May 31, 2020
- Remains Of Veteran Who Died From COVID-19 Lost In The Mail
- Philadelphia Sends Out ‘Voteswagon’ To Collect Mail-in Ballots
- Don’t Throw Away Your Coronavirus Stimulus Payment!
May 30, 2020
- Minneapolis Rioters Burn Down Post Office, Possibly With Stimulus Money Inside | Video: Minneapolis Rioters Burn Postal Truck
- Postal Service Provides Recommendations for Successful 2020 Election Mail Season – PEN
- Postal Package Deliveries ‘Bogged Down’ With Delays, Backlogs
- Like mail-in voting? Study Paterson: The New Jersey city just lived through a hellish democratic experiment
- HUNDREDS OF MAIL-IN ABSENTEE BALLOTS WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN UPCOMING PRIMARY
- Several Minneapolis, St. Paul post offices temporarily suspend services
- USPS shuts down mail delivery at 7 post offices in Twin Cities for Friday
May 29, 2020
- The Rise And Fall of USPS and Mail-in Voting – PEN
- Donald Trump is completely right about mail-in ballots – they are the easiest route to a RIGGED ELECTION
- Minneapolis riots: Protesters steal US Postal Service cars as 7 people shot
- Postal service sees 25% increase in package deliveries during pandemic
- NPMHU President Hogrogian Speaks to Press on Future of USPS
- OIG: Spring 2020 Semiannual Report to Congress
- OIG: Leased Facility Maintenance
May 28, 2020
- Utah neighbors call for change after Lehi mailman hit by car – PEN
- Senator Collins: Delivering Assistance to USPS and Its Hardworking Employees During the Pandemic – PEN
- Blue ribbon effort honors postal workers
- Pressure for USPS Funding Ramps Up as Budget Outlook Worsens – Postal Service also clashes with local officials over how to protect workers
- Mail Carriers reveal 11 things they wish everyone knew
- OIG: Facility Condition Reviews – Miami Springs, Promenade, and Doral Post Offices
May 27, 2020
- West Virginia mail carrier charged with attempted election fraud – PEN
- Postal Service worries- will absentee ballots be counted?
- Postal carrier: ‘People rely on you’; delivery demand up with online shopping during virus
- Postal employees keep working during crisis serving public
- Chief Financial Officer Joe Corbett discusses financial effects
- USPS International Shipments Take Forever Due to Coronavirus Pandemic
- OIG: Postal Partnerships: The Complex Role of Middlemen and Discounts in the USPS Package Business
- OIG: Where’s My Mail?
May 26, 2020
- Postal employee facing rebuke for Hatch Act violation – PEN
- The United States Postal Service: An American History (PDF)
- Why the push for an all-by-mail election is unwise — and unnecessary
- USPS offers $50,000 reward after five carriers assaulted with paintball gun in, around DC
- Canada Post tests the waters for postal banking
May 25, 2020
- Mail carriers injured in paintball attacks in D.C. and Md., postal service says
- 29-year-old New York man dies in Worcester after crashing SUV into postal service truck and building
May 24, 2020
- The Post Office is Mentioned, but Not Protected, by the Constitution
- Will the U.S. Postal Service be ready for the surge in mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 election?
- SUV crashes into parked postal truck
- Trump escalates fight against mail-in voting
May 23, 2020
- ‘A pat on the back’: Alabama postal worker delivers meals to those who helped him beat coronavirus
- U.S. Postal Service disputes Denver’s report of a coronavirus death tied to mail distribution hub – Agency official says USPS can’t confirm any COVID-19 deaths tied to its Denver distribution center
- Not Open – Beware of unofficial insurance solicitations
- Retired postal carrier picks up St. Paul neighborhood trash
- What To Do About The U.S. Postal Service
- Family accepts 40-year service pin for postal worker who passed away before he could receive it
May 22, 2020
- Denver orders closure of USPS facility that handles mail for all of Colorado, Wyoming – PEN
- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Says Postal Service May Not Need $10 Billion Virus Loan
- Postal Service’s financial stress might hurt its ability to handle large volume of mail-in ballots
- Crash Sends Postal Carrier To Hospital
May 21, 2020
- Postal Service Celebrates Voices of the Harlem Renaissance Today – PEN
- USPS Board Adopts U. S. Postal Service Mission Statement – the first in the Postal Service’s history – PEN
- Gofundme For Westfield Postal Carrier After House Fire
- Postal worker saves woman from being scammed
- OIG: Mail Delivery and Customer Service Operations – New Orleans Central Carrier Station, New Orleans, LA
