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The U.S. Postal Service is set to unveil its new stamp honoring late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this October. The Postal Service announced Thursday it will hold a first-day-of-issue ceremony in October for the new Forever stamp commemorating Ginsburg’s legacy. Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87 in 2020 due to complications from pancreatic cancer. She served on the Supreme Court for 27 years. The stamp features an oil painting of Ginsburg wearing her black judicial robe and white collar. Postal Service art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamp with art by Michael J. Deas, which was...

There's been an alarming rise in Made in China counterfeit postage stamps here in America ... The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been struggling for years, saddled with an outmoded business model and huge retiree pension liabilities. And now, added to its inflationary and management woes comes a new threat: counterfeit stamps from China marketed online through paid ads on Google and Facebook, among other platforms. Counterfeiting currency, bonds, or other government paper of value is a form of warfare. The British printed Continental paper dollars to undermine the American economy during the Revolutionary War. The Union encouraged counterfeiting against...

Jesse Morgan drove a tractor trailer for a contractor working for the U.S. Postal Service. Shortly after the 2020 election, Morgan made these claims at a press conference held by the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society: On October 21, 2020, Jesse drove his truck and trailer from Bethpage, New York, to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, loaded with as many as 288,000 completed ballots. In addition, there were two large trays of mixed mail, bound for Lancaster. Those were in the front of the trailer. Jesse drove the trailer to Harrisburg, but was not allowed to unload. After a six-hour wait,...

The cost of mailing a letter or bill could rise three cents this summer after the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) moved Monday to launch previously threatened moves for a postage price hike as Bidenflation hits the service. The increase in mailing services prices will become effective July 9. That means the cost of a First-Class Mail Forever stamp could increase 5.4 percent, from 63 cents to 66 cents.

After the initial message out from mountain towns looking to learn more about what it would take to sue the United States Postal Service, the towns of Avon, Buena Vista, Parachute, Silverthorne, Snowmass Village, and Steamboat Springs, along with the town of Crested Butte have all retained the services of Kaplan Kirsh Rockwell LLP as their chosen team to look further into a lawsuit. Dara MacDonald, Town Manager for Crested Butte, received several of complaints from these towns. She's not frustrated with the staff themselves but frustrated with the way that they are supported by the USPS, or the lack...

Chicago — A US Postal Service mail carrier was robbed by two men in Logan Square on Friday evening, the latest crime in an ongoing assault on the mail system in Chicago. “Never put anything into the postal system unless you are comfortable with it landing in the hands of criminals instead of at its intended destination,” advised an investigative source. Like dozens of other mail carriers, the postal worker robbed on Friday was targeted for her “arrow key,” a US Postal Service universal master key that opens collection boxes, parcel lockers, mailbox panels, and apartment building mailroom boxes. The...

A high-level U.S. Postal Service official appointed under President Joe Biden was caught during a child sex sting, admitting “I’m a pedophile” on camera. Russell Rappel-Schmid, the Chief Data Officer for the U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), was caught in San Diego, California attempting to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex. The PRC is responsible for overseeing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) – which deals with mail-in ballots during election season – and Rappel-Schmid was tasked with running the commission’s data management and compliance with the OPEN Government Data Act.

Santa Monica police arrested the man suspected of assaulting or harassing three letter carriers in a three-month period - but he is back on the street because authorities say his crimes aren't enough to keep him behind bars. Residents of the 1300 block of 14th Street haven't gotten their mail for half a week because of three attacks by Davon Ray Morgan, 38, on postal workers since January, according to the United States Postal Service. 'Delivery is temp suspended; this is an unusual, but a necessary step to protect our employees,' USPS spokeswoman Natasha Garvin tweeted on Monday. **SNIP** Jim...

Even with the pandemic, the U.S Postal Service delivered on its obligations to deliver cards and packages to family and friends during the holiday season. Now Congress is finally ready to deliver a much-needed Postal Service Reform Act (H.R. 3076, S.1720). This legislation involves tradeoffs and compromises that won’t fully satisfy all stakeholders. But Congress should keep focused on the positive principal points of the bill and not trip over distractions some parties are throwing in its way. The proposed law would facilitate the continued expansion of e-commerce. E-commerce is a crucial lifeline during the pandemic, especially for smaller enterprises...

