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The full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993. The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas and associated states.
The NALC is opposed to postal privatization and to any termination of the USPS postal monopoly on first-class mail, as well as to contract delivery service (CDS), the contracting out of postal work to non-USPS independent contractor employees (see Star routes), who have lower wages (and fewer benefits or none at all) than USPS employees. [11]
This is a list of United States–based companies having the most employees globally. For some companies listed, the majority of total employees live and work in other countries. Employees are mixed and composed of various Economic sectors such as the Business sector, Private sector, Public sector, and the Voluntary sector.
A USPS truck in the snow. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is defined by statute as an "independent establishment" of the federal government, which replaced the Cabinet-level Post Office Department in 1971. The Postal Service is responsible for the collection, transportation, and delivery of the mails, and for the operation of thousands ...
Railroad companies greatly expanded mail transport service after 1862, and the Railway Mail Service was inaugurated in 1869. [15] Rail cars designed to sort and distribute mail while rolling were soon introduced. [15] RMS employees sorted mail "on-the-fly" during the journey, and became some of the most skilled workers in the postal service.
Rural letter carriers are considered bargaining unit employees in the United States Postal Service. This means that there is a contract between the Postal Service and the NRLCA. Only NRLCA can represent members of the rural carrier craft in the grievance procedure, including providing protection in disciplinary actions.
A former U.S. Postal Service employee is headed to prison after federal prosecutors said she sold a USPS key for $2,500 — resulting in hundreds of pieces of mail stolen in Alabama.
Spooner, the head of the American Letter Mail Company, has transmitted to the Department at Washington, a written admission of his conveyance of letters, &c., with all the necessary facts in the case, to make it a purely legal question, so that the Postmaster General has nothing to do but take the whole subject to the Supreme Court of the ...