May 20, 2020
- Former Secretary-Treasurer of Georgia NALC Branch 536 Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement of $65,033 – PEN
- Ensuring Universal Postal Service Is Delivered to America – PRC Chairman
- USPS Tests New Ways to Protect Employees From Coronavirus – Agency is seeking to ensure safety as many of the 17,000 workers it has quarantined return for duty
- USPS and the NPMHU Agree to Extend Several COVID-19 Related Memoranda
- Family Discovers $1 Million of Post Office Cash in the Middle of the Road
- USPS cartoonist to retire after 33 years
May 19, 2020
- The Postal Service collapse that isn’t happening
- Thousands of absentee ballots in Wisconsin weren’t counted because of mailing problems and tech glitches
- Mail carriers say the USPS is making it hard to take sick leave in the coronavirus pandemic, contrary to its public claims
May 18, 2020
- ‘Christmas but worse’ — Brockton letter carriers deliver 9,000 packages in one day
- Madison postal workers march on along routes despite health, financial uncertainty
- NPMHU: Unions Show Support for USPS
May 17, 2020
- Family, friends of slain postal worker to gather for drive-thru funeral Sunday
- Letter Carrier Leaves Gift Cards For 2020 Graduates On His Route
- Post offices, beloved community hubs, fight virus-era threat
- Grimes County mail carrier rescued after vehicle stuck in high water
- OIG: Obligated to Serve
May 16, 2020
- The Postal Service says it “expects that it will have sufficient liquidity to continue operating through at least May 2021 – The Postal Service collapse that isn’t happening – USPS Form 10-Q (PDF)
- ‘I love the post office’: What Utah is saying about its postal workers
- NJ Gov. Murphy in talks with top USPS official on primary races
- Software glitch results in 61 Lycoming County voters getting eight mail-in ballots – what can happen under mail-in ballots
May 15, 2020
- Statement from President Fredric V. Rolando Re: COVID-19 Virus Crisis (PDF)
- ‘We’re Like A Lifeline’: Postal Workers Fight Fear To Work During Pandemic
- ‘I don’t know what I’d do without you’: Postal workers are helping communities through the pandemic
- Nevada’s vote-by-mail primary stirs fraud concerns, as unclaimed ballots pile up: ‘Something stinks here’
- Too many strings on COVID-crisis aid for Postal Service
May 14, 2020
- Postal Services launches review of package delivery fees as President Trump influence grows
- The state of the U.S. Postal Service in 8 charts
- NPMHU: Thrift Savings Plan News and Announcements Relative to COVID-19 Pandemic
- USPS board set to lose quorum as deputy postmaster general resigns
- Deputy Postmaster General Calls It Quits
- New USPS coronavirus website launches
- OIG: Late and Extra Trips at the Philadelphia, PA, Processing and Distribution Center
May 13, 2020
- Postal Service Delays Production Contract for New Mail Truck
- ‘Disenfranchised’: 318 Ohio ballots won’t count after Postal Service delay
- The US Postal Service Needs Big Reforms, Not a Big Check
- Postal Carriers, Delivery Workers Say They Feel Renewed Sense Of Purpose During Coronavirus Pandemic
- NPMHU: USPS delivers Mandatory Stand-Up Talk — Proof of Concept Temperature Test to be Conducted in Two Postal Districts
- House rescue package includes $25 billion for Postal Service
- OIG: Local Purchases and Payments – Hicksville, NY, Post Office
May 12, 2020
- Indiana Funeral Home Announces Services for Beloved Postal Worker Angela Summers – PEN
- American Gardens Stamps Available Nationwide Tomorrow – PEN
- Postal Service blames ‘error’ after woman with coronavirus told she would no longer get mail
- Ketchikan, AK postal trucks lead funeral procession
May 11, 2020
- Sincerely, Mailman Kyle – Carrier’s kindness recognized in presidential ceremony – PEN
- Flag reminders – Special requirements for two holidays – PEN
- NPMHU: 2020 Convention Update in View of COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
- Man critical after being struck by US Postal Service truck in Manhattan
- PRC Financial Analysis for FY 2019 Shows Postal Service Financial Losses are Largest in a Decade
- Postal employee — mental distress; compensation
May 10, 2020
- Family asks questions after Chicago postal worker dies from coronavirus at 31 – PEN
- Postal Service doesn’t need a bailout; it needs new leadership and new thinking
- PRO/CON: Should the Postal Service receive additional federal money? No
May 09, 2020
- ‘Carriers are heroes too’: mail deliveries continue despite pandemic
