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...
Jersey City‘s chief prosecutor is taking on the United States Postal Service. He and area residents say mail carriers have been taking advantage of parking in the city with no penalties, CBS2’s John Dias reports. Neither snow nor rain nor lack of parking is stopping mail carriers from getting mail to Jersey City...
Beginning March 13, 2020, the United States Postal Service (USPS) and Military Post Offices will stop accepting handwritten customs forms on packages destined for international addresses. Customers mailing packages from Military Post Offices to international addresses must use either their Click-n-Ship account or the USPS Customs Form Online tool to create...
For years successive postmasters general have pleaded with Congress to give the United States Postal Service greater authority to set stamp prices. For just as long Congress has failed to come to the Postal Service’s rescue. On Dec. 5, 2019, the Postal Regulatory Commission, a five-member panel that can control stamp prices,...
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...
Mailing packages from military post offices is about to become more of a hassle following a new U.S. Postal Service rule that is doing away with handwritten customs declaration forms. Beginning March 6, clerks at military post offices overseas will require customers to use an electronic version of the PS Form...