U.S. Postal Service

Four men face charges in Rhode Island after authorities say they kidnapped a postal worker who they mistakenly believed had stolen a shipment of their cocaine. The Boston Globe reports the men were engaged in a scheme to ship drugs from Puerto Rico to Rhode Island and became convinced the mail man had stolen one of their packages. They held…

Starting Oct. 1, the US Postal Service will be implementing new service standards for first-class mail and periodicals, which could slow down delivery times. Here’s what you need to know.

A former Massachusetts postal worker was sentenced this week for allegedly stealing stimulus payments and other mail from customers along her route. Angela Gomez, 40, of Lynn, was sentenced Thursday to three months in prison and three years of supervised release for stealing mail, including almost $5,000 in stimulus payments, and making over $16,000 in fraudulent purchases and ATM withdrawals….

A Center for Public Integrity investigation finds that the U.S. Postal Service regularly cheats mail carriers out of their pay

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 U.S. Postal Service announced plans this week to consolidate 18 of the country’s major mail sorting facilities in coming months. Officials of the postal workers union say the move could redirect mail in some regions by nearly 100 miles and further delay delivery, NBC News reports.

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is set to implement a new strategic plan that includes higher postage rates and the elimination of first-class tier of mail, two sources familiar with the move told to NBC News on Friday. The plan to eliminate first-class mail, which includes letters, magazines, catalogs, among others, would slow down mail that typically arrives within two days...

Weary postal workers recovering from the holiday surge are hoping the new president will bring a new tone.

New York Yankees Hall of Famer Yogi Berra will be featured on a new stamp this year

A federal judge ordered the Postal Service on Thursday to continue its sweep of mail facilities to check for undelivered ballots in states that have extended vote delivery deadlines, such as North Carolina and Pennsylvania, NBC News reports.

With a week until election day, all eyes are on the U.S. Postal Service as it copes with a massive increase in mail-in voting. More than 1.1 million mail-in ballots have now been received in Massachusetts, according to figures released by the Secretary of State William Galvin’s office on Tuesday afternoon. Nearly 683,000 more have voted in person at early…

A three-month test by of U.S. mail delivery by NBCLX and NBC Owned Television Stations found most First-Class letters still get delivered within 5 days – including official election mail – but delays are much more common now than they were in August or early September.

The U.S. Postal Service is continuing to suffer a summer slowdown. For the second month in a row, reporters at NBC Owned Television Stations, Telemundo and NBCLX tested the Postal Service by mailing hundreds of letters across the country.  The result: About 20 percent of 426 letters arrived later than expected. That’s consistent with a smaller test with 155 letters…

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.

Data obtained by The Associated Press shows Postal Service districts across the nation are missing the agency’s own standards for on-time delivery as millions of Americans prepare to vote by mail

The U.S. Postal Service must live up to its responsibilities to timely process election mail by treating it as a priority, a New York judge ordered on Monday, adding that the agency’s workers should be permitted to make extra deliveries and work overtime near the November presidential election.

A U.S. judge blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail nationwide, calling them “a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” before the November election

President Donald Trump says he’s open to an investigation of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy following published reports that former employees of DeJoy, a major donor to Trump and other Republicans, said they felt pressured to make campaign contributions to GOP candidates.

At Leah Higginbotham’s home in Newton, Massachusetts, something was missing during her daily check of the mailbox earlier this month. “Our mail carrier, who’s awesome, went on vacation,” she recalled. Mail service to her neighborhood was interrupted for a week, Higginbotham said. And with neighbors and family members relying on daily deliveries, Higginbotham said she was disturbed. “My mom,...

As questions linger about election-year changes to post office operations and service, congressional Democrats are trying to figure out how Republican donor Louis DeJoy came to be hired as postmaster general