- Voting by mail fails to secure the integrity of the vote
- Democrats on collision course with Trump and Republicans over Postal Service bailout
- USPS package ‘surge’ amid pandemic not expected to help bottom line
- Travelling door to door through the COVID-19 pandemic
- Chicago postal worker dies of COVID-19
- Supporters rally in Portland to save USPS
May 08, 2020
- Alabama mail carrier becomes unlikely TikTok sensation – PEN
- USPS finances – Second-quarter results reported – PEN
- New Jersey Postal Service Carrier Charged with Stealing Veterans Administration-Issued Prescriptions from Mail – PEN
- PRC Financial Analysis for FY 2019 Shows Postal Service Financial Losses are Largest in a Decade
- GAO: Congressional Action Is Essential to Enable a Sustainable Business Model
- USPS outlook worsens during coronavirus, Democrats fear it’s pawn for Trump vs. Amazon
- OIG: Reevaluating the Universal Service Obligation
- Emergency volunteer helps after postal worker faints in Montecito, CA
May 07, 2020
- USPS Board of Governors Announces Selection of Louis DeJoy to Serve as Nation’s 75th Postmaster General – PEN
- The Hidden Agenda Behind Covid 19 – Plandemic (Was Covid-19 a plan?) – PEN
- GAO Report Finds Postal Service ‘Not Financially Sustainable,’ Recommends Congressional Action
- The Postal Service is subsidizing Jeff Bezos’ quest to turn Amazon into a delivery machine that competes with UPS and FedEx — but USPS can’t break up with Bezos
- Congress Should Reform the US Postal Service in CARES Act 2.0
- CON: The Postal Service and COVID-19 opportunism
- Michigan postal worker with suspected coronavirus dies weeks before retirement
May 06, 2020
- 11-year-old girl writes thank you letter to mail carrier, gets dozens from USPS workers in return – PEN
- Thieves targeting tax refunds, stimulus and unemployment checks caught on camera – PEN
- Man pleads guilty to crashing into mail truck, seriously injuring carrier, because he was upset with USPS
- Postal Service seeks to hire over 400 new workers in Sacramento to meet package processing demands
- Frustrations boil at Evergreen, CO Post Office following reports of lost packages, false delivery reporting
- 1,000 hand sanitizer bottles delivered to USPS workers at Fort Lauderdale post office
- NPMHU: Postal Service revises Criteria for Return to Work for Employees with Confirmed case of COVID-19
- OIG Audit: Accountable Paper, Postal Funds and Voided PVI Label Refunds – Orlando, FL, Orlo Vista Branch
May 05, 2020
- Former New Jersey Postal Employee Admits Filing False Documents to Receive $686,588 in Workers’ Compensation – PEN
- Massachusetts postal worker survives monthlong battle with COVID-19 – PEN
- NH mailman makes special delivery for seniors – PEN
- NPMHU: USPS Releases EAP Information – Behavioral Health During a Pandemic / Public Health Emergency
- U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors to Meet May 8 – PEN
- Survey finds overwhelming support by Americans of both parties to fund the U.S. Postal Service during pandemic
May 04, 2020
- Postal workers honor mail carrier killed on Indy’s east side – PEN
- Postal Service Battles Financial Fallout From COVID-19 Pandemic
- Feds are enjoying full-time telework but doubt agencies will embrace it later
May 03, 2020
- BROOKLYN MAN ARRESTED FOR STEALING U.S. MAIL, INCLUDING NINE GOVERNMENT STIMULUS CHECKS – PEN
- USPS Funding, Federal Benefits are Sticking Point for 5th Relief Bill
- FEGLI and Beyond: Keeping Up with Your Mid-Career Life Insurance Needs
- Delivery companies keeping up with increased package volumes
May 02, 2020
- Dayton man pleads guilty to shooting mail carrier, faces 10 years up to life in prison – PEN
- President Trump honors Cincinnati mail carrier for his hard work during pandemic
- Hold Mail changes – USPS modifies service during pandemic – PEN
- House coalition sees public support for USPS as leverage for emergency funding negotiations
- U.S. Postal Service in Crisis
May 01, 2020
- GoFundMe: Funeral Expenses for Angela Summers – Indiana carrier gunned down in cold blood while on the job
- Indiana postal worker may have been fatally shot over delayed stimulus check
- New York City man stole $12,000 worth of coronavirus stimulus checks from mailboxes
- Bipartisan group of lawmakers warn Postal Service could ‘cease to function’ by summer
- No, An All-Electric Fleet Won’t Save the U.S. Postal Service
- Why the Postal Service Is Critical to National Security
- Mail has never been more important. Here’s what it’s like to be a postal worker now