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In today's Federal Newscast, the Justice Department is bringing the power of the False Claims Act to the growing challenge of cybersecurity.
In today's Federal Newscast, federal agencies are looking for private sector ideas on collecting vaccine information for their employees.
USPS expects these changes will cut costs and improve efficiency, but these plans have received pushback from Congress, mailers, unions and customers.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit suggested the Postal Regulatory Commission could allow USPS to set even higher prices for the mail products it has a monopoly over in the coming years.
The Postal Service’s regulator is warning USPS that plans to slow down nearly 40% of first-class mail delivery wouldn’t result in “much improvement, if any” to its current financial condition.
The Postal Service is pursuing a new service standard that would slow delivery of about a third of small, lightweight packages.
Attorneys general are telling regulators that the Postal Service should abandon plans that would slow the delivery of nearly 40% of first-class mail.
The Postal Service’s regulatory agency is in the final stretch of drafting an advisory opinion that, if favorable, would give USPS approval to slow first-class mail delivery standards.
USPS this week reported delivering nearly 88% of first-class mail on time in May. That’s about a 10% increase in performance compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2021.
The 2021 Postal Service Reform Act has support from Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Republicans on the committee. Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) are cosponsors of the bill.
The committee will markup the 2021 Postal Service Reform Act in a meeting this Thursday. Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) previewed her bill at a hearing in February, and got Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s feedback on some of its key points.
Everyone in charge of how the Postal Service operates agrees the agency can’t keep running the way it has been for the past decade. But few can agree on what the solution looks like.
A federal judge is allowing USPS to move a “limited” number of high-speed mail-sorting machines between facilities and decommission outdated machines.
The USPS 10-year strategy is designed to relieve the agency of $87 billion in net losses it has posted the past 14 years.