The Postal Service says it’s getting operations on the right track after years of pandemic-related challenges. But the American Postal Workers Union says the agency remains too short-staffed to meet service standards, leading to burnout and a high rate of employee turnover. APWU held nationwide protests in front of postal facilities and...
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office and a local congressman hope more collaboration with the United States Postal Service can help address rising fentanyl risk in northeast Wisconsin. Last year, the Brown County Drug Task Force seized nearly 10,000 grams of fentanyl — a deadly, synthetic opioid. For comparison, the task force...
The United States Postal Service today released its Second-Year Progress Report on Delivering for America (DFA), the 10-year plan to return the organization to financial sustainability and achieve service excellence while maintaining universal six-day mail delivery and expanding seven-day package delivery. "As we enter the third year of our Delivering for...
The Postal Service is delaying the implementation of a new pay system that would currently lead to many rural carriers seeing significant pay cuts. The National Rural Letter Carriers Association announced last Friday it reached an agreement with USPS to postpone the new pay system, the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS). Read...
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared ready to bolster the ability of employees to obtain accommodations at work for their religious practices in a case involving an evangelical Christian former mail carrier's claim of discrimination against the U.S. Postal Service. The nine justices heard oral arguments in an appeal by...