Postal Service

USPS mailboxes are seen in Annapolis, Md.

USPS regulator says ‘no more important time’ for stronger oversight of agency’s sweeping changes

A USPS regulator’s recommendations are nonbinding. But the bipartisan USPS Stop and Study Act would give its decisions more authority.

Workforce

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FEHB, OPM, GAO costs, Stethoscope and money on wooden table representing health care, FEHB plans.

There’s a catch in USPS insurance program for Medicare-eligible retirees

Open Season

USPS supervisors fear ‘exodus’ among their ranks, but data shows high retention

Hiring/Retention

DeJoy: USPS setting higher prices part of changes needed to fix ‘broken business model’

Agency Oversight

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Amid crime surge, USPS law enforcement relying on ‘outdated’ data to justify staffing

Agency Oversight

USPS hits pause on some modernization plans

Federal Newscast

USPS rejects calls for regulator to weigh in on now-paused network modernization plans

Agency Oversight

DeJoy agrees to pause some USPS facility changes until 2025

Agency Oversight

USPS board member urges agency to slow network changes over persistent mail delays

Agency Oversight

USPS loses out on millions of dollars from one postage counterfeiter

Federal Newscast

USPS, delivery network, regulators, USPS OIG

26 senators tell USPS to ‘pause all changes’ to delivery network until regulator’s review

Agency Oversight

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020, file photo, mail delivery vehicles are parked outside a post office in Boys Town, Neb. The U.S. Postal Service says it has cleared the final regulatory hurdle to placing orders for next-generation mail vehicles. That keeps the Postal Service on track for taking delivery of the first of the electric- and gas-powered delivery vehicles next year. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022 that the completion of an evaluation required by the National Environmental Policy Act is an important milestone for postal carriers who’ve soldiered on with overworked delivery trucks that went into service from 1987 to 1994. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Lawmakers troubled by data dearth of USPS trucking contractors’ accidents, fatalities

A recent IG report found USPS does not have a single written policy requiring it to track trucking contractors’ accidents and fatalities.

Federal Newscast

Senator calls out USPS leadership as first-class financial failures

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and six of her colleagues do not think USPS plans to grow the package business are delivering as promised.

Federal Newscast

DeJoy says USPS will fix ‘deteriorating’ service in regions facing network shakeup

Agency Oversight

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said USPS is seeing “significant issues” with on-time delivery in regions where USPS is opening massive new facilities.