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Three New York residents face life in prison for their roles in the kidnapping of a U.S. postal worker who they accused of stealing a package containing drugs, federal prosecutors say. Mark Rogers, 38; Joseph Way, 36; and Rogers’ girlfriend, Tashara Levans, 37, all of Rochester, pleaded guilty to kidnapping in the November 2019 incident, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York announced in a Dec. 15 news release. The postal worker, identified in court documents as “Victim A,” was delivering mail when Rogers and Way confronted her about a package of cocaine they were expecting...

USPS Test: We mailed 4 packages with GPS trackers to see how quickly they got there

"This change may result in mailed statements, new or replacement cards, and payments you mail, taking longer to arrive." - I received this message in my online bank account this evening. I have a different account that is required to mail me a monthly hard copy. Five years ago, that statement would arrive before the 10th. More recently, around the 15th. This month, already the 20th, and still no statement. Let's Go, Brandon!

The United State Postal Service has suspended all mail service, including parcle post and Priority Mail, to Australia and New Zeeland. Labor shortages are cited as the cause.https://10play.com.au/theproject/articles/united-states-postal-service-suspends-deliveries-to-australia/tpa211004rfcgb

The United States Postal Service projects that it will have a $160 billion loss over the coming decade, so it needs to boost revenue and cut costs. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy thinks he has the answer: offer slower service. That's right, DeJoy's blueprint for making the USPS solvent includes cutting costs by slowing mail delivery for millions of Americans coupled with hoped-for increased revenues from postage rate hikes, CBS News reported. However, critics have been quick to point out that this will likely discourage people from using the Post Office. What's happening? Starting Friday, DeJoy said, the postal service will...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) could sign a new bill making California’s “temporary” system of automatically sending vote-by-mail ballots to every registered voter in the state permanent, whether he is recalled in Tuesday’s election or not. The bill, AB 37, would make the emergency measures adopted in 2020, and later extended in February 2021, permanent. It has already passed both houses of the California state legislature, and merely awaits Newsom’s signature. He could sign it today; he could also sign it in the interim before the results of the recall election are certified Oct. 22, even if he is ousted.

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...

Hi all. I’ve tried looking at the stupid USPS site and of course can’t find anything. Can you tell me what should be done? Bottom line: I now have 3 things in my org’s P.O. Box as returned mail....BUT THE *RETURN* ADDRESS IS WRONG. We are NOT the senders! Can we make this clear that this sender is somehow putting our # on his labels and not his? He might be just 1 digit off but the P.O. is not paying attention.

Hindsight is 20/20, and now numbers from the 2020 election show how Nevada made a mistake rushing to automatic mail ballots. Dirty voter rolls combined with automatic mail made the 2020 election a mess in Nevada.Concrete post-election data show that 92,367 mail ballots sent out by Clark County election officials came back as undeliverable. They had incorrect or outdated addresses.That means they were sent where the registered voter did not live. That means someone else could have snatched those misdirected live ballots. That means someone probably did.This unfortunate number is unwelcome considering President Joe Biden only carried Nevada by 33,596...

Historic mail delays nationwide have made customers wait patiently for their bills, paychecks, and potentially life-saving prescription medications. Such issues might have been expected over the winter holiday season, but even in the month of March, Americans are still seeing the U.S. Postal Service beset by continuing delays in delivering the mail. Last week, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy apologized for those delays in a testimony before the House Oversight Committee, but attributed many of the problems to lack of financial stability and resources—later claiming that the postal system is “in a death spiral.”

Mark Currie of Virginia had three checks snagged in postal delays in three months. In New Jersey, Lois Fitton says she was forced to pay interest on a credit card balance because the bill never arrived. Jim Rice says two insurance companies canceled policies for his property management business in Oklahoma after the payments got lost in the mail. As the service crisis at the U.S. Postal Service drags into its eighth month, complaints are reaching a fever pitch. Consumers are inundating members of Congress with stories of late bills — and the late fees they’ve absorbed as a result....

...One America’s Jack Posobiec spoke with a French member of the European Parliament Jérôme Rivière to see whether foreign countries use the same kinds of election practices as the U.S. Riviere told One America News France banned mail-in ballots in 1975 because it was too easy to cheat. Now the Macron government is pushing early voting through machine voting but the senate refused to pass the amendment. Jerome says, “We don’t find it safe enough.”...

Staff ReportState lawmakers brushed aside criticism from government accountability groups and citizens this week, moving forward with a bill that would extend the process of sending unrequested ballots to all registrants on California’s poorly maintained voter rolls. In a letter of opposition, the Election Integrity Project California (EIPCa) included the preliminary numbers of deceased or relocated individuals who actually “voted,” an indication of irregularities and potential fraud. “In November 2020, well over 440,000 questionable ballots were sent to registrants likely deceased or moved, and that 24,000 registrants were sent 2 or more ballots,” Ruth Weiss, EIPCa director of legislative oversight...

Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos (D) is hoping to make universal vote-by-mail a permanent fixture in the Green Mountain State, he announced on Wednesday. The state leader is actively supporting state lawmakers in their efforts to make universal vote-by-mail the new normal in the state following the 2020 presidential election, in which the state sent ballots to every registered voter.

President Joe Biden’s coronavirus response team is considering mailing millions of masks to Americans to encourage mask-wearing as the coronavirus pandemic continues. A White House official told NBC News Biden’s coronavirus response team is evaluating the idea but no decision has been made or proposed to the president.

The Virginia Board of Elections rule allowing officials to count ballots that arrived without a postmark up to three days after the election was illegal, a state judge ruled.

Basically, Bloomberg wrote an article that reported, that Amazon is arguing, that a National Labor Relations Board decision to approve vote by mail (regarding an Amazon v labor union issue) promotes a risk of fraud. Vote by mail, being justified by a fear of COVID-19. Website 'Nation and State' wrote its own synopsis of the matter; and that may be viewed at the provided link, above.

Mail and parcel delivery during the holiday season is taxing U.S. carriers, according to data. An estimated six million packages are being left stranded daily as they await pickup, according to ShipMatrix, a software company that helps retailers and others track shipments. Another 2.5 million packages are being picked up but not being delivered on time. CBS News.com reported FedEx, UPS, Amazon, U.S. Postal Service, and other shippers are all being slammed by the demand, heightened by on-line consumer activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Our entire industry is underwater because of the demand," said Satish Jindel, president of ShipMatrix, who...

1. My mail address is 60 miles from Cleveland Oh 2. Our main PO drive up drop boxes were reduced to ONE from THREE a couple weeks before the election >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yesterday, I got a message from one of our local govt offices to say that they apologized for getting back to me SO late. My correspondence to them (Utility issue) had been sent out on Dec 4. Their mail response to me was post marked from Cleveland Ohio. Also - yesterday a card was delivered to me -from a local sender ...also with a Cleveland Oh post mark Is...