Background To manage its aging fleet while supporting financial and environmental sustainability strategies from its 10-year Delivering for America plan, the Postal Service is investing $9.6 billion to electrify its delivery vehicles and install related charging infrastructure at hundreds of facilities. As $3 billion of this investment stems from congressional funds, it is essential for…
June 27, 2024 The Postal Service is reminding fleet managers and drivers to always buy regular unleaded and the lowest-grade diesel fuel to save the organization money. Fuel purchases should also take place at stations in the USPS Preferred Fueling Network, which has more than 26,000 retail fuel sites and 40 brands. Among the brands are 7-Eleven,…
June 27, 2024 Postal Bulletin’s latest edition, published June 27, offers advice on how to keep internet-connected devices — known as the Internet of Things — secure. What do smart TVs, fitness equipment, and home security systems all have in common? They can all be internet-enabled. This technology, known as the “Internet of Things,” refers…
Background The Postal Service announced its intent to improve nationwide service performance as part of its Delivering for America plan. Service performance is defined by the Postal Service as the time it takes to deliver a mailpiece or package from its acceptance through its delivery. The delivery time is tracked in the Service Performance Measurement…
Opening Day Comments – National Negotiations — June 25, 2024 By APWU President and Lead Negotiator Mark Dimondstein The American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO welcomes this opportunity to represent approximately 200,000 postal workers in these important negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between our union and the United States Postal Service. For generations postal…
June 21, 2024 Due to recent mercury spills in the mail, the Postal Service is reminding employees that metallic mercury and items containing metallic mercury are prohibited in the mailstream. Mercury is a toxic chemical that even when exposed in small amounts — through inhalation, ingestion or skin contact — may cause serious health conditions….
June 17, 2024 USPS will observe Juneteenth National Independence Day, the country’s newest federal holiday, on Wednesday, June 19. Juneteenth is the oldest known nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday gets its name from the date in 1865 when 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, TX, and…
June 17, 2024 Washington, DC – The Postal Regulatory Commission released today its Financial Analysis report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. The in-depth analysis of the Postal Service’s financial performance concluded that the organization’s overall financial condition continues to worsen. In FY 2023, the Postal Service recorded a net operating loss of $2.3 billion — an…
