Canada Post, in a sign it has lost patience with leadership of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, has asked the Canadian government to put its latest contract offer to employees for a vote.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said the Postal Service is considering how it can raise money by offering logistics service across the government.
Seven post offices in the Philadelphia area are the focus of an audit analyzing several factors, including delayed mail. NBC10 Responds reporter Tracy Davidson has the details and gets reactions from residents and local leaders.
Rep. Angie Craig joined Esme Murphy Sunday to talk about the ongoing issues with USPS deliveries in Minnesota. WCCO reports.
U.S. Representatives Rick Larsen and Suzan DelBene sent a letter to the head of the United States Postal Service saying efforts to increase staffing are insufficient. KING 5 reports.
Omaha police say a cyclist is dead after being hit by a USPS truck. 6 News WOWT reports.
At least four postal workers have been robbed in the last week in Chicago. ABC 7 Chicago reports.
USPS said that the loss of commitments from two highway contract carriers exacerbated the delivery delays. NBC News 9 reports.
A crossing guard said she came face-to-face with two young men who returned fire after at least one person in a car fired shots at them. A mail truck was struck by bullets during the shooting. CBS 2’s Shardaa Gray reports.
USPS Link reports: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the Postal Police Officers Association have reached a tentative agreement on a 66-month contract, covering more than 360 postal police officers represented by the union, reports USPS Link. The tentative agreement is subject to a ratification vote by the union membership, a process that will take […]
The U.S. Postal Service has sent an email reminder to P.O. box holders to renew before January 22nd, 2023 as fees paid on or after that date are subject to new rates: Advance Notice to POBOL PO Box Customers – January 2023 Price Change. If your PO Box renewal fees are due in January, and […]
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has shared a 2023 calendar image that shows the 26 paycheck dates for Postal Service employees. Every month will have two paydays, except for March and September, which will have three each, the USPS notes. The calendar also shows federal holidays.
KGW meteorologist Rod Hill learned firsthand what it takes to work for the U.S. Postal Service. Lucky for him, he dipped his toe into the profession after the holiday rush. (CREDIT: KGW News)
Attendees at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week had the chance to get behind the wheel of the Postal Service’s new Next Generation Delivery Vehicle – of which a significant percentage will be fully electric. Attendee Kerwin McKenzie shared video of the vehicle on display at his YouTube channel Cruisinaltitude. […]
Washington, DC – The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) voted unanimously to designate Commissioner Mark Acton as vice chairman of the Commission effective January 1st, 2023, succeeding Commissioner Ann Fisher. Agency regulations provide that the commissioners elect a member to serve as vice chairman for a term of one year, reports the PRC. Commissioner Mark Acton […]
The search is on for the men who robbed a USPS worker in McLean, Virginia and took off with the mail carrier’s keys. News4’s Walter Morris reports. SOURCE: NBC 4 Washington
Postal Police union leader says reductions in Postal Police have contributed to an increase in mail thefts and crimes against postal workers.
BOSTON – A postal worker was robbed in Peabody on January 4th, 2023. The worker told police the man pulled out a gun and demanded the keys to postal boxes. (SOURCE: CBS Boston)
Seattle is one of many locations hiring career city carriers directly off the street, reports Don Cheney, APWU PSAL 298. The USPS has quietly posted many career, mostly Part-Time Flexible (PTF), city carrier, rural carrier, custodian, and clerk jobs at https://about.usps.com/careers. Part-time, career job postings include cities across the country, including Boston, Indianapolis, Denver, Minneapolis, […]
“LOGLINE: In The Great Postal Heist, Jay Galione, the son of a postal clerk, investigates the dark corners of the US Postal Service. Across the country, brave employees stand up to injustice on the job and fight to Save the People’s Post Office. FILM SYNOPSIS: The Great Postal Heist follows director Jay Galione’s father, a […]
Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) reports the following: Two hundred postal workers sent a letter to President Fred Rolando of the National Association of Letter Carriers, calling on him to join the Dump DeDoy, Bounce Bloom movement and “strongly urge the NALC Executive Board to take immediate concrete steps to mobilize the workforce and […]
The U.S. Postal Service’s 2021 holiday TV ad began airing November 3rd. The commercial, titled “The Helpers,” shows actual employees working in plants, collecting packages and making deliveries, including in rain and snow. The employees featured in the ad include letter carriers Dennis Dimapindan of Redondo Beach, California; James Keller of Pasadena, California; Stephanie Maldonado […]
Rural and letter carriers with the U.S. Postal Service now have a new selection on their scanners that answers the question “How Am I Doing?”. The “How Am I Doing?” feature can be found on the main menu of scanners used by postal delivery carriers. The feature includes up-to-date information on packages remaining, travel progress […]
The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) have entered into an agreement regarding the implementation and use of the 2 into 1 casing process to temporarily reclaim floor space to accommodate peak season delivery volumes. The 2 into 1 casing process is a system in which two city delivery […]
In a long-awaited decision, the U.S. Postal Service has awarded Oshkosh Defense a 10-year, multi-billion contract for its next generation of delivery vehicles. Under the contract’s initial $482 million investment, Oshkosh Defense will finalize the production design of the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) — a purpose-built, right-hand-drive vehicle for mail and package delivery — […]
The U.S. Postal Service has announced a new series of stamps featuring droids from the Star Wars universe. The stamps were designed by Greg Breeding with William Gicker serving as art director. The collection will be available on a pane of 20 stamps and feature ten droids from both film and animation. The droids are […]
One of the provisions of the NALC/USPS Tentative Contract Agreement posted on November 25th, 2020 is a MOU (memorandum of understanding) eliminating MSP Scan Points (Managed Service Point Scans) no later than 60 days from the contract ratification. According to the NALC Bulletin announcing the tentative contract, the MOU reads: MOU Re: Managed Service Point […]
The news broke on the streets at about 11:00AM (CST) on Saturday, November 7th that news organizations had announced Joe Biden as winner of the 2020 presidential election. Postal workers on the street received news alerts and text messages on their smart phones, and excited customers relayed the breaking news. In major cities, people took […]
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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced today that for plan year 2021, the average total premiums for current non-Postal employees and retirees enrolled in plans under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program will increase 3.6 percent. This year’s increase is lower than last year’s increase. This year, OPM has negotiated a new, […]
On Saturday, August 15th, 2020 a group known as “Shut Down DC” held a protest at Postmaster General (PMG) Louis DeJoy’s home in Washington, DC.
Immediate Release 6/23/20 Contact: Jamie Partridge Communities and Postal Workers United 503-752-5112 Dozens of postal workers, retirees, and customers rallied and marched for full funding of the postal service, beginning at the East Portland post office today. Wearing masks with the slogan “Save Our Postal Service”, carrying balloons, signs, depositing postcards to Congress and dancing […]
PHOTO: Rioters have destroyed the Minneapolis Post Office located at 3033 27th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55406. PHOTO CREDIT: Fibonacci Blue
Inside the US Post Office at 1st Ave and East 31st St in Minneapolis, Minnesota that was destroyed in riots. A woman cleans up trash and mail behind the Post Office. A couple finds their destroyed stimulus check in their PO box. Photo credit: Lorie Shaull
Angela Summers, the letter carrier who was shot to death in Indianapolis on April 27th, 2020, had posted just two days before on Facebook about a problem on her route involving a dog and threats made against her. It’s unclear if the post is about the same address where she was killed.
