The Brown County Sheriff’s Office and a local congressman hope more collaboration with the United States Postal Service can help address rising fentanyl risk in northeast Wisconsin. Last year, the Brown County Drug Task Force seized nearly 10,000 grams of fentanyl — a deadly, synthetic opioid. For comparison, the task force...
The United States Postal Service today released its Second-Year Progress Report on Delivering for America (DFA), the 10-year plan to return the organization to financial sustainability and achieve service excellence while maintaining universal six-day mail delivery and expanding seven-day package delivery. "As we enter the third year of our Delivering for...
The Postal Service is delaying the implementation of a new pay system that would currently lead to many rural carriers seeing significant pay cuts. The National Rural Letter Carriers Association announced last Friday it reached an agreement with USPS to postpone the new pay system, the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS). Read...
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared ready to bolster the ability of employees to obtain accommodations at work for their religious practices in a case involving an evangelical Christian former mail carrier's claim of discrimination against the U.S. Postal Service. The nine justices heard oral arguments in an appeal by...
In yet another attack on the wallets of the American consumer, the U.S. Postal Service has announced that this summer it will raise the rate to mail a first-class letter from 63 cents to 66 cents. Outrageous! But before you start painting your protest placard, you should know that the United...