Over a week into this year’s Open Season, some enrollees in the new Postal Service Health Benefits program are struggling to review and make changes to their health care options for plan year 2025. It’s unclear how widespread the issues are, but some PSHB participants have experienced difficulties logging in to ...

Ballenger was on his normal 51-mile route, covering rural parts of St. Clair County. He was in the 1700 block of Mascoutah Ave. when he said something to a neighbor about the homeowner he hadn’t seen in days. A wellness check was made, where the 93-year-old homeowner was found on ...

The Postal Service wants employees to understand the four types of health plans available during this year’s open season. The plan types are: • Health maintenance organizations, or HMOs, which provide care from in-network physicians and hospitals located in particular geographic or service areas; • Preferred provider organizations, or PPOs, ...

The Postal Service is inviting employees to audition for an upcoming advertising campaign that will focus on how the organization serves business customers. Employees who are selected to participate could be featured in a variety of ads, including TV commercials. The casting call is open to all employees. These types ...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) have agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding establishing procedures for rural routes receiving territorial adjustments, including adjustments to relieve overburdened routes, consolidations of one or more routes in an office, and the creation of new routes ...

A flexible spending account may be a good option for Postal Service employees who wear eyeglasses, visit the dentist more than twice a year, or have other needs. Flexible spending accounts, or FSAs, allow employees to set aside money on a pretax basis to pay for health care and dependent ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service is announcing the debut of an online e-commerce catalog for the fulfillment of gifts: Santa’s Gift Shoppe, an online option developed exclusively for USPS Operation Santa letter adopters, powered by Toys“R”Us, just in time for the start of the program’s first day of letter ...

The U.S. Postal Service will change how it handles Amazon packages during the upcoming holidays to prevent overload at its processing hubs, Deputy Postmaster General Douglas Tulino said during the agency’s board of governors meeting Thursday. To improve efficiency, Postal Service operations at the ZIP code level will handle Amazon ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Postal Service said on Thursday it must continue to cut costs and boost revenue or risks requiring a government bailout to help the organization avoid financial collapse. USPS reported on Thursday a net loss of $9.5 billion for its fiscal year ending Sept. 30, a $3-billion ...

Postal Service continues to offer a great value for shipping with our reliable service to the American people. Pricing actions part of balanced approach under “Delivering for America,” the Postal Service’s 10-year plan for achieving financial sustainability and service excellence. Rate changes will support the $40 billion of investments in ...

November 15, 2024 - On Thursday in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) nominations hearing for the United States Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Val Demings, William Zollars, and Gordon Hartogensis on their commitment to combatting rural mail delivery issues. Senator Hawley confronted ...

The Postal Service has announced many of the stamps it will release in 2025: • Allen Toussaint, the 48th entry in the Black Heritage series will honor the virtuoso pianist, singer, songwriter, composer, arranger and producer; • American Vistas, two presorted standard stamps depicting stylized, minimalist scenes of mountains and a beach ...

We have gathered the top links and information to make everything easy to find on the new PSHB plan ...

To help Postal Service employees compare health plans during this year’s open season, the organization offers access to Checkbook’s Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees. The online guide has information about all plans available through the new Postal Service Health Benefits Program. Employees can use the comparison tool to find ...

Reduced controllable loss by $434 million Operating revenue increase of $1.4 billion to $79.5 billion due to strategic price increases and continued growth in our Shipping and Packages category Transportation expense reductions of $1.3 billion, reflecting continued progress of network optimization Release of Delivering for America 2.0 - Fulfilling the Promise highlighting our key ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced the contribution limits for 2025: Limit Name 2025 Limit 2024 Limit Elective Deferral Limit (IRC § 402(g)) $23,500 $23,000 Catch-up Contribution Limit (participants ages 50-59, and age 64 and over) (IRC § 414(v)) $7,500 $7,500 Catch-up Contribution Limit (participants ages 60, 61, 62, ...

UPDATE: On Tuesday, November 12, the House passed the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82), legislation that would repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), under a suspension of the rules by a 327-75 final vote (suspension of the rules requires a 2/3 majority vote) ...