12.11.14 – President Obama’s Executive Order only applies to “executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government.” The Postal Service will treat December 26, 2014 as a normal business day. Under federal statute, the Postal Service is “an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States,” and not an […]
How many holiday deliveries has the Postal Service made this year? Not sure? If you’re in the middle of Times Square, all you have to do is look up. Beginning Dec. 1, the Postal Service has posted its holiday delivery tallies on two giant billboards in Times Square — at Broadway and 44th Street and […]
USPS OIG Report: Sunday Parcel Delivery Service Operational inefficiencies existed during Sunday parcel deliveries in scanning, sorting, vehicle loading, and using the DRT software in street delivery at 40 of 134 hubs we visited in four districts. In October 2013, the U.S. Postal Service entered into a Negotiated Service Agreement (NSA) with Amazon Fulfillment Inc. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has produced a thorough and comprehensive review of the Postal Service proposal to move to a five day per week delivery schedule. We are pleased to see they agree that the Postal Service is likely to achieve significant cost savings if this change were to be effected and that much […]
USPS posts Solicitation for Repowered Fuel-Efficient Gasoline Long Life Vehicle (LLV) The USPS is actively evaluating various alternative vehicle technologies for the eventual replacement of our fleet of delivery vehicles. Our technology with a good potential is a fuel-efficient gasoline drive train. The USPS intends to award one contract to this solicitation and the Postal […]
Rep. Sandford D. Bishop Jr., D-Ga. , issued the following press release: July 29 2010 Washington, DC – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-2) today sent a letter to the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Representative Edolphus “Ed” Towns (NY-10), regarding the U.S. Postal Service operations transfer from the Columbus […]
It’s not just letters, bills or greeting cards that Joan Sherman of Ronan brings to her postal customers on her daily 110-mile jaunt through rural Lake County. Try checks from cattle sales, prescription medicines, parts for farming equipment — even live chicks once. She won’t be making those deliveries on Saturdays anymore if the U.S. […]
The U.S. Postal Service has an “agreement with AT&T Wireless to provide discounted wireless phone service, phones, and accessories to postal employees.” However, whenever Postal Employees order products online at AT & T’s website, the items are shipped via FedEx or UPS. An AT & T representative explained that shipping costs are cheaper using FedEx […]