Apr. 18—Members of Congress have told the U.S. Postal Service they oppose plans to consolidate mail processing centers, warning that the proposals could lead to deteriorating mail delivery. A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday wrote to U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, criticizing the Postal Service’s recent announcement of consolidations and its intent to review […]
Apr. 16—Rep. Jared Golden, of Maine, D-2nd District, introduced legislation on Tuesday to halt the consolidation of mail processing facilities nationwide, taking the step just days after the U.S. Postal Service said it plans to shift some operations from Hampden 130 miles south to Scarborough. “Reducing local mail processing capacity and requiring mail to travel […]
Apr. 15—A federal jury needed less than two hours of deliberation before convicting a former University of New Mexico Lobos football player of robbing a mail carrier at gunpoint in 2022. The announcement of the conviction was made Monday. Rashawn Boyce, 28, was convicted of robbing a postal carrier, stealing a key belonging to the […]
Two Medford elementary school students distributed orange whistles to 70 postal workers Saturday to protect them from danger or possible attacks. Savannah McLaughlin and Adam Costello are in fifth grade at the Brooks School, and came up with the idea after hearing about a postal carrier attacked on Halloween in the city. “If you ever […]
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Inspectors say they found water-damaged mail that went unprocessed for months, and a mail handler who was asleep at the wheel of a forklift after touring a postal service plant near Richmond, where mail is processed for delivery to Hampton Roads. Those were just two of a number of problems […]
By Ananta Agarwal and Deborah Mary Sophia (Reuters) -United Parcel Service will become the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) primary air cargo provider, the company said on Monday, as rival FedEx announced an end to its more than 20-year partnership with the postal service provider. The financial terms of the contract were not disclosed but […]
The U.S. Post Office in Pasco is among the first in the nation to get a high tech update through the 10-year Delivering for America plan. It’s an update that officials hope will speed up Tri-Cities deliveries. A postal service official said the Tri-Cities has the highest package delivery rate in Washington state, apparently a […]
Mar. 28—CHEYENNE — All of Cheyenne’s outgoing mail will be sorted in Denver in the future amid sweeping, nationwide changes in the United States Postal Service. While USPS says this change will result in no layoffs and will save taxpayers money, it does nothing to alleviate some concerns community members and postal workers raised at […]
The family of a 28-year-old Chicago woman fatally shot in Orland Park Wednesday leaves behind three sons ages 10, 6 and 10 months, according to a GoFundMe page created by her family. Mechellea Williams was found shot inside a car at 12:03 a.m. in the 170th block of Redbud Lane, Orland Park police said. Police […]
The German trade union verdi is keeping up the pressure with further strikes ahead of the third round of collective bargaining for the postal bank, Postbank, verdi announced on Thursday. Employees in branches and call centres across Germany are once again being called out on strike for Friday and Saturday, verdi said. “We expect a […]
When the U.S. Postal Service launched Project Safe Delivery last year, officials pledged they would be “doubling down” on their efforts to combat growing rates of letter carrier robberies. The crackdown has led to hundreds of arrests, and robberies slowed toward the end of the year. But, overall, the number of postal carriers who were […]
The U.S. Postal Service is honoring 10 leaders from the Underground Railroad on new Forever stamps, which are being unveiled in a Saturday ceremony in Dorchester County, Maryland. Many leaders of the Underground Railroad, the secret network of those escaping slavery and those who assisted them, remained anonymous. But the figures being honored on the […]