Keeping Christmas on track: On the road with a letter carrier (video)

By Leah Kirstein – December 20, 2015 YORK COUNTY, Pa – This holiday season the US Postal Service expects to deliver a total of approximately 15.5 billion pieces of mail. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, they expect to also deliver over 600 million packages.  For the second year in a row, they are delivering…

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USPS OIG Blog: One Small Step for First-Class Mail

December 21, 2015 Something happened in fiscal year 2015 that hasn’t happened in years. Commercial First-Class Mail volumes increased a tiny bit. And we do mean tiny. The 9,700-piece increase in First-Class Presort Cards and Letters doesn’t even register as a percentage point increase over last year. Still, this movement is enough to get people…

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