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A Man of Letters: Yogi Berra to Be Featured on New Stamp
New York Yankees Hall of Famer Yogi Berra will be featured on a new stamp this year
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Judge Orders Further Sweeps of Postal Service Facilities for Undelivered Ballots
A federal judge ordered the Postal Service on Thursday to continue its sweep of mail facilities to check for undelivered ballots in states that have extended vote delivery deadlines, such as North Carolina and Pennsylvania, NBC News reports.
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Will the U.S. Mail Delivery Slowdown Jeopardize Your Mail-In Ballot?
A three-month test by of U.S. mail delivery by NBCLX and NBC Owned Television Stations found most First-Class letters still get delivered within 5 days – including official election mail – but delays are much more common now than they were in August or early September.
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Voters Have Cast 1.1M Mail-In Ballots In Massachusetts. Will the Rest Arrive in Time?
With a week until election day, all eyes are on the U.S. Postal Service as it copes with a massive increase in mail-in voting. More than 1.1 million mail-in ballots have now been received in Massachusetts, according to figures released by the Secretary of State William Galvin’s office on Tuesday afternoon. Nearly 683,000 more have voted in person at early…
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Checking on Postal Performance Before Election Day
With election day approaching, all eyes are on the U.S. Postal Service.
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US Mail Slowdown Continues as Election Nears
The U.S. Postal Service is continuing to suffer a summer slowdown. For the second month in a row, reporters at NBC Owned Television Stations, Telemundo and NBCLX tested the Postal Service by mailing hundreds of letters across the country. The result: About 20 percent of 426 letters arrived later than expected. That’s consistent with a smaller test with 155 letters…
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NBC Tests USPS Speeds Before Election But Finds Little Sign of Improvement
The U.S. Postal Service isn’t delivering mail as quickly as it should, but the delays don’t appear significant enough – at this time – to disrupt an election, according to a September test by NBCLX and NBC Owned Television Stations.
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Records: Mail Delivery Lags Behind Targets as Election Nears
Data obtained by The Associated Press shows Postal Service districts across the nation are missing the agency’s own standards for on-time delivery as millions of Americans prepare to vote by mail
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NY Judge: Postal Service Must Process Election Mail in a Timely Manner
The U.S. Postal Service must live up to its responsibilities to timely process election mail by treating it as a priority, a New York judge ordered on Monday, adding that the agency’s workers should be permitted to make extra deliveries and work overtime near the November presidential election.
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US Judge Blocks Postal Service Changes That Slowed Mail
A U.S. judge blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail nationwide, calling them “a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” before the November election
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Trump Open to Inquiry Into DeJoy and Campaign Contributions
President Donald Trump says he’s open to an investigation of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy following published reports that former employees of DeJoy, a major donor to Trump and other Republicans, said they felt pressured to make campaign contributions to GOP candidates.
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With the Election Looming, How Quickly Is Mail Delivered In Massachusetts?
At Leah Higginbotham’s home in Newton, Massachusetts, something was missing during her daily check of the mailbox earlier this month. “Our mail carrier, who’s awesome, went on vacation,” she recalled. Mail service to her neighborhood was interrupted for a week, Higginbotham said. And with neighbors and family members relying on daily deliveries, Higginbotham said she was disturbed. “My mom,...
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Postal Problems Remain as Election Nears
Delivery delays are causing concern in the weeks leading up to the November election.
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Postal Chief DeJoy Has Long Leveraged Connections, Dollars
As questions linger about election-year changes to post office operations and service, congressional Democrats are trying to figure out how Republican donor Louis DeJoy came to be hired as postmaster general
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Rep. Cooper to Postmaster General DeJoy: Is Presidential Pardon ‘Your Backup Plan?'
At a congressional hearing on Monday, Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., accused Postmaster General Louis DeJoy of having political conflicts of interest and illegally interfering with mail deliveries. “Mr. DeJoy, is your backup plan to get pardoned like Roger Stone?” he asked, referring to the Donald Trump associate whose sentence was commuted by the president.
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Postal Service Delays of Prescription Drugs Put Lives at Risk
Jan Stowe saw countless patients go through withdrawals during her 40-year nursing career, but last month she experienced it herself when the U.S. Postal Service failed to deliver her medication for chronic back pain and muscle spasms.
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Emergency Postal Aid Stalls as WH Rejects House-Passed Bill
Help for the U_S_ Postal Service has landed in stalemate as the White House dismissed an emergency funding bill aimed at shoring up the agency before the November elections as “going nowhere.”
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House Passes Bill to Reverse Changes Blamed for Mail Delays
The House has approved legislation that would reverse recent changes in U.S. Postal Service operations
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Pelosi Says Postmaster Has No Plans to Restore Mail Cuts
The Postal Service is facing more questions and a federal lawsuit over mail disruptions
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Postal Service Changes Suspended
In a surprise move the Postmaster General has reversed course and suspended controversial changes to the United States Postal Service that many said were aimed at disrupting the upcoming election.