Neither rain nor snow nor hail nor sleet – or even the new Juneteenth federal holiday – will stop the mail. Mail delivery will go on as scheduled on Friday and Saturday even though Friday is a federal holiday under a new law signed Thursday by President Joe Biden. Biden gave federal...
If you thought 2020 was bad, it was even worse for letter carriers. With National Dog Bite Awareness Week having begun on Saturday and continuing through to June 18, the United States Postal Service released its annual report about how many of their employees were attacked by dogs. “From nips and bites...
Twenty-three postal stakeholders gathered to discuss the many important issues involving the U.S. Postal Service. These include the Postal Service’s plans to raise first-class mail prices by an average of 7 percent above the rate of inflation and plans to significantly lengthen mail delivery times by reducing first-class mail delivery...
The Postal Service’s regulatory agency is in the final stretch of drafting an advisory opinion that, if favorable, would give USPS approval to slow first-class mail delivery standards. USPS officials told the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) on Wednesday its proposed changes would affect nearly 40% of first-class mail volume, and would...
If the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) pension and retiree health benefit plans really need to be funded separately from other government entities, this should be done properly. Otherwise, they should be returned to the government’s retirement program. And USPS’s overpayments should be returned to USPS. Instead, the nation has been left...