At last month’s postal hearing by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Postmaster General Megan Brennan reiterated support for so-called “full Medicare integration” as a major component of a solution to the Postal Service’s financial woes. This innocuous-sounding proposal has been included in every leading postal reform bill...
In case anyone didn’t notice, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is in dire fiscal straits, with $69 billion in net losses since 2007. On April 30, Postmaster General Megan Brennan told the House Oversight and Reform Committee, “Absent legislation and regulatory reform, in all probability, we’ll be out of...
On April 2, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) convened to consider the nominations of Ron A. Bloom and Roman Martinez IV to become Governors of the U.S. Postal Service. Both gentlemen were asked, among other things, about their perspectives on the President’s Task Force Report released...
The U.S. Postal Service is reminding customers in communities along the Boston Marathon route that dozens of collection boxes are being temporarily shut down for the race. The postal service says in the interest of safety and security the blue boxes were sealed Friday and won’t be reopened until Wednesday. The race...
The US Postal Service has announced the creation of a new forever stamp honoring President George H.W. Bush, who died late last year at the age of 94. The USPS statement called the 41st President an "advocate for public service" and said he "guided the United States through the end of the Cold War and...