The Postal Service is falling short of its goal to start turning around its financial losses this year, and reported a $2.5 billion net loss for the second quarter of fiscal 2023.
The Postal Service is telling its 635,000-employee workforce that an ongoing effort to consolidate its delivery network won’t result in layoffs.
Perspectives are mixed on whether the Postal Service Reform Act has put USPS on a path to leave its long-term financial woes in the past.
The Postal Service’s latest financial report shows a difficult start to the calendar year, considering the agency just wrapped up its busy year-end holiday peak season.
The Postal Service is laying the groundwork for its plans to operate a next-generation delivery vehicle fleet that’s mostly electric.
The Postal Service is working with its Postal Inspection Service on ways to address an uptick in robberies of letter carriers.
The Postal Service is expanding plans for electric delivery vehicles in its future fleet, a strategy that puts the agency ahead of the Biden administration’s net-zero emissions goals across the federal government.
The Postal Service, a longtime supporting player in voting thrust into the spotlight since its major role in the 2020 election, may get some additional support from a bill that’s headed for a House floor vote.
The Postal Service, having struggled with employee availability issues since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, is telling Congress it has the stable workforce it needs to meet high expectations for this year’s holiday season.
The Postal Service is falling behind on a plan to reverse its long-term financial losses, citing record inflation and what it calls unsustainable contributions to a federal retirement fund that covers some postal retirees.
A federal judge ruled that USPS policy changes, including a decision to limit late and extra truck trips between mail processing plants and post offices, were the “primary factor” behind reduced mail service ahead of the 2020 election.
USPS is looking to raise the price of a first-class stamp to 63 cents on Jan. 22, 2023, up from the current price of 60 cents, which went into effect this July.
In today's Federal Newscast — Special delivery: Louis DeJoy brings joy to postal managers with a 3% pay raise. There appears to be no end in sight trying to attract qualified Americans to join the military. And another Bureau of Land Management office votes to join the union.
The Postal Service is giving its supervisors, managers and postmasters a pay raise that will hit their paychecks starting in October.
A government shutdown in three weeks is unlikely, but Congress still has to work out details of a continuing resolution. Then there's the matter of that $47 billion in immediate spending, the White House has requested for COVID relief and a few other things.