President Biden’s final two nominees to serve on the U.S. Postal Service’s board of governors promised to take a close look at key decisions made by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, telling a Senate committee on Thursday they plan to be actively involved in overseeing the mailing agency. Dan Tangherlini and Derek...
The Postal Service, under intense pressure from Congress and the Biden administration, has doubled its initial order for electric vehicles as part of its next-generation delivery vehicle (NGDV) fleet. USPS announced Thursday it spent nearly $3 billion on 50,000 next-generation vehicles as part of its initial order to the vendor Oshkosh...
For the past week, a group of truckers known as the “Freedom Convoy” has circled the Capital Beltway outside Washington, and begun to venture into the city. Perhaps some of the truckers might consider stopping off and filing a job application at the U.S. Postal Service while they’re in town....
The Senate voted 79-19 on Tuesday evening to pass a sweeping $107 billion plan to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service. Why it matters: Advocates argue that the bill will provide the beleaguered USPS with financial relief and help it modernize its operations, per the Washington Post. Read the full article here....
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...