If you’ve ever wondered why some letters arrive in a couple of days while others seem to take forever, you’re not alone. Maps showing United States Postal Service (USPS) First-Class Mail delivery times across the U.S. reveal just how much location matters.
Postal crimes are almost a daily event. These are the ones we found today
Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to the newly-appointed Postmaster General, David Steiner, urging him to course correct the unreliability and delays Missourians have experienced from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) under his predecessor.
But if you want to send a love letter, a bill, a care package, or even an order of fast-food French fries to a sailor traversing Michigan’s waterways, remember 48222. It’s the only non-military “floating” postal code in the country, and it’s based right here in Michigan on the J.W. Westcott II mail boat.
Delivery reliability improved for the agency’s Ground Advantage product but faltered for most other categories, per a report from the USPS Office of Inspector General.
The Postal Service is reminding employees and contractors to beware of brushing scams, which can lead to identity theft, compromised accounts and increased spam.
The Leadership Institute is an intensive three-week educational program, held one week at a time over a three-month period
ATLANTA – Employees at the U.S. Postal Service’s Atlanta local processing center say they have been working without air conditioning for weeks, enduring sweltering conditions during some of the hottest days of July.
In this plan, there is a subsection called the Regional Transportation Optimization (RTO) plan, which aims to reduce the number of delivery trips and mail collections at most USPS facilities farther than 50 miles from a processing plant.
The program is in place each year from April 1 through Oct. 31 and is triggered at any other time when weather reports issued by the National Weather Service for a particular work location indicate that the outdoor heat index temperatures are expected to exceed 80 degrees Fahrenheit during a workday or work shift.