(September 26, 2014) The U.S. Postal Service wants to save you a trip to the supermarket. The USPS is seeking approval from the Postal Regulatory Commission to deliver fresh groceries to private residences. The Postal Service submitted a proposal for a two-year test of the plan on Tuesday. It would offer the service in multiple…
(September 27, 2014) The U.S. Postal Service is besieged by financial losses, and the cavalry doesn’t appear to be coming. After years of debate, Congress remains stalled on legislation to prop up an agency weighed down by heavy employee costs and still struggling to remake itself in the Internet era. Two years ago, lawmakers worked…
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(September 25, 2014) SPRING BRANCH — To state transportation officials, a new detour of U.S. 281 around the post office here is just a temporary glitch in an otherwise successful $30.5 million project to widen the heavily-used highway. Once the federal facility relocates, a contractor will demolish the building and put down the last few…
New York Times Stresses the Importance of Older Voters According to The New York Times, older voters this year are not favoring Republicans by the overwhelming 21 points that they did in the 2010 midterm elections. Democratic pollster Geoff Garin suggests that even a small shift by older voters will have an outsized impact on…
Audit Report – DP-AR-14-007 – 09/26/2014 Background A detail assignment is the temporary placement of a career employee in another established position that is vacant or from which the incumbent is absent. U.S. Postal Service policy requires detail assignments to be made only for the shortest period of time necessary and used to meet emergencies…
