OIG: The Delivering for America (DFA) plan, released in 2021, outlines the Postal Service’s 10-year strategy to improve service and achieve financial sustainability. In 2024, DFA 2.0 provided an updated blueprint for its path forward. Since the release of the DFA plan, the Office of Inspector General has integrated independent and objective reviews of its implementation into our work. This … Read More
Why mailing a ballot close to Election Day may get it rejected for a late postmark
NPR: Relying on the U.S. Postal Service to return a mail-in ballot close to Election Day now comes with an additional risk for many voters — a late postmark that gets a vote rejected. The risk stems from mailing system changes that began last year. And those changes have pushed some election officials to encourage voters to consider returning their … Read More
OIG Report on Facility Lease Management
OIG: Due to a variety of cost and service considerations, the U.S. Postal Service leases nearly 23,000 of its 31,000 real properties nationwide, at an annual cost of more than $1 billion. While Postal Service staff manage leases and rent payments, a third-party contractor helps negotiate terms and submits annual reports with key financial and operating data. Facility-related lease costs rose since 2021 due … Read More
CPWU Fall 2026 Newsletter
The Fall 2026 newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) has articles about the “uprising” at the NALC Convention, the legal fight over voting by mail, the importance of voting early due to slower mail delivery, and self-driving vehicles, robots and drones. Read the newsletter here.
PMG tells associates he wants out
Reuters: “US Postal Service chief told associates he wants to quit, sources say.” The head of the U.S. Postal Service ​has told confidants that he is deeply discouraged by his job and wants to resign, according to four people familiar with his thinking, as the ‌agency comes under scrutiny over financial losses and President Donald Trump’s effort to tighten rules … Read More
EcommerceBytes Ceases Publication After 27 Years
Value Added Resource: Longtime ecommerce news site EcommerceBytes has ceased publication after 27Â years, ending a run that began when publishers Ina and David Steiner launched AuctionBytes in 1999. The husband-and-wife publishing operation, which rebranded as EcommerceBytes in 2011, covered eBay, Amazon, Etsy and other marketplaces, with a particular focus on issues affecting online sellers. The site’s homepage has now been … Read More
Trump Quietly Asserts Control Over Postal Service Amid Plans to Overhaul Voting
New York Times: Four weeks before President Trump signed an executive order seeking to restrict mail voting, he filed four nominations for vacancies on the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service. All four were Republicans. Three have expressed doubts about who won the 2020 presidential election and the security of voting. The selections broke with a longstanding practice … Read More
Trump’s anti-mail voting order gets blocked again, this time by federal appeals court
Democracy Docket: The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court order that blocks the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from executing the president’s March executive order attacking mail voting. The decision means President Donald Trump’s sweeping assault on mail voting won’t be carried out in 23 states and the District of Columbia. … Read More
Court rejects government request to lift injunction halting Trump’s election Executive Order and USPS rule
On Saturday the First Circuit affirmed Judge Indira Talwani’s injunction blocking implementation of key provisions of President Trump’s election executive order. The court concluded that the government had failed to make the “strong showing” required for the extraordinary remedy of a stay. At this point, the government can ask for the full First Circuit to review the case, or it … Read More
Increase in rejected ballots in California primary raise concerns about USPS postmarking changes
Associated Press: Nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state’s June primary, a spike from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting participation and counting every ballot. California has become notorious for its ponderously slow vote counts that can drag on for weeks and sometimes longer, largely the result of multiple … Read More
Rally to save the post office in West Park, NY
Daily Freeman: WEST PARK, N.Y. — Residents will rally outside their post office Friday, as the U.S. Postal Services shuts the doors to the West Park Post Office for the last time, leaving 170 families in the lurch. Residents of Esopus hamlet were informed by mail on June 23 that the post office would close “temporarily,” at the end of … Read More
Coalition urges Senate to reject nominations to USPS Board
The Save the Post Office Coalition, a member organization with over 300 national and state organizations including many retired and active postal workers, had written to the Senate urging member to vote NO and reject the nominations of Jeffrey Brodsky and William Gallo to serve on the United States Postal Service Board of Governors. (The Coalition is not affiliated with … Read More
Trump appeals a ruling that blocks parts of his order to restrict voting by mail
NPR: An executive order by President Trump that seeks to enlist the U.S. Postal Service to limit voting by mail has hit legal hurdles. On June 25, a Boston-based judge blocked key parts of the order that, at least so far, has not directly affected mail-in voting for this year’s midterm primary elections. That ruling by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a nominee … Read More