The Postal Service is planning to stop collecting the mail at the end of the day at most of the country’s post offices. Rather than being processed overnight, the mail will sit in the back of the post office, waiting for collection the next morning, when the day’s mail is dropped off.
Washington, D.C. – This morning, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy called Senator Collins to update her on the full abandonment of the proposed consolidation of operations in the Eastern Maine Processing and Distribution Center in Hampden.
The U.S. Postal Service said it is canceling plans to move local mail processing out of Tulsa and to Oklahoma City.
For over a year, thousands of our constituents have not had functional mailboxes after USPS suddenly abandoned a longstanding practice of maintaining and replacing their community cluster boxes used for centralized mail delivery.
The PSHB Program is a new, separate program within the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program, which will provide health insurance to eligible Postal Service employees, Postal Service annuitants, and their eligible family members starting January 1, 2025.
On September 15, former President Donald Trump said that the Postal Service could not be trusted to deliver election mail, an attack on the 650,000 dedicated public servants that make up the United States Postal Service.
Donald Trump said that he is thinking about filing a lawsuit to block mail-in balloting for the 2024 election because of issues he had read about with the U.S. Postal Service.
DeJoy said in a letter released on Monday that he would hold a call with state officials to address specific concerns.
NRECA is asking the U.S. Postal Service to reconsider its proposal to curb evening mail service in rural areas, saying the plan would have a “significant and deleterious impact on America’s electric cooperatives.”
The Postal Service is implementing a new strategic approach in its contracts with package consolidators — companies that group together large volumes of packages for entry into various points of the USPS network.