A mail carrier in Ohio was fatally shot in his postal van over the weekend in what police believe was a targeted attack. Jonte Davis, 33, was wounded “while inside his U.S. postal van by a suspect in another vehicle,” Warren police said Sunday on Facebook. Officers said they responded to a report of shots […]
U.S. Postal Service reviewing plan to move part of Brockton mail processing facility out of Mass. The U.S. Postal Service is exploring a plan that would move parts of its mail processing operations out of Brockton and into Rhode Island. The proposal is part of the USPS ten-year Delivering for America plan that aims to […]
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said Thursday he will nominate former Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to serve on the U.S. Postal Board of Governors after lawmakers had urged action. Earlier this month, Reuters first reported more than 80 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives had written Biden urging him to […]
FedEx maintains 114 Boeing 757-200 freighters in its fleet. These two are between flights at Fort Worth Alliance Airport in Texas. UPS, by contrast, has 75 of the same aircraft. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) FedEx would benefit from the partial, or complete, loss of its huge contract with the U.S. Postal Service because it would force […]
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Ukrposhta plans to automate 100% of its logistics capacities to abandon manual sorting and increase productivity and quality of sorting eightfold by mid-2024, Ukraine’s national post reported on Facebook on Feb. 15. Read also: Ukrposhta overcomes border obstacles with rail delivery for international parcels “Ukrposhta has completed the installation of automated sorting lines at the […]
The U.S. Postal Service announced sweeping plans Tuesday to reduce greenhouse emissions by diverting more parcels from air to ground transportation, boosting the number of electric vehicles, cutting waste sent to landfills and making delivery routes more efficient. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy described a mix of environmental initiatives and cost-cutting business practices that together would […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than 80 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday urged President Joe Biden to nominate two candidates to open seats on the U.S. Postal Board of Governors, complaining about slow rates of delivery and increased costs. The letter, led by Representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the committee overseeing […]
A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier collected more than $156,000 in disability payments after reporting she severely hurt her ankle delivering packages — but then she was caught walking around Walt Disney World, federal authorities said. The New Jersey woman lied on several disability claims saying she hadn’t “worked or had outside employment for extended […]
Jan. 26—BEMIDJI — After reports of mail delays and poor working conditions at the United States Postal Service gained local and national attention in November, with a special focus on the Bemidji Post Office, the USPS Office of the Inspector General has announced that an audit will be performed on the Minnesota-North Dakota Postal District. […]
A brazen broad daylight heist earlier this week at a United States Post Office in Orange County was captured on camera when thieves nearly ran down a postal worker as they tried to get away with a haul of mail. Cellphone footage of the incident posted to Instagram shows thieves in a dark-colored four-door sedan […]
The inspection arm of the United States Postal Service said Wednesday that it is launching an investigation into delivery delays and other issues across the entire Minnesota and North Dakota postal district — on the same day the agency released audit reports detailing widespread problems at four east metro post office facilities. The USPS Office […]