Postal Service

The nation’s major shipping companies are in good shape to get shoppers’ packages delivered on time this holiday season. Carriers like the U.S. Postal Service, UPS and FedEx are expected to have excess capacity after struggling under a crush of holiday packages in 2020 and 2021. There are several factors at play: Consumers have gotten an early start, done more...

First lady Jill Biden was on hand Monday as the United States Postal Service unveiled its commemorative Nancy Reagan stamp

The big carriers such as FedEx, UPS and Amazon make lots of deliveries, and none of those packages are being shipped for “free.”

The U.S. Senate is expected to take up legislation passed by the U.S. House to overhaul the Postal Service, which has struggled with finances and complaints about performance due to staffing challenges. “It’s been a real problem,” Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, said of complaints from around the state of declining performance by the U.S. Postal Service. Welch was at...

Not even the pandemic kept them from their appointed rounds, but a postal system dealing with the continued impact caused by the omicron variant is about to face a new stress — tens of millions of at-home COVID tests.  “We know this is our job and we persevere, we get it done,” Scott Hoffman, the president of the Metro Area…

With the government set to send out free rapid COVID tests across the country, there are concerns about overwhelming a USPS already struggling with staffing shortages.