USPS OIG Blog: No Time like the Present

Posted on July 6, 2015July 6, 2015 by 21cpw

It’s Christmas in July for the retail industry. Holiday decorations might not hit stores for a few more months, but retailers are now working on their 2015 holiday plans. And you can bet that shipping strategies are a big part of those plans. Online sales made up about 10 percent of the $616 billion in…

Video: New Technology – a “panic button” – will help keep USPS postal carriers safer

Posted on July 6, 2015July 6, 2015 by 21cpw

By Mark Albert – July 5, 2015 The unofficial U.S. postal creed says neither rain, nor sleet, nor heat, nor gloom of night will keep carriers from their rounds. Thieves and vicious dogs, however, may be another matter. So the Post Office is delivering a solution. In broad daylight in Washington, D.C., last year, two…