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Over the past four years, the Postal Service has engaged in transforming from a battered government bureaucracy with substantial financial losses destined for collapse, to an organization that is aspiring and engaging in practices that will enable us to provide high quality service to the nation for decades to come and to have a financially … Read more
The mailing agency will work with GSA and the group led by Elon Musk, who has called for Postal Service privatization.
National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association March 14, 2025 For Immediate Release Statement from National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association President Don Maston on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s Letter to Congressional Leaders Regarding the USPS MOU with the Trump Administration’s GSA and DOGE Agencies The National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) is analyzing the March 13, 2025 letter from … Read more
DeJoy said the agreement with DOGE and the General Services Administration will allow the government reform team to “assist us in identifying and achieving further efficiencies…. The DOGE team was gracious enough to ask for big problems they can help us with.” DeJoy cited a number of issues including mismanagement of retirement assets and its … Read more
WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress he signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s DOGE government reform team to provide assistance to the money-losing agency as it works to address “big problems.” USPS, an independent government agency with 635,000 employees that lost $9.5 billion last year, has been exempt from DOGE-directed federal … Read more
My name is Tim Luce and I’m a rural carrier in Rockford, MI. I’ve been with the Postal Service since 2012. USPS runs in my family. My mom was a clerk for 25 years, my aunt was a rural carrier and my uncle was in maintenance. I originally thought I wanted to teach high school … Read more
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Jaden Isaiah Garay, 25, of Weaverville, N.C. was sentenced today to 24 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for carjacking and discharging a firearm that caused serious bodily injury to a U.S. Postal Carrier, announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition … Read more
The Postal Service is encouraging employees to attend one of its career conferences this year to take control of their professional development and create a better future for themselves within USPS. Fifty conferences are scheduled across the nation with the continuing theme, “Delivering a Brighter Future.” Each event will include networking opportunities and interactive sessions … Read more
Though the Postal Service might not come to mind as a great factor in the long march toward social equity in the United States, its policies have had a serious impact on the rights of marginalized Americans since its inception in 1775. Activism, civil rights, and politics are ingrained—at least implicitly—in postal history. Benjamin Franklin worked … Read more
NRLCA Members: On Thursday, March 20, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is holding a National Day of Action to say, “Hands Off Our Public Postal Service!” On Sunday, March 23, local branches of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) are holding rallies across the country to say, “Hell no!” to dismantling or privatization … Read more