Despite bitter cold temperatures on Sunday, postal workers and other community members in Minneapolis rallied against recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the Twin Cities, specifically demanding that ICE not use postal property to stage its operations.
The statistical agency said in October that it will test and assess the feasibility of using postal carriers to knock on doors and collect information about households for the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident.
U.S. Representative Dale Strong (R, AL-05) says the United States Postal Service is increasing staff after complaints over mail service in parts of North Alabama.
A bill passed by the House on Thursday includes a provision that would allow electronic delivery to become the default mechanism for providing certain regulatory documents to investors, further reducing the amount of physical mail handled by the financially beleaguered U.S. Postal Service.