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Why ‘Free' Shipping Isn't Free
The big carriers such as FedEx, UPS and Amazon make lots of deliveries, and none of those packages are being shipped for “free.”
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Complaints About Mail Service Prompt USPS Hiring Push, Proposed Reforms
The U.S. Senate is expected to take up legislation passed by the U.S. House to overhaul the Postal Service, which has struggled with finances and complaints about performance due to staffing challenges. “It’s been a real problem,” Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, said of complaints from around the state of declining performance by the U.S. Postal Service. Welch was at...
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Complaints About Mail Service Prompt USPS Hiring Push, Reforms
The U.S. Postal Service is also actively recruiting personnel, aiming to increase staffing and improve service.
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Postal Service Pressed by Staffing Shortages Will Deliver COVID-19 Tests
Not even the pandemic kept them from their appointed rounds, but a postal system dealing with the continued impact caused by the omicron variant is about to face a new stress — tens of millions of at-home COVID tests. “We know this is our job and we persevere, we get it done,” Scott Hoffman, the president of the Metro Area…
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Postal Service Pressed by Staffing Shortages Will Deliver COVID-19 Tests
With the government set to send out free rapid COVID tests across the country, there are concerns about overwhelming a USPS already struggling with staffing shortages.
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See All the 2021 Holiday Postage Stamps From USPS
The Postal Service has a diverse collection of holiday stamps available from previous years, including Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Diwali and Eid.
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New USPS Changes Start Friday: Slower Delivery Times, Temporary Price Hikes
The U.S. Postal Service is making several changes that’ll impact mail delivery time and the cost of shipping packages during the 2021 holiday season
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Postal Service Looks to Raise First-Class Stamp to 58 Cents
The U.S. Postal Service wants to raises rates on first-class stamps from 55 cents to 58 cents as part of a host of price hikes and service changes designed to reduce debt for the beleaguered agency.
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USPS Offers Reward for Information on Waltham Attacker
The United States Postal Inspection Service is offering up to a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of an attacker behind a series of attacks in Waltham, Massachusetts. The announcement comes after a United States Postal Service letter carrier was a victim of an attack on Nov. 20. The serial attacker is responsible for 11 recent…
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NBC Tests USPS Speeds Before Election But Finds Little Sign of Improvement
The U.S. Postal Service isn’t delivering mail as quickly as it should, but the delays don’t appear significant enough – at this time – to disrupt an election, according to a September test by NBCLX and NBC Owned Television Stations.
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The Myth: The U.S. Postal Service Is Supposed to Be Profitable
President Trump has slammed the U.S. Postal Service for losing money. But as NBCLX’s Chase Cain explains, the USPS is designed to be a service, not a for-profit business. In this episode of our series “The Myth,” we’re debunking the fiction of a profitable post office.
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House Subpoenas Embattled Postal Service Leader Over Delays
The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for records about widespread delays to mail delivery.
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What You Need to Know: Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against The USPS
Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director for Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, breaks down the lawsuit against the Unites States Postal Service as confusing persists over voting by mail.
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Tough Choices for GOP Over a Postal Service Trump Belittles
Congressional Republicans in tight races this fall are under pressure from both directions as the Postal Service has been thrust into the middle of election-year politics
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Postal Service Changes Suspended
In a surprise move the Postmaster General has reversed course and suspended controversial changes to the United States Postal Service that many said were aimed at disrupting the upcoming election.
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Ballot Drop Boxes Seen as a Way to Bypass the Post Office
With the Trump administration openly trying to undermine mail-in voting this fall, some election officials around the country are hoping to bypass the Postal Service by installing lots of ballot drop boxes in libraries, community centers and other public places
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Postal Service Halts Some Changes Amid Outcry, Lawsuits
Facing mounting backlash, President Donald Trump’s embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday he is halting some operational changes until after the November elections. Democrats had contended that the changes caused disruptions that threatened mail-in voting, and some states planned to file lawsuits.
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Postal Slowdown Could Put Mail-In Votes In Jeopardy
An unlikely battlefield has emerged in an election season like no other: the U.S. Postal Service. President Trump is drawing sharp criticism for admitting he wants to block billions of dollars in funding for the Postal Service in order to limit mail-in voting during the pandemic.
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Trump Admits He's Blocking Postal Cash to Stop Mail-in Votes
President Donald Trump is making clear why he opposes extra money for the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Demands ‘Corruption' Probe After Report of Amazon Options Purchase by Postal Service Chief Louis DeJoy
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday demanded that the U.S. Postal Service’s internal ethics watchdog investigate what she suggested was “corruption” in the purchase of Amazon stock options by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy after his appointment to that job. The Massachussetts Democrat Warren, in a tweet, wrote that DeJoy’s “investments in @USPS competitors were already deeply problematic.” “But his purchase of @Amazon stock options after his...