The U.S. Postal Service has informed employees of the details of their revised roles as they report to new facilities as soon as next month, when many letter carriers will have to commute significantly farther to make deliveries each day. The conversions scheduled to take place in February are set to...
It just got a little more expensive to mail letters in the United States and abroad. The price for first-class Forever stamps increased to 63 cents from 60 cents this week, a 5 percent price jump that stemmed from rising operating expenses and losses for the Postal Service. The change, which went...
The Postal Service would benefit from taking a longer-term approach when investing its cash on hand, the agency’s inspector general said in a new report, clashing with agency leadership over the best approach for its growing reserve of funds. The Postal Service ended fiscal 2022 with $19.6 billion in cash, up...
A cyberattack on the United Kingdom’s largest mail delivery service that has snarled international parcel exports for a week is illustrating the cyber risks for mail services. The incident was first confirmed as a cyberattack on Tuesday by Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson. There are no signs of when the disruption...
Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), spoke to the Consumer Postal Council about a wide array of issues concerning the serious problems USPS faced when he came on board, and his work to transform the organization over the past two-and-a-half years. This has included pushing for the...