The five-year search for a new, electric U.S. Postal Service van might not be completely over just yet. While the USPS made a decision last month to award a $482 million contract to Oshkosh Defense for the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV), questions about the way the company was selected...
The House of Representatives held a hearing recently titled “Legislative Proposals to Put the Postal Service on Sustainable Financial Footing.” Democrats proposed bailing out the United States Postal Service (USPS) and Republicans proposed reforms to stop the USPS from losing billions every year. Suffice it say that on Postal reform,...
The Biden administration has an opportunity to curb the ongoing opioid epidemic in a unique area: the postal system. This opportunity is the result of a 2018 federal law that required the U.S. Postal Service and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to begin turning away international packages that lack advance electronic...
FedEx Corp. said Wednesday that it has completed the integration of its last-mile delivery operations formerly handled by the U.S. Postal Service, and has rebranded the service to FedEx Ground Economy from FedEx SmartPost. Memphis, Tennessee-based FedEx has said for several years that it planned to divert its postal business into...
The United States Postal Service announced on Wednesday the start of its next phase of organizational changes over the next two months. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in a statement that this second phase of changes will consolidate 67 service districts into 50 districts. The changes also include plans to realign...