As lawmakers work on finishing fiscal 2022 appropriations, they’ll have to decide whether to keep a House spending provision that would allow some post offices to offer more financial services. Coming in the wake of a largely ignored U.S. Postal Service test of a check-cashing service, a new initiative could test...
The U.S. Postal Service finalized plans Wednesday to purchase up to 148,000 gasoline-powered mail delivery trucks, defying Biden administration officials’ objections that the multibillion-dollar contract would undercut the nation’s climate goals. 10 steps you can take to lower your carbon footprint Postmaster General Louis DeJoy disregarded requests from the White House Council...
Congress is already congratulating itself on a bipartisan “reform” of the U.S. Postal Service. The House bill passed 342-92 this month, and it has good prospects in the Senate. Too bad this legislation is an accounting shuffle that’s comic in how much it misses the point. The USPS has lost money...
Much has been said about Congress’s failure to pass voting rights reform and the bulk of President Biden’s agenda in the Build Back Better Act. But at least one piece of common-sense, bipartisan policymaking is moving forward: the Postal Service Reform Act, which passed the House 342 to 92 last...
Federal legislation dedicating tens of billions in funding over the next ten years to the chronically cash-strapped US Postal Service will get a Senate vote Monday, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Sunday. The Senate vote Monday evening will come after on Tuesday the House by a wide margin approved the equivalent...