Postal Service
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The Trump administration seeks to privatize the Postal Service as part of the sweeping government reorganization plan it unveiled Thursday, which may bring with it a significant pay and benefits changes to more than 600,000 USPS employees.
June 22, 2018 -
By August, the postal task force the White House stood up in April is expected to send its recommendations to President Donald Trump.
June 18, 2018 -
While the Trump administration faces pushback from unions and members of Congress over its trio of federal workforce-related executive orders, more than half a million government workers, it turns out, won't fall under the orders' purview.
June 13, 2018 -
As a White House Postal task force conducts a review of the USPS business model, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a few suggestions.
June 08, 2018 -
The mail gets delivered, but at large annual financial losses. Drastics reforms are needed to define a new role for a digital age postal system.
June 07, 2018 -
USPS' rocky start to the first half of the fiscal year comes a month after President Donald Trump signed an executive order setting up a postal task force after claiming the agency is “on an unsustainable path."
May 11, 2018 -
The U.S. Postal Service toughens its policy language on its preference for centralized mail deliveries.
May 07, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a policy update from the U.S. Postal Service emphasized its preference for so-called clustered box units in new housing developments, instead of door-to-door.
May 07, 2018 -
The two primary unions representing postal workers support a bipartisan postal reform bill in March, while the National Active and Retired Federal Employees opposes it for fear it will force retirees to take Medicare Part B.
April 24, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Justice Department settles a lawsuit that alleges Armstrong violated sponsorship agreements his cycling team had with USPS.
April 20, 2018 -
USPS has deployed technology to let carriers know in advance if an address houses a dog. USPS national safety director Linda DeCarlo joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with details.
April 18, 2018 -
After more than a year of complaints that Amazon doesn't pay the U.S. Postal Service a fair rate to deliver its packages, President Donald Trump has created a task to review the agency's business model.
April 13, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new executive order assembles a team to look into how USPS prices its package delivery services.
April 13, 2018 -
Check out the interactive map to see which US city was the worst offender in 2017 on USPS' annual list of dog attacks on postal workers.
April 09, 2018 -
Inconsistent extensions found among more than 62 Postal Service contracts worth at least $520 million
April 06, 2018