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FILE - A United States Postal Service employee works outside a post office in Wheeling, Ill., Dec. 3, 2021. The nation’s major shipping companies are in the best shape to get holiday shoppers’ packages delivered on time since the start of the pandemic, suggesting a return to normalcy. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Carriers feeling cheery about on-time holiday deliveries

The nation’s major shipping companies are in good shape to get shoppers’ packages delivered on time this holiday season. Carriers like the U.S.
November 21, 2022
This image provided by the U.S. Postal Service shows the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The U.S. Postal Service is honoring her as “an icon of American culture” with a stamp in the new year, seen in this rendering released by the agency on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (U.S. Postal Service via AP)

USPS honoring late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with stamp

October 24, 2022
FILE - A U.S. Postal Service employee works outside a post office in Wheeling, Ill., Dec. 3, 2021. A federal judge has set limits on one of the U.S. Postal Service's cost-cutting practices that contributed to a worrisome slowdown of mail deliveries ahead of the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Federal judge faults Postmaster General DeJoy in mail delays

October 7, 2022
The Montpelier Station railroad depot, built in 1910 by William duPont, is seen from the entrance overpass into the James Madison's Montpelier historic site in Montpelier Station, Va. The United States Postal Service has closed the small Virginia post office over agency management's concerns about its location inside a historic train depot that also serves as a museum about racial segregation. (Clint Schemmer/The Star-Exponent via AP)

Concerns over segregation display led to post office closure

August 17, 2022
FILE - A USPS logo adorns the back doors of United States Postal Service delivery vehicles as they proceed westbound along 20th Street from Stout Street and the main post office in downtown Denver, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. USPS is creating a division to handle election mail issues as part of an effort to ensure swift and secure delivery of ballots for the 2022 midterm election, officials said Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

New USPS election division will oversee mail-in ballots

July 28, 2022

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USPS ready for holiday crush after influx of mail-in ballots

November 10, 2022

Florida mail carrier dies after being attacked by dogs

August 23, 2022

USPS to request rate increase due to inflation, DeJoy says

August 9, 2022
FILE - In this May 5, 2006, file photo, Pete Seeger talks during an interview in Beacon, N.Y. Seeger, the banjo-playing folk singer whose music was indelibly intertwined with his social activism, was honored Thursday, July 21, 2022 as the latest American musician to appear on a U.S. postage stamp. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Pete Seeger gets own stamp; ceremony planned at Newport Folk

July 21, 2022
FILE - A USPS logo adorns the back doors of United States Postal Service delivery vehicles as they proceed westbound along 20th Street from Stout Street and the main post office in downtown Denver, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. USPS plans to substantially increase the number of electric-powered vehicles it’s buying to replace its fleet of aging delivery trucks, officials said Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

US Postal Service to boost purchases of electric vehicles

July 20, 2022
This image provided by the U.S. Postal Service shows a special series of mariachi stamps designed by artist Rafael Lopez. A first-day-of-issue ceremony was being held Friday, July 15, 2022, during the 30th annual Mariachi Spectacular de Albuquerque in Albuquerque, N.M. (U.S. Postal Service via AP)

Mexican art of mariachi takes center stage on US stamps

July 15, 2022

Indianapolis man pleads guilty to killing mail carrier

July 6, 2022

Air France-KLM latest airline to settle US mail allegations

July 1, 2022
FILE - Delta planes sit at their gates on June 13, 2022, at Salt Lake City International Airport, in Salt Lake City. Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle charges it falsified information about deliveries of international mail, including mail sent to U.S. soldiers overseas. The Justice Department said Thursday, June 30, 2022, that Delta was under contract to the Postal Service when it falsified records about deliveries from 2010 to 2016. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Delta pays $10.5 million to settle post office allegations

June 30, 2022

Man gets 40 years for killing off-duty Mississippi officer

June 22, 2022

Louisville leaders to campaign to put Muhammad Ali on stamp

June 6, 2022

Man accused of stealing $600K in checks from U.S. Mail

May 29, 2022

2 sent to prison for roles in drug trafficking scheme

May 24, 2022

Mail suspended for some northern Mainers due to potholes

May 17, 2022

Postmaster general: Get used to ‘uncomfortable’ rate hikes

May 5, 2022

Mail intended for Kenai Peninsula communities lost in fire

April 27, 2022
President Joe Biden signs the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Watching from left are Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Annette Taylor. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Six-days-a-week mail delivery saved; Biden signs Postal bill

April 6, 2022
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)

Govt watchdog faults Postal Service analysis of new trucks

April 5, 2022
FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020, photo, mail delivery vehicles are parked outside a post office in Boys Town, Neb. One in five of the first batch of next-generation U.S. Postal Service delivery vehicles will be electric-powered, officials said Thursday, March 24, 2022. The Postal Service formally placed its initial $2.98 billion order for 50,000 vehicles with at least 10,019 of them being battery-electric vehicles. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

USPS doubles number of EV delivery trucks in initial order

March 24, 2022
FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020, photo, mail delivery vehicles are parked outside a post office in Boys Town, Neb. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into a U.S. Postal Service plan to replace its aging mail trucks with mostly gasoline-powered vehicles. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

House Dems seek probe of USPS plan for new mail truck fleet

March 14, 2022

USPS: Investigation still open after worker lost arm

March 14, 2022
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., looks on as Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., center, congratulates Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., right, and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, for leading the passage of the Senate bill to reform the U.S. Postal Service, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 8, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Congress passes bill to shore up Postal Service, delivery

March 9, 2022

Former postal worker in Florida convicted of stealing mail

March 3, 2022

Wisconsin union members rally over USPS vehicle contract

February 27, 2022
Robert Fehring, left, arrives at federal court with his attorney, in Central Islip, NY, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. Fehring, 74, a former teacher at Bellport High School on Long Island, who threatened violence against the New York City LGBTQ pride march and numerous other LGBTQ-friendly groups and businesses, pleaded guilty to mailing threatening communications through the postal service, federal prosecutors in New York announced. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP)

NY man pleads guilty to mailing threats to LGBTQ groups

February 24, 2022
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)

USPS gets final signoff to order new delivery vehicles

February 24, 2022

Postal service employee charged in federal bribery case

February 23, 2022
FILE - Sen. Marsha Blackburn, D-Tenn., speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security hearing to examine COVID-19 fraud and price gouging, on Feb. 1, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two widely supported bills are encountering delays in the Senate. The House easily approved the measures last week with broad bipartisan support. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Two popular bills, two problems: It’s never easy in Senate

February 15, 2022

Congress holds field hearing in Baltimore over mail service

February 13, 2022
FILE - A worker carries a large parcel at the United States Postal Service sorting and processing facility Nov. 18, 2021, in Boston. Congress would lift onerous budget requirements that have helped push the Postal Service deeply into debt and would require it to continue delivering mail six days per week under bipartisan legislation that approached House approval Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

House OKs bill easing budget strains on Postal Service

February 9, 2022
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