USPS Reports On-Time Delivery Gains, Higher Customer Satisfaction for Holiday Surge

USPS Reports On-Time Delivery Gains, Higher Customer Satisfaction for Holiday Surge

WASHINGTON — 1/16/26 – Through large investments in new technology and new logistics planning and execution, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) significantly improved its delivery performance during this past holiday season. Mail items and packages were delivered within 2.5 days on average (16 billion in volume), compared to 2.8 days during the same period last year (Nov. 15 – […]

Former New York postal employee sentenced for stealing gift cards and money from the mail

Former New York postal employee sentenced for stealing gift cards and money from the mail

BUFFALO, N.Y.- 1/16/26 – U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Anita D. Miller, 42, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of theft of mail by a postal employee and delay of mail by a postal employee, was sentenced to serve three years’ probation and 100 community service by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. […]

FYI: IRS Shutters Direct File, Citing Cost and Low Uptake

FYI: IRS Shutters Direct File, Citing Cost and Low Uptake

Treasury announced in a new report to Congress that the IRS’s Direct File tool will be suspended in favor of improving Free File — the IRS’s long-standing partnership with private tax software companies 1/16/26 – “The report announces that the IRS will suspend Direct File,” Treasury said in the report, which is dated October 2 but was released […]

Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Keep Postal Operations Local

Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Keep Postal Operations Local

Washington, D.C. – 1/16/26 – U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced legislation to bolster protections for rural mail services across the country. For example, the Protect Postal Performance Act would put safeguards in place to keep the United States Postal Service (USPS) from moving mail processing operations from Reno to Sacramento […]

Rep. Jack Bergman’s Postal Service Priorities Pass House

Rep. Jack Bergman’s Postal Service Priorities Pass House

1/15/26 – This week, Rep. Jack Bergman helped secure the inclusion of key bipartisan priorities to protect rural mail service in the Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) report, which recently passed the House of Representatives. The language, which Rep. Bergman secured alongside fellow Congressional Postal Service Caucus co-chairs Representatives Nikki Budzinski […]

Brush Prairie, Washington Woman Pleads Guilty to and Sentenced for Mail Theft

Brush Prairie, Washington Woman Pleads Guilty to and Sentenced for Mail Theft

PORTLAND, Ore.—1/15/26 – A Brush Prairie, Washington, woman pleaded guilty yesterday and was sentenced for mail theft while working as a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee. Darcy Rae Nolan, 57, pleaded guilty to the information charging theft of mail by an officer or employee. Nolan was sentenced to two years of probation. The court ordered […]

Congressman Strong Holds USPS Accountable to North Alabamians, Secures Evaluation of Processing Center Closure

Congressman Strong Holds USPS Accountable to North Alabamians, Secures Evaluation of Processing Center Closure

WASHINGTON — 1/15/26 – Representative Dale Strong, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has secured an evaluation of the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) consolidation of Huntsville’s processing and distribution center – a move that has disrupted mail service across North Alabama. The provision was included in H.R. 7006, the Financial Services and General Government Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations bill, […]

Budzinski Priorities to Strengthen Postal Service Pass House of Representatives

Budzinski Priorities to Strengthen Postal Service Pass House of Representatives

The bipartisan measures would address rural delivery delays and harmful closures of post offices and processing facilities WASHINGTON, D.C. — 1/14/26 – Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) announced that three of her priorities to strengthen the United States Postal Service (USPS) passed the House of Representatives as part of the Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Services and General […]

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Jan. 19

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Jan. 19

The annual holiday honors the civil rights icon 1/15/26 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed Monday, Jan. 19. King helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech. He also helped pave the way for the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 […]

USPS is Now the Official Shipping Sponsor of the National Hockey League

USPS is Now the Official Shipping Sponsor of the National Hockey League

Two Iconic Organizations Come Together to Excite and Inspire Fans and Celebrate Commitment to Excellence and the Competitive Spirit WASHINGTON & NEW YORK — 1/15/26 – The United States Postal Service (USPS) and the National Hockey League (NHL) today announced a U.S. sponsorship agreement linking two iconic brands and making USPS the Official Shipping Sponsor […]