Following approval from the House and Senate, President Donald Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201). As the country is experiencing a national crisis, Americans need to be reassured they will have access to medical testing for COVID-19 that will not cause an undue financial burden. Within the bill, there is explicit […]
It’s time once again to stand up for the most popular government agency of all, the one that curiously has come under the most consistent attack by the Trump administration and its congressional henchpersons. We’re talking about the U.S. Postal Service. According to a survey last year by the Pew Research Center, 90% of the […]
According to the Washington Post U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan plans to retire in January, officials said Wednesday, following months of complaints from President Trump that the Postal Service was losing too much money and should be charging retail giant Amazon more for package delivery. Trump had told aides repeatedly earlier this year that he […]
October 15, 2019 BEIJING (AP) — Fees paid by China to the United States and other countries to deliver packages will nearly triple through 2025 under an agreement by the global postal union following complaints by Washington, the Chinese post office said Tuesday. Payments will rise 27% next year and by 164% in total through […]
Unions likely to face evictions, severe restrictions on official time. he Trump administration has directed agencies to begin implementing the president’s executive orders targeting federal employee unions and their disciplinary processes, with some departments already moving forward with threats to evict the labor groups from their government offices. The memorandum from Office of Personnel Management […]
9/25/2019 Today in Geneva, Switzerland, delegates to a Special Congress of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) reached an agreement on reforms to the way postal operators pay each other for delivering international mail—the so-called “terminal dues” system. The UPU is the United Nations agency that regulates international mail and has more than 190 members. The […]
The Universal Postal Union agreed to a compromise Wednesday that would allow the United States to set its own inbound postage rates and remain within the organization the Trump administration had previously threatened to leave. Jean-Paul Forceville, the chief negotiator for France’s La Poste, told CNBC earlier that the probability was “pretty high” that a […]
“The Postal Service would like to thank President Trump for his leadership in helping us to negotiate the resolution of an intractable problem with the payment system for the international exchange of small packets that has persisted over many years, and that has been extremely difficult to resolve. We are very pleased that the member […]
The effects of President Donald Trump’s standoff with China could soon be coming to a post office near you, and higher shipping rates for some packages are the likely outcome. GENEVA (AP) — The effects of President Donald Trump’s standoff with China could soon be coming to a post office near you — and higher […]
Business Community Responds to USPS Task Force Report: Recommendations Likely to Make the Situation Worse for Prices, Services & Affordable Access; Focus Should be on Reforming the Prefunding of Retiree Benefits Washington, D.C. (December 4, 2018) – The Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service (C21), an organization of public and private companies, trade associations […]