Immediate Release April 28, 2020 contact: Jamie Partridge, 503-752-5112 Communities and Postal Workers United Memorial mourns fallen postal workers and calls to save the service A small gathering of clergy, community and postal union leaders memorialized postal workers who have died from Covid-19 outside the East Portland post office this morning. The Reverend John Schwiebert […]
During a regular news conference concerning the Federal government’s continuing response to the coronavirus pandemic, a reporter asked President Trump if he was responsible for $25 billion being stripped from the Postal Service in the CARES Act. Trump responded that the Postal Service has been losing billions for many years and that he is not […]
Amazon has ordered 100,000 electric delivery vehicles—the largest-ever order of electric delivery vehicles—from Rivian, a producer of emissions-free electric vehicles with a vehicle development center in Plymouth, just outside Detroit. Amazon’s transportation team spent 18 months evaluating a variety of electric vehicle options to reduce its carbon footprint. To move quickly, the team realized the […]
About five years ago PostalMag.com published Marty Blumberg’s poem “The Mail Must Go through.” It was a great success and only two weeks ago Marty published a book, “My Brooklyn, My Way” that tells of his childhood days in the 50s growing up in Brooklyn. Marty’s dad was a letter carrier for over 40 years […]
Fifty residents and business owners from North Portland told their mail delivery horror stories to Congressman Earl Blumenauer this morning at the Celebration Tabernacle in downtown Kenton. The postal forum was organized by Communities and Postal Workers United. Letter carriers and customers bemoaned the late, delayed and misdelivered mail in the area. Representatives from Kenton […]
Press Advisory Contact: Jamie Partridge 503-752-5112 Fixing North Portland’s Mail What: Postal Forum with Rep. Earl Blumenauer When: Saturday, January 25, 9:30-10:30am Where: Celebration Tabernacle, 8131 N Denver, Portland, OR 97217 Who: Residents, Business and Postal Workers Why: Congressman Rep. Earl Blumenauer wants to hear our 97217 mail stories! Blumenauer has pledged to take our […]
Yet another USPS Postal LLV delivery truck has caught fire and burned, like hundreds of others, this one in Junction City, Kansas (in early Jan. 2020). This makes at least four in the last month that have burned. HUNDREDS of the delivery trucks have burned in similar fashion. Incredibly there have been only a few […]
Immediate Release, Nov. 30, 2019 Contact: Jamie Partridge (Communities and Postal Workers United) 503-752-5112 Willie Groshell (Oregon State Association of Letter Carriers, president) 503-560-4685 Peter Parks (97217-area customer) 503-896-0508 Postal protest rally draws North Portland neighbors Close to fifty residents of North Portland’s 97217 zip code area rallied outside the Kenton Post Office today to […]
After receiving a tip about a USPS letter carrier engaged in activities inconsistent with a work-related injury, the USPS OIG investigated his claim for compensation. A physician had ordered the carrier not to lift weights, walk, climb, kneel, bend, stoop, operate machinery, drive, or stand for more than an hour. OIG agents observed him loading […]
Open Season is Here November 11 – December 9 The 2019 Open Season for USPS employees runs from November 11 to December 9, 2019. During the Open Season period, you can enroll in or make changes to your medical, dental, or vision coverage. You may also enroll in health and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts […]
The United States Postal Service is sponsoring its first National Slip, Trip, and Fall Prevention Week (October 26 – November 1, 2019), a public service campaign that offers safety tips and emphasizes the need for increased owner responsibility to help prevent carrier injuries. On an average day, 51 United States Postal Service mail carriers will […]
Postal Service craft employees can now use the Enterprise Leave Request Application to request unscheduled leave. The application, also known as eLRA, is accessible through LiteBlue using a computer, smartphone or other mobile device. Non-craft employees have used the eLRA for several years. Recent improvements to the system have made it available to craft employees. […]
The movie Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg, featured a futuristic mail truck designed to deploy delivery drones. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is investigating the feasibility of utilizing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or drones as delivery vehicles for mail as an integrated part of its vehicle delivery fleet, as well as to […]
Damien Tate — a former varsity high school football player and now football coach for the Windy City Dolphins — just might be the closest thing the USPS has to a star wideout. This video is part of the Sun-Times Hardest-Working Voices series, which spotlights Chicago area residents.
