Drivers that aren’t proficient in English is one of several problems an audit uncovered within the U.S. Postal Service’s program for hiring contract drivers for mail delivery.
The Postal Service is moving more mail by air to compensate for lower parcel volumes and avoid premiums for missing UPS volume guarantees when the stated policy is to rely more on surface transportation, according to a new audit.
The U.S. Postal Service is borrowing employee retirement funds to maintain cash flow, but will run out of money in five years or more unless Congress passes structural reforms, the Postmaster General warned on Wednesday.
Canada Post announced it plans to transition nearly 500,000 more people to centralized community mailboxes because home delivery is too expensive.
The U.S. Postal Service and its largest block of unionized letter carriers are headed to mediation over a new contract.
The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service has suspended pension payments and seeks to raise the price of a First-Class stamp by 4 cents.
Canada Post is moving ahead with a modernization plan aimed at reducing excess capacity and cutting costs in an effort to restore its financial health.
The U.S. Postal Service needs relief from unfunded mandates and operating restrictions that have created a cash crisis for the nation’s mail service, Postmaster General David Steiner warned Congress.
A House investment reform bill could impact the U.S. Postal Service by eliminating the requirement for investment companies to mail certain financial documents to customers.
The global postal industry is increasingly focused on parcel shipments over mail for its financial health.
PostNord in Denmark is dropping letter mail service to focus on parcel shipping.
The Supreme Court will hear a case involving the U.S. Postal Service and whether it can be sued for deliberately withholding mail from a resident.
The Canadian government is shaking up Canada Post to reduce excess capacity and save money as postal demand shrinks.
Businesses will stop using Canada Post if workers decide to go on strike again, worsening the existing mail drain, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
The U.S. Postal Service is slowing down service to remote post offices to speed up the rest of the mail distribution system and even out volume flows.
Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are not giving an inch in their fight over a labor contract, with Canada Post showing frustration with union leadership and opposing its call for binding arbitration.
Postal workers in Canada have threatened to go on strike Friday, which would shut down most delivery services and hurt businesses that depend on Canada Post to fulfill orders.
The U.S. Postal Service’s limited ability to operate as a pure private business makes it more difficult to turn a profit. Other postal operators have more management flexibility, a new report shows.
The U.S. Postal Service said it is moving ahead with a transportation streamlining initiative, which requires changing the frequency of truck connections between remote post offices and regional processing centers.
President Trump is ready to unilaterally put the U.S. Postal Service under White House control, in what would be an unprecedented move to control the nation’s primary mail delivery provider, according to The Washington Post.
