Postal Service Reform Act

Federal prison system, cybersecurity, human capital and more on GAO’s high risk list

16 of the 37 federal programs and governmentwide challenges on GAO’s 2023 high risk list improved, according to the latest biennial report the agency…

Agency Oversight

OPM outlines plan to migrate 1.7M FEHB enrollees into postal-only insurance marketplace

Benefits

(GettyImages/Bloomberg/Luke Sharrett)

USPS reform law sought to ease financial burdens. A year later, what’s changed?

Workforce

Health insurance application form with banknote and stethoscope concept for life planning

OPM expects busy Open Season standing up USPS health insurance marketplace in 2024

Benefits

OPM faces tight timeline to create new USPS health insurance marketplace

Benefits

(AP Photo/David Goldman)

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, file photo, packages wait to be sorted in a Post Office as U.S. Postal Service letter carrier Michael McDonald, gathers mail to load into his truck before making his delivery run, in Atlanta. The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013 it is revamping its priority mail program as part of its efforts to raise revenue and drive new growth in its package delivery business. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

USPS demand for seasonal workers drops after building up career workforce for holidays

Agency Oversight

DeJoy outlines USPS plans to close, consolidate facilities across its delivery network

Facilities/Construction

FILE - A USPS employee works outside post office in Wheeling, Ill., Dec. 3, 2021. A government watchdog said says the U.S. Postal Service's environmental evaluation used for purchases of next-generation delivery vehicles relied on some false assumptions. Jill Naamane from the Government Accountability Office told the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday that the analysis used to determine the mix of gas- and electric-vehicles overstated maintenance costs of electric vehicles and relied on gas prices that don’t reflect the current reality. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

USPS regulator sees dashboards as opportunity to maximize service transparency

All About Data

USPS, GSA expand PIV card services to post offices outside DC area this summer

IT Modernization

USPS regulator hires chief data officer, seeks feedback on performance dashboard

Big Data

House Democrats press USPS to make bigger commitment on electric vehicles

Agency Oversight

‘Long-overdue’ USPS reform bill set to save agency $50B over decade passes House

A long-awaited reform bill that would save the Postal Service about $50 billion over the next decade took a major step forward in Congress.

Agency Oversight

Postal carrier Josiah Morse delivers mail and packages, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in Portland, Maine. The U.S. Postal Service's stretch of challenges didn't end with the November general election and tens of millions of mail-in votes. The pandemic-depleted workforce fell further into a hole during the holiday rush, leading to long hours and a mountain of delayed mail. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

‘We are tired’: USPS employees feel toll from retention challenges

The Postal Service, ramping up its workforce for its peak holiday season, still faces a critical employee shortage as well as persistent challenges retaining…

Workforce

House lawmakers tell USPS to postpone mail rate hike to January 2022

Congress

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.