The Postal Service has successfully licensed its brand for other products, including Vans sneakers "
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"...Kauffman says she and her husband were alerted by their dog Stanley Friday afternoon when he started barking after a van drove into their Bexley driveway.
"The postal van had pulled all the way up our driveway and parked by our garage," said Kauffman. "After a few minutes, I saw someone get out of the far side and dump something in our own recycling."..."
"...members of the Domestic Policy Council have convened repeatedly with the Postal Service’s largest customers — including Amazon — about the agency’s persistent delivery struggles, leadership and balance-sheet woes, according to five people familiar with the meetings, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of private conversations. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)..."
"The USPS Office of Inspector General attributed the delivery delays at a Missouri City processing center to a variety of problems, including staffing shortages, oversights by management, reporting errors, lapses in communication, safety issues and a general state of disarray. ..."
"An audit report released Thursday found hundreds of thousands of pieces of delayed mail and several safety issues plaguing a U.S. Postal...USPS Office of Inspector General conducted an unannounced site visit at the South Houston Local Mail Processing Center in Missouri City from Jan. 28 to Jan. 30..."
"NPMHU-USPS Joint Contract Interpretation Manual (CIM) Version 6 has been completed and is being released..."
"USPS has notified the Postal Regulatory Commission of mailing services price changes to take effect Sunday, July 14.
• The proposed adjustments, approved by the Postal Service governors, would raise mailing services product prices approximately 7.8 percent. ...• Letters (1 ounce): 68 cents (current), 73 cents (planned)
• Letters (metered 1 ounce): 64 cents (current), 69 cents (planned)"
"...the USPS said the agreement with UPS will be for a minimum of five and a half years and implementation of the new contract is scheduled to begin on Sept. 30, 2024. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ..."