USPS raises stamp price to 58 cents under DeJoy’s 10-year plan 5.28.2021 – FOX Business reports: “The price increase is part of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan, introduced in March, to reorganize the Post Office and avoid a projected $160 billion loss over the next decade. The initiative includes longer delivery times for some first-class mail, shorter hours for some post offices and more expensive postal rates.” – USPS News Release – Comments (Count) |
USPS Faces Preemptive Backlash to Expected Soaring Price Hikes 5.27.2021 – GovExec reports: “Constrained by inflationary caps, USPS has issued modest price increases of around 2% in recent years. This year, observers expect the hike could be as high as around 7% for First-Class Mail and higher for other products. In a recently released 10-year business plan, postal management said it expected to increase revenue by $35 billion to $52 billion over the next decade directly from rate increases.” – Comments (Count) |
Senators reach bipartisan deal to reform USPS finances, tighten accountability requirements 5.19.2021 – Anchorage Daily News reports: “A bipartisan group of senators is expected to introduce legislation Wednesday to lift significant financial burdens off the ailing U.S. Postal Service while tightening accountability requirements for mail delivery, a major stride toward reform for the agency that has tussled with its balance sheet and reputation for the better part of a year. The bill, identical to a version that’s advanced in the House, would repeal $5 billion a year in mandatory retiree health care expenses and require future postal worker retirees to enroll in Medicare. Advocates say the measures will save the agency $30 billion over the next decade.” – CNN: Bill could actually pass – Best shot at USPS reform gets better with 20 senators supporting – Senators expected to announce deal – Group of US senators backs $46 billion in relief for Postal Service – Comments (Count) |
New Postal Overhaul Measure Wins Support From Key Republican 5.12.2021 – GovExec reports: “The bill includes previously bipartisan provisions to shift more postal retirees to Medicare for their health care and require most postal workers to select postal-specific health care plans. The measure, like all recent attempts at postal reform, would take onerous payments toward health care benefits for future retirees off the agency’s balance sheets.” – NALC Statement – Bipartisan USPS reform bill with a ‘good chance’ of becoming law passes House committee – APWU Applauds – Paid parental leave for USPS employees included in postal reform bills – House panel advances bipartisan postal overhaul measure – House committee moves ahead – Postal-only health plan within FEHB that would be fully integrated with Medicare – 2019: Concerns Raised on Compelling Retirees to Enroll in Medicare – 2018: “Balancing the books of the USPS on the backs of postal retirees” – Comments (Count) |
USPS Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2021 Results 5.07.2021 – PR Newswire reports: “The U.S. Postal Service today announced its financial results for the 2021 second quarter ended March 31, reporting a net loss of $82 million, compared to a net loss of approximately $4.5 billion for the same quarter last year, as a pandemic surge in demand for package deliveries was not enough to offset increased operating costs and a decline in revenue from mail services.” – NALC Statement – USPS Narrows Quarterly Loss – DeJoy Charges Ahead Despite Beating Financial Projections – Comments (Count) |
USPS opts for a reduction in force for non-union employees in agency restructuring’s final phase 5.04.2021 – Federal News Network reports: “The Postal Service is moving ahead with a non-voluntary reduction in force of non-bargaining unit employees after sending voluntary early retirement offers to its eligible management workforce. Ahead of the layoffs and reassignments, USPS will send a second round of Voluntary Early Retirement offers to eligible employees working at its headquarters, headquarters-related facilities, area offices and district offices.” – USPS: Final Restructuring Phase – GovExec: Postal Service to Issue Layoff Notices Later This Month – Comments (Count) |
5/19/21 |
Wayne County asking “Where’s the mail” – Comments (Count) |
Complaints continue to pile up about local USPS service – Comments (Count) |
Postal bill advances with bipartisan support – Comments (Count) |
5/18/21 |
Douglas F. Carlson seeking USPS performance scores from 1998 to present (PDF) – Comments (Count) |
Local mail carrier set to retire after 54 years of delivering parcels – Comments (Count) |
Longtime Wacissa postal worker saying goodbye to job – Comments (Count) |
How a military vehicle contractor plans to make a USPS truck that lasts ‘almost forever’ – Comments (Count) |
Driver killed after striking postal truck, overturning in Brooklyn – Comments (Count) |
House lawmakers unveil bill to end ban on Postal Service shipments of alcohol – Comments (Count) |
New Heritage Breeds Forever Stamps Honor Genetic Diversity in Farm Animals – Comments (Count) |
Amazon pressed USPS to install mailbox used in unionization election – Comments (Count) |
5/17/21 |
Congress hints, Postal Service reform might be a real possibility this year – Comments (Count) |
A beloved post office in Hyde Park is closing. The Austin neighborhood wants to know why – Comments (Count) |
The USPS might actually get its $8 billion to electrify future mail trucks – Comments (Count) |
Hope for repairing Trump, DeJoy damage to post office as new board members are seated – Comments (Count) |
5/16/21 |
Amazon is seeking to hire 75,000 in a tight job market – Comments (Count) |
