Tag: USPS

A pitbull named "Lucy" participates a the U.S. Postal Service "National Dog Bite Prevention Week" during an awareness event in at the YMCA in Los Angeles Thursday, April 6, 2017. Dog attacks on postal workers rose last year to 6,755, up 206 from the previous year and the highest in three decades, as internet shopping booms and consumers increasingly demand seven-day-a-week package delivery and groceries dropped at their doorstep. Los Angeles topped the 2016 list with 80 attacks on postal workers, followed by Houston with 62 and Cleveland with 60. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)

Postal worker dies after pack of dogs attacks her in Florida

Victor I. Nava · August 24, 2022 6:39 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

The cultural roots of Ukraine’s wartime love of stamp collecting

Vladislav Davidzon · August 19, 2022 3:00 am

Smoke from a flash-bang rises on Pine Street east of Westlake Park.

Peaceful protest at Westlake Park and more violent group nearby.

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USPS to raise rates for holidays

Brady Knox · August 11, 2022 8:42 pm

Energy and Environment

Postal Service purchasing more electric vehicles to replace aging fleet

Jack Birle · July 20, 2022 9:00 pm

The most dangerous cities to deliver mail over dog attacks

Asher Notheis · June 9, 2022 12:00 am

Jill Biden unveils stamp of former first lady Nancy Reagan

Misty Severi · June 6, 2022 12:00 am

FILE - This April 7, 2014 file photo shows Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, speaking in Washington. Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, is highlighting female empowerment, education and leadership on a tour of three African countries this week. She is scheduled to arrive in Lusaka, Zambia on Tuesday. Biden is scheduled to be accompanied in Zambia by Rajiv Shah, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Stops also are planned in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone before Biden returns to Washington next week. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Jill Biden to honor Nancy Reagan with postal stamp unveiling

Ryan King · June 1, 2022 9:24 pm

The federal government announced a third round of free at-home COVID-19 tests available to U.S. households beginning May 16, 2022.

Round three: Free at-home COVID-19 tests available for delivery again

Heather Hamilton · May 17, 2022 1:32 pm

A postal worker loads a delivery vehicle at the United States Post Office in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania.

Robberies against mail carriers tripled since 2018: Report

Jenny Goldsberry · April 23, 2022 10:51 pm

Energy and Environment

Postal Service defies White House with plan to replace fleet with gas vehicles

Breanne Deppisch · February 23, 2022 8:07 pm

Postal bailout will expand Medicare spending at taxpayer expense

Mike Palicz · February 6, 2022 12:00 am

A lab technician working a bottle containing for COVID-19 vaccine testing at Chula Vaccine Research Center, run by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 25, 2020. Thai health officials said that scientists in Thailand have had promising results in testing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate on mice, and have begun testing on monkeys.

Unions emerge as unlikely opponents of vaccine mandates

Sarah Bedford · February 2, 2022 11:00 am