U.S. Postal Service employees are exempt from the Biden administration’s new coronavirus-vaccine requirements for federal workers and large companies, White House officials told the Washington Post on Thursday evening. -snip- However, those requirements do not extend to the USPS, a federal agency that employs over 644,000 people. “We strongly encourage them to comply with these standards,” White House officials told the Post. It was not immediately clear why the administration’s vaccination requirements do not extend to the Postal Service.

One of the reasons why the federal mandate for vaccinations will fail will be the backlash and refusal compliance by the blue-collar workforce. While the U.S. ideological media will downplay the scale of power within the middle-class and blue-collar workforce, they know the true power exists. The team behind Biden might poke this bear to test a reaction, but they will not dare confront it directly. They know that. WE know that. The 220,000 members of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) released a statement saying the federal government has no business attempting to force vaccinate the workforce. This union...

Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and its inspection agency seeking records about a covert program to secretly comb through online posts of social media users before street protests, raising concerns about chilling the privacy and expressive activity of internet users. Under an initiative called Internet Covert Operations Program, analysts at the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the Postal Service’s law enforcement arm, sorted through massive amounts of data created by social media users to surveil what they were saying and sharing, according to media reports. Internet...

The U.S. Postal Service is the only package delivery service that continues to deliver to every address in the nation. Without its dependable delivery of life-saving medications, essential goods and other necessities to any and every door throughout the pandemic, many Americans would have had nowhere else to turn but to a private carrier like UPS, which was all too willing to hike up surcharges at the height of the pandemic. Supply chain strains, store closures and unprecedented demand for delivery services threw previous industry projections to the wind this past year. Despite these factors, the U.S. Postal Service was...

I called trying to get some answers for the horrible service the USPS is still giving ( missing checks/packages, etc). Local post office is frustrated and said consumer affairs knows the situation. They acted like it was a waste of time to call. I called one of my senatorial swamp creatures office (D) and got a peon. They still are playing politics. They were talking about adding sorting machines and overtime. Covid and union crap. I don't see it getting better.

A San Jose community is in limbo and left wondering if their personal information, credit cards, and other packages are in the hands of a thief. That's because last week a surveillance camera captured someone clearing out a postal truck near the Evergreen community. The United States postal inspector is asking for the public's help to capture the suspect committing what they said is a very serious federal crime. Surveillance video from Sturla Drive shows a man, who is not a postal service employee, opening the sliding back door of a mail truck. He then brings in a woman, and...

The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.

The US Postal Service on Tuesday revealed its next-generation of mail trucks, the biggest step in a fleet-modernization effort years in the making. The agency awarded the long-awaited contract to build the new vehicles to defense contractor Oshkosh Defense. Under the deal, the Postal Service will pay Oshkosh $482 million to finish designing the futuristic-looking truck — called the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) — and build between 50,000 and 165,000 of them over the next decade. The first ones will hit streets in 2023, the Postal Service said. For several years, the post office has planned to revamp its...

A House Democrat on Friday proposed the creation of a Presidential Crimes Commission, a panel that would investigate allegations against President Trump and his administration after he leaves office. "I don’t say this lightly: when we escape this Trump hell, America needs a Presidential Crimes Commission. It should be made up of independent prosecutors who look at those who enabled a corrupt president. Example 1: Sabotaging the mail to win an election. #SaveThePostOffice," U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., tweeted. Swalwell’s tweet follows a recent statement by President Trump that he would actively prevent Democrats from being able to fund the...

Agent Strasser: “I am trying to twist you a little bit” “I am scaring you here”...” we have Senators involved...DOJ involved...reason they called me is to try to harness that storm.”

A United States Postal Service whistleblower revealed his identity on Friday after higher-ups saw his Thursday interview with Project Veritas. According to Richard Hopkins, a carrier in Erie, Pennsylvania, his supervisors and others above him were ordering carriers to backdate ballots that were received after Election Day. Once Hopkins' bosses pieced together that he was the whistleblower, he was allegedly relieved of duty. ... higher-ups brought up other issues they had with the whistleblower in the past once they saw the original interview with Project Veritas. They said that I was, because of certain factors, I was kind of implicated...