When then–New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke to the Economic Club of Washington a few years back, he delivered a typical billionaire speech that assigned equal blame to the Democratic Party of President Barack Obama and the Republican Party of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell for a “paralysis” in Washington that was...
A union representing 200,000 U.S. Postal Service employees is suing the mailing agency over an initiative to change the structure of their jobs, saying it is causing workers physical harm and is in violation of a negotiated contract. The National Association of Letter Carriers is seeking an injunction in the U.S....
Expected high winds and heavy rain creating hazardous conditions are likely to limit deliveries of Tuesday and Wednesday editions of the Palatka Daily News and mail delivery. The safety of our staff and readers is our primary concern. The Daily News will print editions focused on Hurricane Dorian coverage both days,...
The Aug. 25 front-page article “For years, fentanyl has flowed across the border and through the mail” omitted the U.S. Postal Service’s aggressive efforts to keep dangerous drugs from entering the United States from China and other countries. The Postal Service is aggressively working to implement the Stop Act. During Congress’s deliberations over...
Chinese drug traffickers had some advice for American buyers of fentanyl: Let us ship it to you by regular mail. It might be slower than FedEx or UPS, but the opioid is much more likely to reach its destination through the U.S. Postal Service. These cyber drug dealers wrote their U.S.-based...
Despite another quarter of surging net losses at the U.S. Postal Service, leadership is all too eager to plunge the agency into even more debt. During its board of governors meeting on Aug. 9, key executives suggested that the USPS be “bold and creative” in saving the agency and paying down the more than $10 billion in...