Well, at least the mistake wasn’t on the stamp. A post office lobby poster announcing new USPS stamps that features the Transcontinental Railroad Stamp uses a 20th century British locomotive for artwork. Technically, the depiction is not an official fail since one could make the argument the poster only suggests that new stamps are arriving […]
Updated information about the Postal Service’s consolidated casing test. 4/26/2019 NALC Files National Level Grievance Over Consolidated Casing: “NALC has filed a national level grievance regarding the Postal Service’s unilateral implementation of the consolidated casing initiative scheduled to begin in the Annandale, VA Post Office in May. The Postal Service plans to expand the initiative […]
Albuquerque Post Offices have no Easter bunnies to deliver but many of its post offices have rodents, scorpions and rats. Most recently, on March 26, 2019 a rat jumped upon an employee at the Richard Pino Station while he was delivering mail into the post office boxes on the premise. A supervisor investigated the incident […]
Washington, DC – Today the Postal Regulatory Commission issued Orders 4875 and 4876 approving the Postal Service’s planned rate adjustments for both Market Dominant products and Competitive products respectively. Rate increases for Market Dominant products must meet certain statutory and regulatory requirements, the most prominent of which is that such increases be no greater than […]
Amazon’s new Mercedes delivery vans are starting to be seen on the roadways and byways of America, as the behemoth company starts taking control of its own deliveries. The Amazon Prime vehicle in the above photo is company owned, driven by an Amazon employee. Amazon is also making the vans available to entrepreneurs to run […]
Statement on the FBI’s Investigation of Suspicious Packages Between October 22 and 24, 2018, suspicious packages were received at multiple locations in the New York and Washington, D.C., areas and Florida. The packages are being sent for analysis at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia. “This investigation is of the highest priority for the FBI. […]
The following is a press release from Postal Notice concerning a patent issue with the U.S. Postal Service: # # # The U.S. Postal Service stands to gain significant revenues, and postal patrons will receive a new secure way to tell when mail is delivered with the application of an online subscription service called Postal […]
As referenced in Article 8, sections 4 and 5, of the USPS-NALC and USPS-APWU national agreements, the December period (during which penalty overtime regulations are not applicable) consists of 4 consecutive service weeks. This year, the December period begins Pay Period 25-18, Week 2 (December 1, 2018) and ends Pay Period 01-19, Week 1 (December […]
Postal workers in Portland, Oregon participated in a rally on October 8th, 2018 to protest postal privatization. Members from all four postal labor unions were in attendance. (Photos courtesy of Communities and Postal Workers United.) Photos
Presidential Memorandum on Universal Postal Union Chairman Robert Taub’s Statement Washington, DC – On August 23, 2018, President Donald J. Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-memorandum-secretary-state-secretary-treasury-secretary-homeland-security-postmaster-general-chairman-postal-regulatory-commission/) detailing his direction to modernizing the monetary reimbursement model for the delivery of goods through the international postal system and enhancing the security and safety of international mail. The […]
A PostalMag.com reader has sent this photo of yet another USPS LLV burning in dramatic fashion. The reader reports that while out delivering mail, the postal truck caught on fire in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Fortunately, the carrier got out safely and the mail was saved, reports the reader. During the last decade, hundreds of USPS […]
Facebook Event Page What: Rally with speakers, music, picketing, Ben Franklin (actor), birthday cake Confirmed speakers: American Postal Workers Union – John Marcotte & Joe Cogan, National Association of Letter Carriers – Dave Norton, OR AFL-CIO – Tom Chamberlain, Jobs with Justice – Alyssa Pagan, American Federation of Government Employees – Marcia Blaine, and “Ben […]
Trending on Instagram and other social media sites are photos of mail collection boxes with knitted monster feet. The feet have been spotted on mail collection boxes in California, New York and elsewhere. The trend, which is being spread by sites such as Pinterest and Reddit, is known as Yarnbombing, part of a wider trend […]
Dillon Smith is the son of Dallas letter carrier Kurt Smith. Dillon has been selected to represent Team USA at the 2019 Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi. A GoFundMe fundraising page has been set up to help with the expenses involved in the trip. Dillon’s family is asking for your generosity to help […]
Dozens of postal workers and customers picketed in front of the Waterfront Post Office in downtown Portland on June 18th, 2018 to protest job cuts that will cause further reductions in service to the public, including longer lines and phone calls unanswered at retail locations, and delay of mail delivery. Postal management plans to eliminate […]
A new feature rolled out on the Postal Service’s delivery scanner on Saturday, June 9th, 2018, warning letter and rural carriers if the delivery scan for a package is being made away from the actual physical location. The new feature will certainly be useful for increasing the integrity of scans and warning carriers about potential […]
PostalMag.com has received information that alleges a NALC union vice president in Pennsylvania has been arranging “kickbacks” from awarded grievance money. Allegedly, the vice president distributes grievance money to individuals, including a shop steward, on the condition they give some of the money back to the vice president. Reportedly, the vice president has stated the […]
April 12, 2018 – President Trump has issued an executive order demanding an evaluation of the Postal Service’s finances. Below is the text of the order. (We will provide a version that is easier to read once it is available.)
