Every day postal trucks drop off about 4,000 packages at a US Postal Service station in central Tennessee, where they’re unloaded by a team of around six USPS employees. Each person grabs a box, rushes to the only scanning machine, runs the bar code, and then places it in the...
A teddy bear arrives in the mail, and inspectors immediately suspect foul play. They open the package and see the bear has been split open and stitched back up, with narcotics stuffed inside its fluffy belly. Postal officials take the package to its destination, hoping to catch the drug dealer...
A 100 percent increase in the cost of shipping military care packages to troops abroad has outraged New Jersey nonprofit groups who send them. Several state and federal lawmakers also have joined in opposition and seek reversal of the U.S. Postal Service rate hike. Read the full article here....
U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ) has taken a stand against unanticipated postal rate increases on behalf of non-profit organizations that send care packages to American service members deployed overseas. Rep. MacArthur sent two letters on Feb. 5 seeking solutions to United States Postal Service (USPS) rate increases, which his office said...
President Trump tweeted in December that the U.S. Postal Service isn’t charging Amazon enough to deliver merchandise. But it’s not Jeff Bezos who is getting the lowest rates. In fact, it’s a major economic competitor of the United States—China—that is getting a sweetheart deal from the USPS. Read the full article...