The U.S. Postal Service is considering an overhaul of its mail processing. The proposal would prioritize faster mail delivery for people living within 50 miles of the Postal Service’s largest processing centers, but it would also result in rural mail delivery taking an extra day.

Citing office closures, deteriorating service, and unresponsive administrators, members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation are newly appealing to meet with the U.S. Postal Service’s regional manager.

For days, Amy Gholson tracked a shipment of baby turkeys she ordered from an Ohio hatchery. She kept tabs online as the birds began the more than 500-mile trip to the Gholson home near St. Charles, Missouri, via the U.S. Postal Service.

The U.S. Postal Service is proposing a new plan in order to keep itself afloat, and the plan involves slower mail in rural ZIP codes across the country. But the agency will not say which post offices will be affected.

September is National Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month, and the USPS Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is using the occasion to remind employees of its many resources.

The Charles W. Lindberg Post Office at 825 W. 65th St. was dedicated Aug. 29 during a ceremony across the street from the building.

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion contributed to the war effort in a unique way: by sorting through a three-year backlog of mail (17 million pieces of it!) that hadn’t been delivered to American soldiers far from home.

Per USPS: Carter Scott has walked — or rather driven — the talk and then some. “I believe in safety,” he says. The tractor-trailer operator for the Suburban Processing and Distribution Center in Gaithersburg, MD, has had no preventable incidents since he began his career as a USPS driver in 1979.

The Combined Federal Campaign, the government’s annual workplace charity drive, kicks off Sunday, Sept. 1.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - 91-year-old Cedar Rapids mailman Ernest “Ernie” Topness is retiring this year after 65 years delivering the mail to his community.

Letter Carrier Max Valdivia was delivering mail recently in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, when he spotted a customer face down in his driveway.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — Someone shot a pellet gun Friday at a postal worker in Lincoln, police say.