The federal government’s backlog of pending retirement claims hit the highest level since the COVID-19 pandemic last month, as tens of thousands of federal workers who accepted the Trump administration’s so-called deferred resignation program.
The former postmaster at the Ridgway Post Office has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to methamphetamine and fentanyl charges in Posey County, Indiana.
Officials said the man’s wife called police to tell them that he hadn’t returned home from work. Firefighters went to the facility and found him stuck in the mail handling machine.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.) introduced the Upholding a Secure Postal System (USPS) Act to direct the U.S. Comptroller General to submit a report to Congress on nationwide mail theft trends and the security of postal property.
A former U.S. Postal Service mail handler was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after a joint investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG) into multiple St. Louis metropolitan area mail theft incidents that occurred in late 2023 through 2024
Open season, the annual opportunity for Postal Service employees to make changes to their health coverage or choose a new plan for the year ahead, begins Monday, Nov. 10, and concludes Monday, Dec. 8.
While delivering mail in Warrensburg, NY, recently, Letter Carrier Douglas Olden noticed an older customer sitting on the ground next to a leaf blower.