A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has issued a new order freezing President Donald Trump's attempt to limit mail voting for the midterm elections.

An appeals court has upheld a block on President Donald Trump’s order to limit mail voting.

New data show the number of ballots rejected for late postmarks has soared in the vote-by-mail states of Washington and Oregon.

A federal judge is extending a legal block on President Donald Trump’s plan to regulate mail ballots during the midterm elections.

The Trump administration is again asking the Supreme Court to let it move ahead with restrictions on mail ballots before the midterm elections in November even as legal wrangling over President Donald Trump’s executive order continues in lower courts.

A whistleblower for the U.S. Postal Service is warning that a new mail ballot system being hastily built to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order restricting that method of voting could lead to the rejection of huge numbers of mail ballots.

A federal judge is once again blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to limit mail voting in the midterm elections.

A federal judge has lifted a major obstacle to President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting, but Democratic state officials are already filing a new court challenge with the midterm elections fast approaching.

The U.S. Postal Service is emerging as a pivotal player as the midterm elections approach.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow for now an executive order targeting mail-in voting.

Nearly 150,000 voters have had their mail-in ballots rejected for California’s June primary election, a sharp spike from previous primaries.

A group of Democratic governors is asking the U.S. Postal Service to withdraw its proposed rule to comply with an executive order that seeks to create a federal list of eligible voters, including those eligible to receive a ballot by mail.

A federal judge has halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot.

The U.S. Postal Service is releasing a new series of stamps to honor Route 66’s centennial.

The American Postal Workers Union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail.

The U.S. Postal Service has decided to temporarily suspend its contributions to Federal Employees Retirement System annuities.

The U.S. Postal Service is seeking a temporary 8% extra charge on some of its most used shipping products to cover rising transportation costs.

The U.S. Postal Service is on track to run out of cash within a year unless Congress lets it borrow more.

A divided Supreme Court has ruled that Americans can’t sue the U.S. Postal Service, even when employees deliberately refuse to deliver mail.

A group of Democratic U.S. senators is voicing concern over U.S. Postal Service processing changes and what those could mean for voting with mail ballots.

A new U.S. Postal Service rule that took effect Dec. 24 changes when mail gets postmarked, potentially affecting bill payments and other time-sensitive documents.

The U.S. Postal Service says it intends to open its “last-mile” delivery network to large and small shippers, expanding beyond current arrangements with giants such as Amazon and UPS.

A Texas landlord's case before the U.S. Supreme Court is challenging the U.S. Postal Service's exemption from lawsuits over lost or mishandled mail.

In a story published Nov. 14, 2025, about the post office, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the U.S. Postal Service is 150 years old.

A lot of government continues during a federal shutdown.

The threat of a government shutdown has become a recurring event in Washington.

Melania Trump is inviting students in grades K-12 to participate in a government-sponsored nationwide contest using artificial intelligence.

The U.S. Postal Service is facing congressional attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding.

Thousands of people are gathering in New Mexico for a celebration showcasing Native American and Indigenous dancers, musicians and artisans from around the world.

The U.S. Postal Service is seeking a rate increase this summer that includes hiking the cost of a first-class stamp from 73 cents to 78 cents.

Betty White is making her mark on the nation's snail mail.

The U.S. Postal Service is facing an uncertain future after the resignation this week of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the suggestion by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk of possibly privatizing the mail service.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has resigned after nearly five years in the position.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget.

President Donald Trump says he may put the U.S. Postal Service under the control of the Commerce Department in what would amount to an executive branch takeover of the independent agency.

The head of the U.S. Postal Service, Louis DeJoy, says he intends to step down.

The federal civil service that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling has been a way for people of color, in particular Black Americans, to get a toehold into the middle class for decades, as other occupations were closed off because of racial discrimination or patronage.

President Donald Trump has paused the imposition of tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China.

The U.S. Postal Service is reversing course a day after placing a ban on all inbound packages from China and Hong Kong.

The U.S. Postal Service says nearly 100% of completed mail ballots were returned to election offices within a week during this year’s presidential contest.

Voters in two counties in Washington state and Oregon have not received mail-in ballots with less than a week to go before the election, election officials say.

The U.S. Postal Service says it has reopened all of its mail processing centers in areas of Florida and North Carolina hit by recent hurricanes.

Some 200,000 letter carriers have reached a tentative contract deal with the U.S. Postal Service that includes backdated pay raises and a promise to provide workers with air-conditioned trucks.

North Carolina election officials say they will do everything in their power to ensure that voters in the crucial presidential swing state will be able to cast their ballots despite the devastation of Hurricane Helene only about a month before the November election.

The U.S. Postal Service’s leader is expressing frustration with ongoing criticism of how it handles mail ballots.

As the U.S. Postal Service faces delivery slowdowns, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia, has proposed legislation to impose stricter oversight on who leads the agency.

