The Postal Service puts the ZIP Code to use with a rural surcharge
The ZIP Code was introduced in 1963 to improve the speed and efficiency of mail processing by using machine-readable codes. Over the years, it has become ubiquitous in the marketplace and the culture in general, and it’s one of the Postal Service’s most valuable assets. When it comes to postal rates ...
NOTICE: 2025 Enrollment for Rural Carrier Benefit Plan (RCBP) Members
ATTENTION RCBP Members: The Rural Carrier Benefit Plan is still receiving and processing enrollment requests from OPM for the new Postal Service Health Benefit (PSHB) plan effective 1/1/25. If you need medical care and have not yet received your ID card in the mail, please contact Aetna Customer Service at ...
UPDATE: National Day of Observance MOU – Thursday, January 9, 2025
After discussion with USPS HQ, the Memorandum of Agreement from May 2000 (link below) will be applied to the National Day of Observance tomorrow (January 9, 2025) ...
Winter weather hits East Coast, Central Plains
The mid-Atlantic and Central Plains regions have experienced heavy snow, freezing rain and icy conditions in recent days. The Postal Service will continue to deliver where it is safe to do so. Heavy snow, freezing rain, icy conditions, and severe weather events in the Central Plains through the Mid-Atlantic (New ...
USPS to participate in national day of observance
A national day of observance has been declared Thursday, Jan. 9, to honor former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at age 100. The Postal Service will suspend regular mail delivery, retail services and office activity on Jan. 9. There will be limited package delivery service on that day ...
USPS will hold virtual fairs for supervisory jobs
The Postal Service will offer four virtual job fairs for supervisory positions this year, starting in February. Topics to be covered during the fairs include: • The supervisory role, including responsibilities, potential career paths and how to find and apply for positions. • How to effectively respond to knowledge, skills ...
IG, regulator bash USPS plans to slow some mail delivery
One of the U.S. Postal Service’s key reform initiatives is worsening service and raising costs, a recent inspector general report found, contrasting the agency’s claims about the impact of its changes. The IG said a pilot program to test USPS’ Regional Transportation Optimization plan, which requires mail to sit overnight ...
What’s Really Happening with UPS SurePost?
On December 31, 2024, the UPS/USPS Negotiated Service Agreement (NSA) officially expired, marking the end of a long, mostly silent period of negotiations. Unfortunately, these talks failed to produce a resolution, leaving shippers with unexpected consequences. Starting on January 2, 2025, shippers noticed an immediate problem: SurePost labels for P.O ...
No, the president can’t privatize the U.S. Postal Service
Federal law says the government has to deliver the mail. It would take an act of Congress to change that. Because federal law establishes the postal service as a core function of the government, privatizing USPS would require Congress to pass a new law. The U.S. Postal Service in its ...
NRLCA – UPDATE: Social Security Fairness Act Signed Into Law
UPDATE: On Sunday, January 5, 2025, President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law at a bill signing ceremony at the White House. This landmark bipartisan legislation repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). Both GPO and WEP unfairly reduce, or in some cases ...
Beloved Rushville rural carrier loses husband following house fire
(RUSHVILLE, Mo.) A beloved United States Postal Service worker in Rushville is spending the beginning of the new year navigating a new normal after her family's house caught fire Monday evening. 72-year-old Bobbie Smith was away from her home when the fire took her house and everything in it. The ...
Biden signs Social Security Fairness Act into law
President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law Sunday afternoon, the final step needed for nearly 3 million public sector employees, retirees, spouses and surviving spouses to begin receiving larger monthly Social Security payments. The legislation repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset — two ...
Some employee postcards have incorrect names
USPS employees are currently receiving postcards about how the organization is modernizing its fleet as part of the Delivering for America plan. Because of a printer error, the names and addresses on some postcards are mismatched. Employees do not need to take any corrective action ...
TSP January processing schedule
IRS Form 1099-R — In mid-January, the TSP will mail IRS Form 1099-R, Distributions from Pensions, Annuities, Retirement or Profit-Sharing Plans, IRAs, Insurance Contracts, etc., to participants who received a withdrawal and/or a taxed or foreclosed loan between January 1 and December 31, 2024. (Due to required processing time, withdrawals requested after ...
NYC woman in custody for stabbing US Postal Service worker to death in dispute at deli sandwich line
A woman is in custody for the fatal stabbing of a postal worker following a dispute over sandwiches at a Manhattan deli on Thursday, law enforcement sources told the Daily News. The 36-year-old mailman was on duty for the U.S. Postal Service when he stopped at Joe’s Grocery on Lenox Road near W. 118th St. to ...
On-duty postal worker fatally stabbed in Harlem in broad-daylight attack
An on-duty postal worker was stabbed to death in a broad-daylight attack Thursday in Harlem, police and sources said. The 36-year-old victim was stabbed multiple times at the intersection of Malcolm X Boulevard and 118th Street around 2:40 p.m., authorities said. The gravely wounded man — who law enforcement sources ...
USPS annual calendar shows the 2025 payroll schedule
Postal Service employees will have 26 paydays this year. The calendar that accompanies this article shows the paycheck dates. Every month will have two paydays, except for January and August, which will have three each. The 2025 federal holidays that USPS observes are also shown: New Year’s Day (Wednesday, Jan ...