The U.S. Postal Service is experimenting with self-driving trucks to move mail across state lines. The USPS has partnered with San Diego-based TuSimple on a two-week pilot programfocusing solely on a 1,000-mile route between Dallas and Phoenix. TuSimple's chief product officer Chuck Price told NPR the test runs, which began on Tuesday, will...
Mail trucks are bursting into flames at a rate that would trigger a massive recall if they were passenger vehicles. More than 120 fires have occurred in the past five years, including 12 in the first four months of this year. News and social media photos show the trucks burning intensely, often...
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...