UPDATE 5/19/25: On Sunday night, May 18, the House Budget Committee passed a revised version of the budget reconciliation bill out of Committee. Changes made to the original language proposed by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee included: The increase in FERS contributions for employees hired before 2014 to ...

House Republicans on Monday unveiled a series of changes to a bevy of proposed cuts to federal workers' retirement benefits aimed at making them more politically palatable following bipartisan backlash. But Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said he and some other Republicans would not support the measure on the floor because some of ...

Severe weather moving through the Central and Southern Plains into the Eastern U.S. and the Great Lakes regions in the U.S. (Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia) may impact the processing, transportation, and delivery of mail and packages ...

Ruralinfo note: Although this is from the NALC, I still feel it is good information to know.. NALC Headquarters has been made aware of some of our members receiving invoices from USPS regarding non-payment of health benefit premiums. These should not be ignored, and each instance should be individually investigated ...

Sen. Mark Warner urged OPM’s acting director to ensure identity protection services continue for the more than 21 million individuals affected by the 2015 breach. A top Senate Intelligence Democrat is warning the Office of Personnel Management against cancelling identity protection services that have been provided to current and former ...

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s proposal to overhaul the federal government’s pension benefit system would save nearly $51 billion over the next decade, an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office found. It would constitute major savings to help offset the cost of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” — if ...

A Christian worker has settled for $1 million his religious bias lawsuit against the US Postal Service over his having to work Sundays, a case that went to all the way to the US Supreme Court. Gerald Groff will receive three separate payments from the agency, according to a copy ...

More Attacks on Postal Employee Benefits On April 30, 2025, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability approved significant cuts to federal employee retirement benefits by a vote of 22-21. These extremely harmful cuts will severely impact current and future rural letter carriers and their livelihoods. They include basing a retiree’s annuity ...

Each year, the Postal Service™ designates the third full week of May as “Mailbox Improvement Week” to encourage customers on city motorized, rural, or contract delivery service routes (formerly highway contract box delivery routes) to examine and, where necessary, improve the appearance of their mailboxes. Neat, attractive mailboxes make a significant contribution ...

Somewhere in America, a retired mail carrier just did a double take, and not because someone put the flag up on the mailbox. Jeep’s getting weird again, and this time it’s by turning a Gladiator into something that looks like it delivers packages and wrangles rattlesnakes. Meet the Kestrel, an up-armored ...

She said she was delivering the family’s mail along with a larger package. Normally, she would just leave it in the mailbox or on the front steps, but she didn’t want the package to get wet as the forecast called for rain. When she walked behind the house towards the ...

FedEx’s new deal comes nearly six years after its express business dropped Amazon, and about four months since archrival UPS cut its Amazon business in half FedEx Corp. said that, following about a year of talks, it has a new delivery deal with Amazon.com Inc., which comes some five years ...

The Postal Service has licensed a line of party goods and a new toy mail truck. Created by Colorfull Plates, the new line of children’s tableware features USPS characters Mr. ZIP, the bald eagle B. Franklin and Farley, a blue collection box. The characters star in the “Mail with Mr. ZIP” series ...

Legislation Summary H. Con. Res. 14, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, instructed the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to recommend legislative changes that would decrease deficits by a specified amount over the 2025-2034 period. As part of the reconciliation process, the House Committee ...

The United States Postal Service is one of our nation’s oldest and most trusted institutions, rooted in a 250-year legacy of public service. As the USPS Board of Governors confirms David Steiner as the next Postmaster General, the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association urges him to fully embrace that legacy ...

Postal Service continues to offer great value on affordable shipping with reliable service. No price changes are being made to Priority Mail Express, Domestic Extra Services, International Ancillary Services, or International Products. Pricing actions are part of a balanced approach under Delivering for America, the Postal Service’s 10-year strategic plan ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors today announced that they have chosen David Steiner to be America’s 76th Postmaster General and CEO.  See the statements and reactions from the postal unions ...