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There’s a last minute rush going on to get gifts in time for Christmas. Here are your options:

The US postal service, FedEx and UPS have all released their deadlines for packages and holiday cards to arrive by December 25 and the theme is all the same: send them early.

Last year more than a third of Postal Service first-class mail was late by the time Christmas arrived. The shipping nightmare has both the U.S. Postal Service and private shippers like UPS and FedEx bringing on more help this year, hiring roughly 230,000 temporary workers. They are also taking other steps like installing new package sorting machines.

Holiday shoppers can make a list, but they might not have time to check it twice if they want presents to be in stock and arrive on time. Last year more than a third of Postal Service first-class mail was late by the time Christmas arrived. The shipping nightmare has both the U.S. Postal Service and private shippers like...

Postal workers who recall packages and letters piled up in distribution hubs a year ago are gearing up for another holiday crush

Police say they’ve recovered mail belonging to more than 40 people, and are now working with the United States Postal Inspection Service to identify the suspects and return mail and packages to the intended recipients.

After two Boston city councilors said they’d been told that a postal worker had thrown out mail-in ballots, the U.S. Postal Service issued a response. Massachusetts Sec. of State William Galvin is set to address mail security issues Monday.

It was called “Ship-a-geddon” when pandemic online shopping collided with the holidays last year. The result was a lot of back-ups and package delays. As COVID lingers and supply chain issues mount, Patricia Falcao of Needham, Massachusetts, isn’t sure what her holiday shipping strategy is this year. “Because of supply chain issues one might not get the goods to...

UPS tells NBC10 Boston it can process packages faster than last year because of expanded air and ground fleets and that 88-percent of eligible packages will flow through automated facilities by the end of the year. The US Postal Service is investing about 40 billion dollars in new equipment, technology and personnel, including the addition of 118 new...

A former customer services manager at a Massachusetts post office has pleaded guilty to drug charges linked to stealing mail, federal prosecutors said Friday. Shawn M. Herron, a 44-year-old from Whitman, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute and one count of theft of mail by a postal employee, U.S. Attorney’s...

Louis DeJoy faced more than a dozen conflicts of interest when he began serving as Postmaster General because of his family’s investments in a number of companies closely tied to the U.S. Postal Service, according to new documents that show he was initially allowed to merely recuse himself from matters involving those companies rather than divesting from them.

Time is running out to make sure your packages and holiday cards are mailed in time to arrive by Dec. 25

The U.S. Postal Service is making several changes that’ll impact mail delivery time and the cost of shipping packages during the 2021 holiday season

The Postal Service’s aging fleet of trucks is soldiering on even as a contract for greener replacement vehicles is being challenged.

The U.S. Postal Service wants to raises rates on first-class stamps from 55 cents to 58 cents as part of a host of price hikes and service changes designed to reduce debt for the beleaguered agency.

All three of President Joe Biden’s nominees to the governing board of the U.S. Postal Service have been approved by the Senate.

A mail carrier in New Jersey admitted Thursday that he threw away mail, including 99 general election ballots sent to West Orange residents, according to federal prosecutors.

“Postal banking is an elegant solution that would provide the USPS upwards of $9 billion a year in revenue and would address the high cost of being poor in America,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said.