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But union officials, members of the public and USPS officials are pushing back on the direction of USPS leadership.
November 10, 2021 -
The Postal Service, ramping up its workforce for its peak holiday season, still faces a critical employee shortage as well as persistent challenges retaining new hires.
October 18, 2021 -
States are calling on the Postal Regulatory Commission to hold a public hearing and issue an advisory opinion on the USPS “Delivering for America” plan released in March.
October 08, 2021 -
Workhorse Group, an electric vehicle company on the Postal Service's shortlist to manufacture its next-generation delivery vehicle fleet, is ending its legal battle against USPS and contract award recipient Oshkosh Defense.
September 15, 2021 -
USPS in the memo encourages all employees “who wish to get vaccinated” to do so, but the USPS workforce is under no obligation to get the vaccine.
August 30, 2021 -
The Postal Service is gearing up to fill a significant number of supervisor positions left vacant as part of a recently lifted hiring-and-promotion freeze, in order to prepare for this year’s peak holiday season.
August 24, 2021 -
Two of President Joe Biden’s picks to serve on the USPS Board of Governors pushed back strongly on USPS plans to slow first-class mail and about a third of first-class packages.
August 06, 2021 -
The Postal Service, as an independent agency, is setting its own rules on masks and vaccines apart from the rest of the federal workforce, but is seeing an uptick in employees who need to quarantine as the delta variant of COVID-19 presents new challenges for the agency.
August 03, 2021 -
The agency said employees who are not fully vaccinated must still wear a mask in situations where they can’t maintain a six-foot distance. However, the agency said it will not require any employee to provide proof of vaccination.
July 26, 2021 -
The Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to raise rates later this summer, after lawmakers asked the agency to postpone the increase.
July 20, 2021 -
A Senate measure would bolster safety for when feds returned to the office. This and more updates from WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller.
July 19, 2021 -
Postal Service and Justice Department attorneys are asking a federal court to dismiss an electric vehicle company's bid protest over USPS's next-generation delivery vehicle contract, on the grounds that the vendor failed to exhaust all of its administrative appeal options before filing the bid protest in June.
July 12, 2021 -
House Democrats and Republicans are telling the Postal Service to push a price increase on its mail products from the end of this summer to at least January 2022.
July 02, 2021 -
Workhorse alleged the USPS vehicle award recipient submitted a prototype vehicle “entirely different” than the one selected for production, and that the winning design “skipped the prototype phase altogether.”
June 29, 2021 -
Chief Retail and Delivery Officer Kristin Seaver, a USPS executive vice president and its former chief information officer, will retire from the agency on Aug. 28 after a nearly 30 years.
June 22, 2021