Postal Service contracts can be complex. EMCOR, a major USPS contractor, assigns service calls to subsidiaries that perform work for the agency — a good part of it maintenance and repairs at postal facilities.
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.
USPS service alerts have information for consumers, small businesses and business mailers about postal facility service disruptions caused by weather-related and other natural disasters, special events, or other changes impacting service.