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Updated August 23, 2024 at 11:50 AM. ... all mail would still be delivered in its service standard of delivery within two to five days, a USPS spokesman told CBS MoneyWatch. The majority of mail ...
Before the contract expiration, SurePost packages could be delivered by UPS or USPS to the 48 US states, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, all U.S. Territories, ... 2024. The government agency later ...
While the Postal Service had estimated the new facility would reduce costs by $14 million in 2024, the facility paid out an extra $5 million in unauthorized overtime in 2023 and had $3 million in ...
The 2020 United States Postal Service crisis was a series of events that caused backlogs and delays in the delivery of mail by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The crisis stems primarily from changes implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy shortly after taking office in June 2020.
The USPS has raised postage rates twice in 2024, with a two-cent per stamp increase in January and a second boost in July, which raised the cost of a Forever stamp to 73 cents. Fewer deliveries
Feb. 5—Union workers at the U.S. Postal Service's processing and distribution center in Manchester say plans to consolidate workers and equipment in Boston will cost jobs and slow mail delivery.
Postmaster General DeJoy helped the USPS deliver approximately 380 million home test kits from January 2022 through May 2022. [122] [123] As of March 2024, when the program concluded, the USPS had delivered over 1.8 billion free COVID-19 test kits. [124] In September 2024, the distribution of free at-home COVID-19 tests was re-started. [125] [126]
Special Delivery, a domestic accelerated local delivery service, was introduced on 3 March 1885 initially with a fee of 10¢ paid by a Special Delivery stamp. It was transformed into Express Mail, introduced in 1977 by Ronald B. Lee after an experimental period that started in 1970, [7] although Special Delivery was not terminated until June 8, 1997.