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The Postal Service is rolling out the first of its new electric vehicle charging stations, and laying the foundation for a majority-electric fleet. USPS on Monday unveiled its first set of electric vehicle charging stations at the South Atlanta Sorting and Delivering Center (S&DC).
The Postal Service says its competitive package business is growing, following its busy year-end holiday season.
In today's Federal Newscast: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy rejoices over the booming USPS package business. The National Treasury Employees Union sounds the alarm over a potential government shutdown. And with a partial government shutdown a week away, the Senate considers a short-term continuing resolution.
A postal union and the head of a Senate committee overseeing USPS are pressing the agency for more details about its sweeping network changes.
The Postal Service, citing higher costs beyond its control, is falling behind on plans to reach long-term financial stability.
The Postal Service is seeing a surge in mail thefts and letter carrier robberies. But the agency’s watchdog office finds the agency and its law enforcement branch, the Postal Inspection Service, aren’t making full use of their resources to address postal crime.
The Postal Service’s regulator is looking to grow its tiny workforce to oversee some of the biggest changes in recent USPS history.
The Postal Service is looking to cut costs by building up its career workforce and hiring far fewer temporary, seasonal employees to prepare for the year-end holiday season.
The Postal Service is rethinking its approach to hiring, with a renewed focus on getting its new hires to stay longer at the agency.
The Postal Service’s regulator is getting a bigger budget to oversee a nationwide shakeup of the USPS delivery network — but it's not as big of an increase as it expected.
“The Postal Service's strategic plan has the potential to help its operations and revenues, but how well the plan is implemented will affect how much help it provides. The important task of improving the financial condition of the Postal Service remains daunting.”
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday that “more aggressive cost reductions to operations” are needed to keep USPS’ long-term financial goals within reach.
The Postal Service is laying the foundation for electric vehicles to make up a majority of its fleet in less than a decade, a plan that puts the agency well ahead of the Biden administration’s green government goals.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy tells Federal News Network in an interview that USPS may need to hire about 300,000 employees over the next decade just to keep its current headcount. But the overall size of the future USPS workforce is subject to change.