In December, amid a crush of packages and record numbers of coronavirus cases, service performance across the U.S. Postal Service network plummeted to the lowest levels in years, with only about 64 percent of first-class mail delivered on time around Christmas. The Postal Service was under scrutiny for months leading up...
The U.S. Postal Service has announced plans to temporarily remove 14 blue mail collection boxes in Los Angeles and Orange counties as a safety precaution ahead of potential protests. The Postal Service joins many other agencies across the nation making plans for protests leading up to and after President-elect Joe Biden’s...
COVID-19 again drove international postal news in the past quarter. Postal services around the globe continue to adapt and innovate to fight the pandemic’s effects. Beyond the pandemic, there were many notable developments. Australia Post suffered fallout from an executive scandal, India entered an agreement with the U.S. Postal Service,...
Jeff Wagner hardly knew what to tell his delivery driver when the man returned one day in late December from a run to the post office in their northern Nebraska town with a trailer still full of newspapers. The post office wouldn’t take them, the driver said, as it had every...
For Mark Baker, the president and CIO (chief idea originator) for The Vermont Flannel Co., delays in deliveries of flannel blankets, pajamas, shirts, hoodies and scarves to customers this holiday season was just one more blow in a year packed with punches. First, his homegrown manufacturing operations had to shut down...