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Postal workers are being investigated over claims they ate weed brownies from an unclaimed parcel and had to be collected from work because they were too high
One postal worker was filmed in an Instagram video saying that he had eaten four weed brownies from…
Kate Duffy
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Say goodbye to the iconic mail truck — the postal service is electrifying its fleet, beginning with more than 9,000 new vehicles
The USPS is slated to put more than 9,000 electric mail trucks on the road. It's the first move in …
Aidan Pollard
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A South Korean mailman got a prison sentence for throwing out 16,000 pieces of mail. He said he was 'overworked.'
A Korean mailman was sentenced to six months in prison for discarding 16,000 pieces of mail. He bla…
Joshua Zitser
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I'm a mailman for USPS who's delivered hundreds of COVID-19 tests in one day. Here's what the job is like right now.
"If I'm past eight hours but still have deliveries to make, I just keep on going," a veteran USPS m…
Jenny Powers
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Postal workers are being attacked by dogs so much that they must avoid delivery in certain areas forcing people to pick up their own mail
Dog bites are the third most common injury sustained by delivery workers behind slips and falls and…
Emma Cosgrove
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A World War II soldier's letter to his mother from 1945 has just been delivered to his surviving widow, 76 years after sending it
"Imagine that! Seventy-six years!" Angelina Gonsalves, widow to Army sergeant John Gonsalves, told …
Yelena Dzhanova
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USPS managers deleted workers' extra hours and cheated them of $659,000 in pay, report finds
The Center for Public Integrity found at least 250 USPS managers changed employee time cards to ref…
Ayelet Sheffey
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A former mail carrier and devout Christian who refused to deliver Amazon packages on Sundays is taking the US Postal Service to the Supreme Court for bias
Gerald Groff, an evangelical Christian, is suing USPS, saying he was reprimanded for refusing to de…
Bethany Dawson
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Holiday shipping is going to be chaotic and expensive this year
For the first time ever, USPS is temporarily charging more for shipping during the busiest time of …
Ben Gilbert
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It's Columbus Day on Monday - here's what's open and closed
On Columbus Day- or Indigenous Peoples' Day - the post office and most banks are closed, while the …
Heather Schlitz
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US Postal Service hit with lawsuit over DeJoy's plan to slow delivery of first-class mail
The lawsuit accuses USPS of adopting "significant and nationwide changes" without following proper …
Charles Davis
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US postal workers say agency's productivity tracking and inconsistent training is life-threatening amid extreme heat
The concerns come after Eugene Gates Jr., a USPS letter carrier in Texas, died while delivering his…
Katie Hawkinson
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Ukraine's postal service is a Kremlin target. They showed us how they're still delivering the mail.
Ukraine's postmaster general showed Insider his mobile operation that's delivering crucial mail to …
Alan Chin
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21 attorneys general oppose USPS plan to delay first-class mail, warning 4- to 5-day delivery times could have 'significant' impact on mail-in ballots
Critics argue the Postal Service is betraying its duty to provide quality service to rural communit…
Charles Davis
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Congress established the US Postal Service as both a business and a service. That may be its fatal flaw.
The Postal Service is in financial turmoil and pleading for a bailout. Some of those problems go ba…
Tim Levin
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Cash-strapped USPS announces major changes that could mean higher postage rates and slower first-class mail delivery
The agency reported over $9 billion in net losses in 2020 as the pandemic caused mail delivery rate…
Grace Panetta
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Yes, your mail is getting slower, America. The postmaster general's changes at the US Postal Service are causing longer delivery times.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has implemented the mail slowdown as part of his 10-year plan to rev…
Connor Perrett
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As coronavirus cases among US Postal Service employees surpass 1,200, many say they're not receiving adequate sanitation supplies, sick pay, or care from supervisors
"A coworker stated that a supervisor coughed in his direction less than a few feet away as a joke,"…
Alanis King
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Financial fraudsters are targeting postal workers to steal their mailbox keys, so USPS is trying something new
Efforts include installing high-security collection boxes, adding electronic locks, and preventing …
Bethany Biron
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I've been a postal worker for 17 years, and I'm unnerved by the current situation: 'It's getting scarier'
"We've had our jobs threatened," says a veteran postal employee. "We've been told, 'If you like you…