Feds accuse mail carrier of scheme to steal $40,000 in checks
A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier has been indicted for bank fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy for allegedly helping steal over $40,000 in checks, the Justice Department said.Jakia...
View ArticleSticky-finger mailman pleads guilty to stealing more than $4,000 in rebate...
A man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to mail theft while he was a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier and was sentenced to four years' probation.Joshua Copas, 38, of Cumberland, Wisconsin,...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Postal Service chief Louis DeJoy fails to deliver promised reforms
It's not for nothing that the U.S. Postal Service has become every taxpayer's idea of what inefficient, bloated government bureaucracies look like. Anyone who has stood in line at the post office for...
View ArticleLetter to the editor: Postal Service faces headwinds
As a retired U.S. Postal Service automation engineer, I am always interested in reading comments about my former employer ("Postal Service chief fails to deliver promised reforms," web, Aug. 14).There...
View ArticleU.S. Postal Service making progress in war on counterfeit postage, postmaster...
The U.S. Postal Service says it's progressing in the war against counterfeit postage, but hasn't said how much the quasi-governmental corporation has lost to forgers, chiefly located in China.As the...
View ArticleCalifornia truck drivers ask Gov. Newsom to sign job-saving bill as...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers, union leaders and truck drivers are trying to steer Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom toward signing into law a proposal that could save jobs as self-driving...
View ArticleBiden administration announces $600M to produce COVID tests and will reopen...
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four...
View ArticlePrice of mail climbs again: Postal service asks for 2-cent increase for...
The cost of mailing a letter or paying a bill would rise to 68 cents in January under a rate increase requested by the U.S. Postal Service Friday.The 2-cent increase in a first-class stamp would take...
View ArticleSaul Bellow, Underground Railroad, space images featured on new U.S. stamps
Author Saul Bellow, leaders of the Underground Railroad and high-definition images from the James Webb Space Telescope highlight the 2024 stamp-issuing program of the U.S. Postal Service, the...
View ArticleU.S. Postal Service runs $6.5 billion deficit after predicting it would break...
The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday said it ran into the red by $6.5 billion in fiscal 2023, which ended on Sept. 30. Operating expense inflation was a big culprit, the federal agency said.Overall...
View ArticleVivek Ramaswamy plans 'fun on the campaign trail' in New Hampshire
One Republican presidential hopeful appears to be in a good mood at the moment.Republican presidential candidate and political outsider Vivek Ramaswamy is heading back to New Hampshire on Saturday for...
View ArticleStamp honoring UCLA's John Wooden to be released in 2024
LOS ANGELES — A limited-edition stamp honoring the late UCLA basketball coach John Wooden will go on sale early next year.The U.S. Postal Service announced the stamp on Thursday. He is the second...
View ArticleFeds are buying our text messages and email
“The Framers ... conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.” — Justice Louis Brandeis...
View ArticlePostal Service, once chided for slow adoption of EVs, announces plan to cut...
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...
View ArticleU.S. Postal Service plan to downsize mail hub in Nevada slammed after Sierra...
RENO, Nev. — A U.S. Postal Service plan to downsize a regional mail hub in Reno and move package and letter processing to Sacramento, California, already had Nevadans worried Monday about service...
View ArticleFree at-home COVID test program to end Friday
The government will stop sending free COVID tests to American homes after Friday, the U.S. Postal Service said on its website.The program, which started in January 2022, has had previous stops and...
View ArticleTwo mail carriers robbed at gunpoint in Denver
A pair of U.S. Postal Service mail carriers were robbed at gunpoint in two separate incidents in Denver Monday. Authorities say one group of suspects is responsible.At around 5 p.m., two of the...
View ArticleUPS to become primary air cargo provider for the United States Postal Service
UPS will become the primary air cargo provider for the United States Postal Service.The Atlanta shipping company said Monday that it had received an air cargo contract from the U.S. Postal Service that...
View ArticlePostal Service seeking to hike cost of first-class stamp to 73 cents
First-class letters will cost a nickel more to mail starting July 14 if a proposed U.S. Postal Service first-class rate hike is approved by the independent Postal Regulatory Commission. The cost of a...
View ArticleLetter to the editor: Time for DeJoy to leave
The House and Senate are being asked to create a law that would give the president the authority to dismiss a postmaster general. The reasoning behind it is that if the president has the power to...
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