The new head of the U.S. Postal Service established major operational changes Monday that could slow down mail delivery, warning employees the agency would not survive unless it made “difficult” changes to cut costs. But critics say such a philosophical sea change...
EVEN IN the Internet age, a solvent, functional postal service remains an essential element of any advanced nation’s infrastructure. As of January, however, the U.S. Postal Service was on its way to running out of cash by 2024, according to USPS management’s five-year business...
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...
The Aug. 25 front-page article “For years, fentanyl has flowed across the border and through the mail” omitted the U.S. Postal Service’s aggressive efforts to keep dangerous drugs from entering the United States from China and other countries. The Postal Service is aggressively working to...
Chinese drug traffickers had some advice for American buyers of fentanyl: Let us ship it to you by regular mail. It might be slower than FedEx or UPS, but the opioid is much more likely to reach its destination through the U.S....