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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.
Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
The U.S. Postal Service would be unaffected because it does not depend on Congress for funding. ... Will government shutdown affect my mail delivery? What to know. Show comments. Advertisement.
Postmaster General DeJoy helped the USPS deliver approximately 380 million home test kits from January 2022 through May 2022. [132] [133] As of March 2024, when the program concluded, the USPS had delivered over 1.8 billion free COVID-19 test kits. [134] In September 2024, the distribution of free at-home COVID-19 tests was re-started. [135] [136]
"Ordering for free COVID-19 tests via this website will be suspended after Friday, March 8, 2024," the message on the USPS site reads. "All orders placed on or before March 8 will be delivered."
The federal government is partnering with the United States Postal Service again to provide free COVID-19 test kits to people across the U.S. to prepare for the respiratory virus season during the ...
The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 is a federal statute intended to address "the finances and operations of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)", [1] specifically to lift budget requirements imposed on the Service by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act [2] and require it to continue six-day-a-week delivery of mail. [3]
A reported 500 million coronavirus test kits will soon arrive at American households via the United States Postal Service under The post White House shipping COVID-19 tests via USPS mail to ...