Cleveland U.S. Post Office sorting facility loses power – Comments (Count) |
USPS Lost Grandma – Comments (Count) |
5/15/21 |
Amid councilman’s protests, USPS opens mobile post office in Cleveland community – Comments (Count) |
USPS hiring in San Diego County – numerous vacancies available – Comments (Count) |
Amazon worker alleges security had keys to mailbox used in union vote – Comments (Count) |
USPS reveals Christmas, Otter in Snow stamps – Comments (Count) |
5/14/21 |
The remains of a Holocaust survivor lost in the mail – Comments (Count) |
COVID continues to have an impact on mail delivery, USPS says – Comments (Count) |
USPS OIG: Delayed Mail at the Phoenix P&DC – Comments (Count) |
5/13/21 |
USPS Names Chief Human Resources Officer Tulino as Deputy Postmaster General – Comments (Count) |
Detroit Postal Workers Push to Dump DeJoy and His Ten-Year Plan – Comments (Count) |
Moorhead police disable Facebook page after post office “First Amendment” confrontation | Video – Comments (Count) |
Final delivery: Patti Hobgood retiring from USPS – Comments (Count) |
5/12/21 |
USPS OIG: How Do Employees Absent Without Leave Affect the Postal Service? – Comments (Count) |
Cleveland residents frustrated by no reopening date of closed post office – Comments (Count) |
MAGA-Hat Wearing White Ex-Postal Worker’s Reverse Bias Claim OK – Comments (Count) |
USPS worker reveals why some mail carriers are leaving dryer sheets in mailboxes – Comments (Count) |
Over 50 Democrats Support $8 Billion Fund for USPS to Electrify Its Fleet – Comments (Count) |
5/11/21 |
Democrats’ Postal Reform Bill Would Give DeJoy a Free Hand – Comments (Count) |
Postal worker assaulted while delivering mail in San Tan Valley – Comments (Count) |
John Oliver on why the Postal Service is on ‘the brink of collapse’ – Comments (Count) |
5/10/21 |
House panel to take up Postal Service reform measures – Comments (Count) |
Detroit: As frustration grows over delays, USPS looks to hire more workers – Comments (Count) |
CBS News: On-time delivery plunges at USPS – Comments (Count) |
Military Appreciation Month: USPS to Honor Veterans With a Tumbler and Letter of Appreciation – Comments (Count) |
NALC: Emergency Federal Employee Leave Update – Comments (Count) |
The UK’s Postal Service Launches Drone Deliveries to Remote Islands – Comments (Count) |
Democrats Want $8 Billion to Electrify US Postal Service Deliveries – Comments (Count) |
5/09/21 |
My beloved mother died. Then she got lost in the mail – Comments (Count) |
COVID: Out-of-work Bay Area bartenders turned to delivering mail during pandemic – Comments (Count) |
5/08/21 |
Japan Post Office to release commemorative Pokemon stamps based on original trading cards – Comments (Count) |
DFW: Arlington mother and son shipped meth across the U.S. in the mail – Comments (Count) |
Detroit woman says her apartment complex hasn’t received mail in three weeks – Comments (Count) |
Postmaster General Vows to Consider ‘Critiques’ as USPS Announces Tanking Performance in Recent Months – Comments (Count) |
5/07/21 |
Former postal worker fined $200 for failing to deliver over 700 pieces of mail – Comments (Count) |
Despite promises to stop parking in public spaces, Postal trucks still clog spots in Belmont Cragin – Comments (Count) |
USPS Turns to AI at the Edge to Boost Package Processing – Comments (Count) |
5/06/21 |
Mapping out the changes in USPS service standards – Comments (Count) |
How the pandemic reignited my love affair with the USPS – Comments (Count) |
Downtown Topeka Post Office has chipped paint, cracked windows and broken elevators. That’s just what we can see, so what can be done? – Comments (Count) |
Canada: Post Office to expand ‘financial services’ – Comments (Count) |
Residents living in 8th fastest growing county in US say Postal Service is overwhelmed – Comments (Count) |
5/05/21 |
eBay CEO Makes Case for USPS Reliability, Reduced Regulations – Comments (Count) |
USPS settles with Nike over its Postal Service-inspired Air Force 1 shoe – Comments (Count) |
GAO questions sustainability of USPS – Comments (Count) |
USPS OIG: Negotiated Service Agreement Price Tables Sent Unsecured to Vendors – Comments (Count) |
Detroit protest held over mail delivery struggles by postal service – Comments (Count) |
Federal investigation underway into dumping of undelivered mail in Ferguson – Comments (Count) |
5/04/21 |
One Memphis community has not received a single piece of mail in month – Comments (Count) |
Woman details sexual harassment at Corpus Christi postal facility – Comments (Count) |
USPS has supply of cooling neck gaiters for employees – Comments (Count) |
5/03/21 |
Police cruiser, postal truck involved in crash – Comments (Count) |
USPS truck involved in 3-car crash in Wake Forest – Comments (Count) |
USPS Defends Slower Mail Proposal Before Its Regulator – Comments (Count) |
French Reunion: the postmen of the peaks – Comments (Count) |
Raw Story: Louis DeJoy ordered postal inspectors to monitor Americans social media posts – Comments (Count) |
5/02/21 |
About 40 percent of post offices operate in the red. Could banking services bring in more money? – Comments (Count) |
USPS Cleveland seeks to hire 200 at Sunday job fair – Comments (Count) |
‘Disrespectful’ Cresskill postal clerks to get mandatory retraining after complaints – Comments (Count) |
5/01/21 |
Post Office halts delivery to Theodore neighborhood, blaming dogs chasing after mail truck – Comments (Count) |
Gaetz, House Republicans introduce bill to defund Postal Service covert operations program – Comments (Count) |
USPS OIG: International Election Mail Observations for the 2020 General and 2021 Georgia Senate Runoff Elections – Comments (Count) |