CHICAGO (WLS) — The USPS Office of Inspector General said Thursday that 19 packages found in a Mt. Greenwood dumpster Tuesday were handled by FedEx and not the postal service. Alderman Matt O’Shea of the 19th Ward initially reported the dumped packages, tweeting that a resident found them in her trash can while taking out […]
12/30/2020 U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has a lot of explaining to do, as some in Washington are saying his removal this fall of mail sorting machines at postal facilities is partly to blame for challenges the U.S. Postal Service faced in getting packages delivered during the Christmas season. Of course, the culprit being blamed […]
12/30/2020 A woman was sentenced in federal court today after stealing cash and hydrocodone tablets from packages while working for the U.S. Postal Service, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. Jennifer Louise Bruce, 44, of Jennings, received a sentence of three years of probation from Chief U.S. District Judge John E. Dowdell. Bruce was convicted of […]
12/30/2020 WASHINGTON, DC — Postmaster General and CEO Louis DeJoy issued the following statement today: “On behalf of the 644,000 men and women of the Postal Service, I want to thank Congress and the Administration for recognizing both the essential role we play in serving the nation and the impact of COVID-19 on our operations. […]
The Postal Service released a post-election analysis outlining the steps it took to deliver a historic number of ballots and Election Mail volume. “Throughout the 2020 election, the Postal Service faced unprecedented challenges, but the commitment of our 644,000 men and women to deliver the nation’s ballots securely and in a timely manner never wavered, […]
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — If you are still waiting for holiday packages to arrive in Maine, you are not alone. The president of American Postal Workers Union Local 458 said there is a holiday shipping backlog. He said hasn’t seen anything like it before. “The volume of parcels we received flooded our facility. It’s difficult to […]
12/28/2020 Due to the bombing in Nashville on December 25, 2020 customers may see impacts to Retail Operations at some Post Offices in the Tennessee district for ZIP Codes starting with: 307, 370-375, 377-381, and 383-385; and the Kentuckiana district for ZIP Codes starting with: 400-406, 408, 409, 411-414, 416-418, 420-427, 471, 476, and 477. […]
The bill signed Sunday had more than 5,000-pages covering government funding, COVID-19 and reams of other unfinished legislation on taxes, education and health care. The bill also includes : Postal Service ($10 billion). Forgives a $10 billion loan to the Postal Service provided in earlier relief legislation. From National Association of Postal Supervisors: On December […]
The USPS has agreed to take several measures to ensure mail-in ballots arrive on time ahead of the Georgia Senate runoff election, The Washington Post reported. As part of the agreement between the agency and civil rights groups, the US Postal Service will treat ballots as express mail if they are in a processing plant […]
A tractor-trailer carrying postal service packages crashed on Interstate 77 south outside Statesville late Thursday morning. The driver of the truck told troopers he was carrying approximately 50,000 pounds of United States Postal Service packages, the Record & Landmark of Statesville reported. Many of those packages, troopers said, are scattered in the woods at the […]