CargoGlide has debuted a prototype postal delivery vehicle at USPS headquarters with shelves that roll out. With the setup, carriers would not have to climb into the back of their delivery vehicles. The system is said to be faster and more efficient for retrieving parcels and to significantly reduce the risk of injuries. CargoGlide is […]
April 5, 2018 – The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has released its Financial Analysis report which analyzes the overall financial position of the United States Postal Service in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017. In FY 2017, the Postal Service recorded its first net loss from operations since FY 2013, of $1.3 billion, largely due to declining […]
The EEOC entered a final decision finding that the U.S. Postal Service discriminated against the Class of approximately 130,000 USPS employees when it subjected them to the National Reassessment Process (NRP) between May 5, 2006 and July 1, 2011. The USPS employees who were reviewed under the NRP had suffered workplace injuries, and were working […]
City and Rural Carriers on workroom floors and in online forums are expressing much displeasure about a new time-wasting parcel scanning and loading program that has carriers scanning all parcels while loading in order to determine where to place the parcels in the vehicle. The micromanagement routing program divides the back of carrier vehicles (such […]
At the end of the first video and the beginning of the second video you can see the man who carjacked a USPS carrier in Las Vegas. The video shows the man ditching the USPS truck at an apartment complex in central Las Vegas, then going back to get a tray of mail.
This ought to be rich! According to a flyer mailed along with the March 9th, 2018 USPS pay stub, the next Postal Pulse Survey coming in May 2018 will include a comment box. The comment box was added based on employee feedback, according to the flyer. Small print at the bottom of the flyer indicates […]
The viral video of Boston Dynamic’s SpotMini robot dog has many people worried the Skynet apocalypse is just around the corner. But one of the possible future applications mentioned for the robot dog is package delivery. Imagine a suburban street in the near future. An Amazon package delivery truck pulls up and parks. The dogs […]
The U.S. Postal Service has debuted a nice collection of stamps in early 2018! The Postal Service will dedicate a Mister Rogers Forever Stamp on March 23rd. “Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was known as a beloved television neighbor to generations of children. His groundbreaking public television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood inspired and educated young viewers with […]
A United States Postal Service truck driver is facing charges after he backed up over three pedestrians on the East Side of Manhattan on Tuesday morning, January 23rd, 2018. Michelle Charlesworth with Eyewitness News ABC7NY has more on the story.
The U.S. Postal Service is quietly rolling out a postage rate increase on Sunday, January 21st, 2018. As of January 20th, there’s no recent mention of the rate increase on the Home page of the USPS.com website, in the online USPS Newsroom, or on the Postal Service’s Twitter account. Perhaps the quiet rollout is designed […]
The U.S. Postal Service has issued the following statement via Twitter concerning mail delivery during the U.S. Government shutdown that began January 19, 2018: “USPS operations will not be interrupted due to the Government shutdown, and all Post Offices will remain open for business as usual. Because we are an independent entity that is funded […]
USPS News Link reports: The Postal Service will extend voluntary early retirement (VER) offers to eligible mail handlers and clerks, beginning Jan. 8. The offers will contain three retirement-effective dates from which eligible employees may choose: Jan. 31, Feb. 28 and March 31. While USPS has been taking aggressive steps to cut costs and increase […]
A former USPS vice president was sentenced to two months of incarceration and one year of supervised release for making multiple false statements on his SF-86 background questionnaire and financial disclosure reports, reports the USPS OIG Semiannual Report to Congress Fall 2017 (page 20) (PDF). The person was not named and the only identifying information […]
The National Association of Letter Carriers reports: December 01, 2017 Back Pay Update Active letter carriers All active career letter carriers received their back pay in today’s paycheck. This payment covers the period of time from Sept. 3, 2016, through August 18, 2017. During this period, career letter carriers received three wage increases: a cost-of-living […]
Some neighborhoods are installing mailboxes that are harder to vandalize.
