U.S. Senator Susan Collins says she sent a letter to the U.S. postmaster general, urging him to address the root causes of the continued mail delays in Maine. In addition to slow service, mail delivery has been irregular, with some USPS customers going several days at a time without receiving mail. Read...
Holiday mailing deadlines are just around the corner for packages going to and from military installations overseas. For regular ground mail, the cutoff date is Nov. 5 if those packages are going under the tree, according to an Oct. 6 announcement from the U.S. Postal Service. Read the full article here....
The U.S. Postal Service is expressing confidence that tighter relationships between the mailing agency and state and local election officials have better prepared it for the upcoming midterm elections than the at times frantic experience in 2020. USPS is just one week away from implementing the “extraordinary measures'' it instituted during...
More victims of “check washing” are speaking out about their experiences as officials press the U.S. Postal Service about how it’s addressing the crime that has spiked in Chicago. The stolen-check scheme involves thieves stealing mail, erasing the ink with chemicals and rewriting the checks for themselves, as the Sun-Times reported...
As the global pandemic subsides, numerous postal services and international organizations are modernizing while also addressing workforce, capacity, and other issues. Ukraine’s post remains innovative and defiant, and the United Kingdom’s Royal Mail is undergoing change in the post-Queen Elizabeth age. These issues and more are in our quarterly update...