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fromAxios
3 weeks agoUSPS warning raises stakes for mail-order prescriptions, higher postage prices
USPS faces imminent cash depletion within 12 months without congressional intervention, threatening mail delivery including critical prescription medications, while Amazon simultaneously reduces USPS volume by two-thirds.
Washington DC
fromFast Company
3 weeks agoUSPS warns it may not make it to 2027 without changes-starting with pricier stamps
USPS faces insolvency within 12 months without operational flexibility, pricing increases, and expanded borrowing authority to address 104 billion pieces of lost annual mail volume since 2006.
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fromEntrepreneur
3 weeks agoAmazon Plans to Slash USPS Shipments by Two-Thirds. Here's What That Means for the Postal Service.
Amazon plans to reduce USPS package shipments by two-thirds by fall, threatening the financially struggling postal service that delivered over one billion Amazon packages last year.
US news
fromFortune
1 month agoThe Postal Service will run out of cash within a year, Postmaster General warns: 'We have to have a conversation with the American public' | Fortune
The U.S. Postal Service will exhaust its cash reserves within a year unless Congress increases the $15 billion borrowing cap established in 1990, risking inability to pay employees and vendors by February 2027.
fromBoston.com
1 month agoVermont postal worker allegedly threw away mail she was supposed to deliver for months
Officers were first alerted to the discarded mail on the afternoon of Jan. 23, according to police. Upon finding the mail in a dumpster on Elm Street in North Troy, they determined that none of it was for that address. Police identified Morisseau as a person of interest and learned that she was a postal employee.
Boston
fromArchDaily
1 month agoDispatched: Architecture of the American Post Office and the Privatization of Civic Space
Across towns and city centers, they carry the shifting architectural ambitions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Greek Revival formality to Beaux-Arts monumentality and Art Deco ornament. Architects and federal planners would give these buildings a clear public role and a powerful physical presence. Stone façades, monumental halls, and crafted interiors projected stability, trust, and permanence. The post office placed the federal government directly into the everyday landscape of American life.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 months agoA major census test faces cutbacks with postal workers tapped to help count
The Trump administration is scaling back plans for this year's field test of the 2030 census, raising concerns about the Census Bureau's ability to produce a reliable population tally for redistributing political representation and federal funding in the next decade. The 2026 test was designed to help the bureau improve the accuracy of the country's upcoming once-a-decade head count.
US politics
fromThe Mercury News
2 months agoMistaken identity results in mail theft in Saratoga
Vehicle burglary, grand theft, theft by credit card: Between 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 and 6:50 a.m. on Jan. 20, someone broke through a window of a vehicle parked in the 13000 block of Fortuna Court and stole a backpack containing a laptop, headphones and a wallet for a loss valued at approximately $2,330. The suspect then used a credit card in the wallet to make a fraudulent purchase totaling approximately $107.
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fromNieman Lab
2 months agoFearing major layoffs, current and former Posties rally around #SaveThePost campaign
The Washington Post newsroom, whose journalists have continued to deliver essential reporting in an unrelenting news cycle (not to mention one reporter being subject to an FBI raid), is expecting deep layoffs to hit in early February. The layoffs would follow mass staff departures from the newspaper amid internal and external blowback to editorial decisions under billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
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