CUMBERLAND — U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, said he’s not letting up on applying pressure to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to improve the postal service’s efficiency.

According to a criminal complaint, each of the four men were involved in two armed robberies of postal workers on Nov. 6, 2023. Prosecutors said evidence showed all four of them were present and knew the robberies were going to be committed.

Scores of Bateman neighbors gathered on a closed block of Hillegass Avenue on Aug. 3 for an emotional and festive farewell tribute to their beloved mail carrier, Kerry Jones, who was retiring after 30 years with the postal service.

The agency’s Priority Mail Services volume dropped by 40.7% for the quarter that ended June 30 as shippers moved to more cost-effective options.

On balance, Americans view 13 of 16 federal agencies we asked about more favorably than unfavorably, according to our survey of 9,424 adults conducted July 1-7. Of those 13 agencies, 10 have net favorable ratings of 15 percentage points or more.

After more than a century of address-free living, this seaside tourist destination where Clint Eastwood once presided as mayor is moving ahead with a plan to assign street numbers to homes and businesses.

On June 27, he ran his last route and along the way well-wishers from many of the areas he served stood outside to not only wish him a happy retirement, but to also thank him for going above and beyond the requirements of his job.

The Postal Service did not effectively manage the ePostage program. We identified independent weaknesses in its postage verification system to collect revenue and monitoring program compliance. As a result, it lost estimated annual unrecoverable ePostage revenues.

A new Biden administration initiative to crack down on “unnecessary headaches” for consumers will include plans for employees on the Federal Employees Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits plans to submit out-of-network claims online, alongside other updates.

An inspector general audit has called on the USPS to tighten the controls over the smart phones and other mobile devices it has issued to its employees, after finding that employees had installed applications not related to business purposes and/or that cause security related concerns.

Through an exhaustive investigation, detectives discovered the suspect was a contract mail carrier for the United States Postal Service and used that position of trust to allegedly obtain over a half-million dollars from the person, according to the Pinehurst Police Department in a press release.

The general public’s direct interaction with the US Postal Service has been declining for decades now. How many young people have mailed a letter or picked up a package at the post office? We send emails. We pay bills online. If we need to ship a physical document, we hand it to FedEx Corp. or United Parcel Service Inc.