If you want to learn how mail works, what better guide than Elmo? Letter writing is probably an abstract concept for a generation of schoolchildren more likely to have held a mobile device before ever touching a pencil. That’s why the furry red...
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy purchased up to $305,000 in bonds from an investment firm whose managing partner also chairs the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board, the independent body responsible for evaluating DeJoy’s performance. Between October and April, DeJoy purchased 11 bonds from Brookfield...
Mark Currie of Virginia had three checks snagged in postal delays in three months. In New Jersey, Lois Fitton says she was forced to pay interest on a credit card balance because the bill never arrived. Jim Rice says two insurance companies...
TROUBLES CONTINUE at the U.S. Postal Service, whose performance in terms of on-time delivery suffered a sudden and precipitous decline in the last two months of 2020. In the last week of December, only 71 percent of local first-class mail arrived within...
Jeff Wagner hardly knew what to tell his delivery driver when the man returned one day in late December from a run to the post office in their northern Nebraska town with a trailer still full of newspapers. The post office wouldn’t take...