The COVID-19 pandemic has presented historic challenges to the world’s postal operators in 2020’s first quarter. And there is good news as diplomacy leads to renewed postal service with Qatar and technological innovations come to places like Switzerland and Nigeria. These issues ...
The $2 trillion congressional coronavirus assistance package would provide badly needed relief for millions of Americans and businesses but little for one organization already in desperate financial health. The U.S. Postal Service has been in money trouble for years. Now, covid-19, the disease the virus causes, is forcing the quasi-governmental agency into a...
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the U.S., more people are relying on the mail and delivery services to provide them food, medicine and household items. At a time people are social distancing to limit the spread of COVID-19, could you contract the virus from deliveries to your home? And are...
The United States Postal Service released advisories on the state of international mail over the course of three bulletins published March 16-19. Each release addressed the specific situations for countries around the world in response to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. Some nations have suspended some or all mail services, while others are...
One employee at the Westchester Processing and Distribution Center in White Plains has been placed in self-quarantine, and a second hospitalized after testing positive for coronavirus, though there is no evidence the virus can be spread through the mail. The USPS said that the situation is being monitored, and a cleaning...
Despite dwindling snail mail and the closing of many post offices, the United States Postal Service (USPS) remains a vital agency for consumers. The mail is commonly used not only as a safe, secure way to pay bills and communicate with companies, but also to provide safety notices, send product...