The United States Postal Service introduced new service standards on Wednesday that the carrier said would save the federal government at least $36 billion over the next decade.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has proposed that United States Postal Service (USPS) workers take on the responsibility of conducting the national census.
Police Chief Nick Horner said the impact from the crash ejected the postal worker from his vehicle. The vehicle then went over a curb, striking a home.
For the first time since the Eaton Fire decimated Altadena in early January, longtime mail carriers resumed their regular routes, albeit in a completely unfamiliar environment.
The Trump administration has set its sights on the U.S. Postal Service and its 600,000 workers, 91 percent of whom are union members. The USPS is the nation’s largest unionized employer.
On July 26, 1775, about three months after the first clash between American Colonists and British soldiers in Massachusetts, Colonial leaders established a postal system and named Benjamin Franklin its leader — the postmaster general.
Newly published service standards will mean improved service reliability nationwide, with no changes to the current five-day service standard window for First-Class Mail.