This rural carrier found a customer in distress after noticing his dog was running loose
Rural Carrier Linda Blackmon was delivering mail to the home of an older couple in Tennessee Colony, TX, recently when she spotted their small dog in the front yard.
Knowing this was unusual, she pulled into the driveway.
After she got out of her vehicle, Blackmon heard a faint yell for...
Johnson gives postmaster general until July before requesting resignation
Rep. Dusty Johnson told a crowd it’s time to “turn up the heat” on the U.S. Postal Service following thousands of constituent complaints.
He held a U.S. Postal Service Round Table in Sioux Falls to continue discussions around the growing frustrations with the mail carrier. The round table included frustrated...
Postal regulator limits USPS to once-a-year price hikes for mail through 2030
The Postal Service’s regulator is setting limits on how often the agency can set higher prices for its monopoly mail products.
The Postal Regulatory Commission ruled on Tuesday that the USPS, starting in March, can only raise mail prices once a year. This limit will remain in place through Sept. 30, 2030.
The commission eased...
DOJ: Ban on mailing concealable firearms unconstitutional, can’t be enforced
A nearly 100-year-old federal ban on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, according to an opinion released Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The 15-page opinion concluded that a 1927 law, which made it illegal to use the Postal Service to mail concealable firearms, such...
USPS Reports On-Time Delivery Gains, Higher Customer Satisfaction for Holiday Surge
WASHINGTON — Through large investments in new technology and new logistics planning and execution, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) significantly improved its delivery performance during this past holiday season. Mail items and packages were delivered within 2.5 days on average (16 billion in volume), compared to 2.8 days during the same period last year...
USPS OIG – Grievance Management
Background
The U.S. Postal Service paid out more than $866 million in resolution of almost 3.5 million grievance payments from fiscal years (FY) 2022-2024. Grievances are typically complaints lodged by individual employees or unions about the implementation or interpretation of collective bargaining and local agreements concerning wages, hours, and conditions...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Jan. 19
Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed Monday, Jan. 19.
King helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech. He also helped pave the way for the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act...
