The USPS' new cost-cutting strategy will make millions of customers wait even longer to receive their letters and packages, starting next month. If you're like me, sending a letter or package across the country through the US Postal Service feels like a game of chance. Will it get there in a week -- or two? During the first quarter of this year, around 20% of first-class mail across the US was delivered late. And now snail mail is about to get slower for some of the 160 million residences and businesses that rely on the Postal Service.

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has scrapped one of the West Michigan’s four flat mail sorting machines because the catalog and magazine mail volume is down, according to union representatives. The remains of the massive machine, which has five feed stations and sorts thousands of catalogs and magazines every day, were being disposed of Wednesday, Aug. 19 at the USPS facility on Patterson Avenue in Kentwood.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, postal workers have been on the front lines, considered “essential workers” who must continue to do their jobs as usual while others stay home. But …

The UN's Universal Postal Union (UPU) says digital transformation across member countries is occurring at varying rates and inadvertently creating a new kind of digital divide in cross-border e-commerce.

USPS leaving the UPU in October which may raise postage to $60 for absentee ballots mailed from overseas. Technology vendors may need to find a quick electronic alternative.

Police have identified a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier pinned and killed by her own mail truck on Wednesday, March 21 in Washtenaw County's Lyndon Township. Tracy Sylo, 56, of Pinckney was killed in the crash about 1:30 p.m. while trying to deliver a package to a residence on Blind Lake Road, according to a release by Michigan State Police.

Every day postal trucks drop off about 4,000 packages at a US Postal Service station in central Tennessee, where they’re unloaded by a team of around six USPS employees. Each person grabs a box, rushes to the only scanning machine, runs the bar code, and then places it in the proper gurney for its route. The process takes about 10 seconds, and it can be repeated as many as 200 times in an hour.

For almost two centuries, the humble-seeming mail was a hotbed of invention. What happened?

A writer becomes a carrier for the United States Postal Service out of a long-held love for the mail. What she discovers are screams, threats, lies, labor violations, and dog attacks. By Jess Stoner.

Suspect routinely checked tracking on shipments of methylone from China.

Through an unusually tough winter, postal workers have moved the mail every day. The only thing that will stop the mail is Congress.

I was on my way to send out a package...