On March 12, 2025, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the February 2025 Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) which established the Private Transportation Index at 274.854, an increase from the November 2024 Index of 271.14. Therefore, based on the February 2025 CPI-W release, the ...

Rural Carrier Lee Ann Austin was recently delivering mail in Manila, AR, when she saw a customer who had fallen outside her home. The woman, who runs an antiques store next to the house, had taken a tumble while she was picking up trash that had blown into the road ...

Post office employee Brajawn Upshaw had to check his nerves at the door when he auditions for Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Carrie Underwood on this Sunday’s American Idol. The 21-year-old from Temple, GA, who has worked at the post office for three years, didn’t have the chutzpah to sign himself up to audition. So his mom Tasha did it ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A federal judge in U.S. District Court sentenced Jaden Garay to 24 years and restitution of $640,582 owed to victim Teresa Ramsay, who was the U.S. postal carrier shot in the face nearly two years ago. "The bullet literally came within a hair's breath of my carotid" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Postal Service employees may participate in an upcoming webinar that will address benefits that are available after retirement. The session, “USPS Retirement Health Benefits: Medicare, Dental and Vision,” will be held Wednesday, March 19, from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern. Representatives from Aetna, a provider of health plans for federal ...

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 ...

ASHEVILLE - The man who pleaded guilty in attempted murder and carjacking of a mail vehicle in connection with the shooting of a Madison County resident in the face will be sentenced this week. Jaden Garay, 25, of Weaverville, was federally indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice in October 2023 after the Sept ...

Rural Carrier Joshua Toomey was delivering mail in Corydon, IN, recently when he heard someone yelling. The Postal Service employee looked around to see who it was. After some time, a voice piped up, “Mailman!” Toomey continued investigating and found a man who had tipped over in his motorized scooter ...