Postal Service

The big carriers such as FedEx, UPS and Amazon make lots of deliveries, and none of those packages are being shipped for “free.”

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...

The U.S. Postal Service is also actively recruiting personnel, aiming to increase staffing and improve service.

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…

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.

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

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.

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…

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.

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.

The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for records about widespread delays to mail delivery.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

President Donald Trump is making clear why he opposes extra money for the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service

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...