The USPS reports: Volume for primary source of revenue – letter mail – declines by 5.0 billion pieces Continued aggressive management actions along with postal reform legislation & regulatory changes critically needed to address declining volumes and changing mail mix WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service reported revenue of $69.6 billion for fiscal year 2017 […]
Open Season is Coming — Here’s What You Need to Know The 2017 Open Season runs from November 13 to December 11, 2017. During the Open Season period, you can enroll in or make changes to your medical, dental, or vision coverage. You may also enroll in healthcare and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs). […]
Lockheed Martin reports: ### Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been selected by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to provide next generation package processing systems. The Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, with a maximum potential value of $215 million, will provide up to 10 Enhanced Package Processing Systems (EPPS) which are capable of automatically separating […]
The U.S. Postal Service is launching a new online tool called IdeaSMART that will allow employees to submit ideas on how to improve operations and services. The USPS notes an idea can be as simple as a small improvement to an existing product or process you use in your job — or as ambitious as […]
Story by Staff Sgt. Angel Oquendo 156th Airlift Wing In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, many residents of Puerto Rico look for normalcy, and one clear sign of things getting back to normal, is having their mail delivered. The storm aftermath and the lack of power created issues with logistics and the ability to transport […]
The White House reports: President Donald Trump has nominated the following individuals to be Members of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service: • Calvin R. Tucker of Pennsylvania, for the remainder of a term expiring December 8, 2023. Trump’s Man in Philadelphia • Robert M. Duncan of Kentucky, for the remainder […]
Both the APWU and NALC have posted information to clear up confusion about when the Postal Service will observe Veterans Day 2017, which this year falls on a Saturday. APWU Statement “Each year, Veterans’ Day is celebrated on Nov. 11. For 2017, the holiday falls on a Saturday. There has been some confusion about when […]
The USPS Reports: Penalty Overtime Exclusion As referenced in Article 8, sections 4 and 5, of the USPS-NALC and USPS-APWU national agreements, the December period (during which penalty overtime regulations are not applicable) consists of 4 consecutive service weeks. This year, the December period begins Pay Period 25-17, Week 2 (December 2, 2017) and ends […]
The U.S. Postal Service today issued the Celebrating African American History and Culture commemorative Forever stamp as a tribute to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture during a first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony at the museum. The stamp is now available nationwide. “The Postal Service is honored to issue a new commemorative Forever […]
The U.S. Postal Service and Canada Post will dedicate joint History of Hockey stamps at a ceremony at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on October 20th, 2017. The U.S. and Canadian stamps will feature the same designs but will be offered separately by each country with respective identifying marks. The U.S. stamps will be […]
The USPS OIG has conducted an audit to determine if the Postal Service has established and implemented an effective insider threat program in accordance with Postal Service policies and best practices. An insider threat program helps an organization prevent, detect, and respond to the threat of an employee, contractor, or business partner misusing their trusted […]
The USPS Reports: The holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year, but many people miss loved ones who are stationed overseas as military or diplomatic members. While the holidays are a hard time to be away from home, the U.S. Postal Service makes it a priority that those serving their country will […]
A new report released by the USPS OIG discusses the possibility of self-driving postal delivery vehicles. The report, Autonomous Vehicles for the Postal Service, considers that such vehicles could become a reality within the next decade, offering increased driver safety, better fuel efficiency and boosted productivity. The OIG reports: “Driverless cars have captured imaginations for […]
The U.S. Postal Service has issued a set of four “Forever” stamps featuring illustrations from the 1962 children’s book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. The book was one of the first 20th century picture books centered on an African-American child. Art director Antonio Alcala designed the stamps. See the book at Amazon.com
The last remaining Postal Governor James Bilbray signed several POST DATED orders in November/December 2016 to raise postal rate prices in January 2018, because any price increases must be approved by the postal governors. Currently there are no postal governors because the Senate has not confirmed any new governors in a couple of years. The […]
The United States Postal Service filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) today (10/06/2017) of price changes to take effect on January 21, 2018. The new prices, if approved, include a one cent increase in the price of a First-Class Mail Forever stamp from 49 cents to 50 cents. Postcard stamps and metered letters […]
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has announced that the overall average increase in total premiums for the 2018 Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program will rise by an average of four percent. The Federal Benefits Open Season, which runs from November 13 to December 11, 2017, gives Federal employees and retirees the opportunity […]
The Postal Service is preparing to extend the rated lifespan of its LLV delivery vehicles from 30 to 32 or 33 years, because some LLVs were manufactured in 1987 and their service life ends this year. Previously, in 2009, the Postal Service extended the service life of LLVs from 24 years to 30 years. But […]
