U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is set to implement a new strategic plan that includes higher postage rates and the elimination of first-class tier of mail, two sources familiar with the move told to NBC News on Friday. The plan to eliminate first-class mail, which includes letters, magazines, catalogs, among others, would slow down mail that typically arrives within two days...

Weary postal workers recovering from the holiday surge are hoping the new president will bring a new tone.

New York Yankees Hall of Famer Yogi Berra will be featured on a new stamp this year

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.

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.

With a record number of voters expected to use mail-in ballots, the NBC10 Investigators are putting the U.S. Post Office to the test. NBC10’s Mitch Blacher has the story

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…

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

The House has approved legislation that would reverse recent changes in U.S. Postal Service operations

The Postal Service is facing more questions and a federal lawsuit over mail disruptions

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.

President Donald Trump is misrepresenting the U.S. Postal Service’s financial problems as his postmaster general defends cuts that have slowed mail delivery in advance of the November election.