggle in our union, we’ve realized some of that....
The United States Postal Service began on July 26, 1775 with Benjamin Franklin serving as the first postmaster general. Nearly 244 years later, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) remains, though much has changed. Evidence of the evolution of the post office can be seen in mail delivery itself. Since 1863,...
The U.S. Postal Service’s commercial spending grew to $15.9 billion in fiscal 2018 from $15 billion in fiscal 2017, Bloomberg Government’s USPS Contracts Dashboard shows. That’s an increase of nearly $1 billion and the highest amount since fiscal 2016, when Bloomberg Government first began publishing the agency data received through a Freedom of...
Shortly before Rick McDougall parks his United States Postal Service truck at the intersection of Lake Avenue and Forest Street, the snow begins to fall. It collects on the cold ground and on the high drifts that have nestled in yards. McDougall begins to make his way along his neighborhood...
Picture this: a mailman drives to a house or a complex in a big ugly square truck, drops off mail, and leaves. This simple, commonplace scene has unfolded basically unchanged over the past 60 years in the United States, as foreign posts leverage new technologies to deliver a faster, more...
Stamps.com says it is ending an exclusive relationship with the US Postal Service, sending shares of its stock plunging more than 50%. The company says Amazon is disrupting the shipping business, and it needs to do shipping deals with postal service competitors going into the future. Read the full article here....