What GAO Found In 2020, the majority of which was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) experienced a 9 percent drop in total mail volume when compared to 2019. The overall drop was primarily due to a 4 percent dip in First-Class Mail and a 14 percent decline in Marketing Mail […]
Washington, DC – 4/26/21 – The Postal Regulatory Commission (Commission) today released its Financial Analysis, an examination of the U.S. Postal Service’s (Postal Service) financial results and 10-K Statements for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. Despite an increase in Competitive products revenue, the Commission’s overall analysis supports the conclusion that the Postal Service is on a […]
Meeting to be conducted by live audio webcast WASHINGTON, DC — 4/28/21 – The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors will meet in open session on May 7, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. ET. The Board is expected to discuss the following items: Call to Order and Opening Remarks of the Chairman Remarks of the Postmaster […]
4/27/21 – Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JESSICA GILES, 38, of West Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny to two years of probation, the first three months of which Giles must spend in home confinement, for stealing cash from the mail […]
Fox 2 Detroit – 4/27/21 – The county prosecutor says this is an example of the video not telling the whole story after a road rage fight broke out with a postal carrier and two women in Flint.
U.S. Postal Service Accelerates Key Network Infrastructure Investments to Meet Customers’ Evolving Mailing and Shipping Needs Ahead of 2021 Holiday Season Accelerated investments include the procurement of 138 package sorters to be operational ahead of 2021 peak holiday season. 45 additional annex facilities to support surges, overflow of packages, to be leased. Consistent with optimization […]
Apr 26, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to Acting District of Columbia Postmaster Eddie Masangcay about the significant increase in delayed and undelivered mail throughout the District that D.C. residents have reported to her office. In the letter, Norton asked for a response in writing by April 30, 2021, […]
Miami, Fl. – 4/26/21 – A Broward County resident was charged by indictment with forty counts of theft of government property in connection with a scheme to steal over 37,000 stamps from the United States Postal Service. According to the allegations in the indictment, from on or about September 11, 2019 through on or about […]
TYLER, Texas – 4/19/21 – Two individuals have pleaded guilty to their involvement in postal offenses in Texas and Louisiana, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. Paul Kennedy, 39, of Henderson, Texas, pleaded guilty to burglary of a United States post office; possession of stolen mail; possession of stolen money orders; damage to government […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — 4/19/21 – Steal the mail, wash the check, repeat. The cycle of “check washing,” a scam that involves mail and bank fraud, continues in Hampton Roads. The cases of check washing at the post office on Thoroughgood Road in Virginia Beach, officially known as the Bayside station, go back as […]