The first political campaign I worked on took place in 1990. I’d just returned to Massachusetts after serving in the Army. Elections were taking place for state-wide offices, including the governor, attorney general and treasurer. I’d worked in the Massachusetts State House while in graduate school and had met several...
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented historic challenges to the world’s postal operators in 2020’s first quarter. And there is good news as diplomacy leads to renewed postal service with Qatar and technological innovations come to places like Switzerland and Nigeria. These issues ...
The $2 trillion congressional coronavirus assistance package would provide badly needed relief for millions of Americans and businesses but little for one organization already in desperate financial health. The U.S. Postal Service has been in money trouble for years. Now, covid-19, the disease the virus causes, is forcing the quasi-governmental agency into a...
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the U.S., more people are relying on the mail and delivery services to provide them food, medicine and household items. At a time people are social distancing to limit the spread of COVID-19, could you contract the virus from deliveries to your home? And are...
The United States Postal Service released advisories on the state of international mail over the course of three bulletins published March 16-19. Each release addressed the specific situations for countries around the world in response to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. Some nations have suspended some or all mail services, while others are...