The Postal Service’s new delivery vehicles aren’t going to win a beauty contest.

Election officials across the U.S. are warning that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election.

The U.S. Postal Service is ending discounts that shipping consolidators such as UPS and DHL use to get packages to the nation’s doorsteps, in a move meant to help the Postal Service slow losses but that could see the higher costs passed on to consumers.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says the U.S. Postal Service is ready for a flood of election mail.

The U.S. Postal Service hopes to save $3 billion a year through a series of changes reflecting greater reliance on streamlined regional networks.

A South Florida man has been sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for attacking a Muslim U.S. Postal Service worker and trying to pull off her hijab.

The U.S. Postal Service says it’s ready to resume operations at a post office in Titusville that was closed for weeks over mercury contamination.

A post office in Titusville will remain closed after mercury was found in a package.

A new forever postage stamp bearing the portrait of former first lady Betty Ford was unveiled at the White House Wednesday.

The price increases are scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 21, 2024.

Here's a guide for the last day to ship out Christmas gifts using either USPS, UPS or FedEx.

Carriers like the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and United Parcel Service have capacity to meet projected demand this holiday season, which is cheery news for shoppers and shippers alike.

The U.S. Postal Service says law enforcement officials have charged more than 600 people with postal crimes since launching a crackdown in May.

The U.S. Postal Service is rolling out its latest special edition postage stamps, paying homage to a Hispanic tradition that has evolved over centuries to become a universal symbol of celebration.

The U.S. Postal Service has reduced its volume of shipments by aircraft by 90% over two years, putting the service on course to save $1 billion in annual transportation costs.

Two Ocala men pleaded guilty in the robbery of three U.S. Postal Service letter carriers that occurred in Florida last year.

A Ponca tribe chief whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law was honored with the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp that features his portrait.

The U.S. Postal Service is replacing thousands of antiquated keys used by postal carriers and installing thousands of high-security collection boxes to stop a surge in robberies and mail thefts.

Postal carriers have more worries than snow, rain or the gloom of night keeping them from their appointed rounds.

For years skateboarding was branded as a hobby for rebels or stoners in city streets, schoolyards and back alleys.

Orange County Sheriff John Mina and the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation on Thursday announced 35 arrests made during a recent multi-agency drug trafficking case involving Puerto Rico, the U.S. Postal Service and “hundreds of kilos of cocaine.”

A Central Florida man accused of robbing three U.S. Postal Service letter carriers in October 2022 has entered into a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, court records show.

The U.S. Postal Service is buying 9,250 Ford Motor Co. electric vans and 14,000 charging stations as part of a move to switch its fleet to electric vehicles.

The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new stamp celebrating women’s soccer on Thursday in Orlando.

A man was arrested Wednesday in connection to three robberies of Floridian U.S. Postal Service letter carriers in October 2022, according to federal court records.

The U.S. Postal Service says it delivered more than 54 million ballots during the midterm elections, with nearly 99% of ballots delivered to election officials within three days.

The Postal Service says it will sharply increase the number of electric-powered delivery trucks in its fleet and will go all-electric for new purchases starting in 2026.

The late congressman and civil rights giant John Lewis will be honored with a postage stamp in 2023.

A federal judge has set limits on one of the Postal Service’s cost-cutting practices that contributed to a slowdown of mail deliveries ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

President Joe Biden often promises to lead by example by moving quickly to convert the U.S. government fleet to zero-emission electric vehicles.

Officials say five dogs attacked a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service when her truck broke down in north Florida.

The U.S. Postal Service is honoring NASA’s powerful new telescope on its latest Forever stamp.

The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating the release of a new series of stamps honoring the traditional Mexican genre of mariachi.

Sending mail through U.S. Postal Service will cost a little more, starting this weekend.

The U.S. postmaster general says Americans should get used to “uncomfortable” postage rate increases.

President Joe Biden has signed into law plans for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service.

A government watchdog says the U.S. Postal Service's environmental evaluation used for purchases of next-generation delivery vehicles relied on some false assumptions.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says the Justice Department has closed without criminal charges an investigation into political fundraising activity at his former business.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into a U.S. Postal Service plan to replace its aging mail trucks with mostly gasoline-powered vehicles.

Congress has passed legislation that would shore up the U.S. Postal Service.

The U.S. Postal Service says it has cleared the final regulatory hurdle to placing orders for next-generation mail vehicles.

The Biden administration has quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to officially launch.

A USPS employee in Ocala was arrested on mail theft charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced on Friday.

Big changes already underway at the U.S. Postal Service could impact your holiday mail.

The nation's three largest package delivery services are out with their holiday shipping deadlines.

Trooper Steve answers viewer questions.

The three U.S. Postal Service workers who died in a shooting at a Tennessee sorting facility included a supervisor, a manager and a letter carrier temporarily assigned to the postal annex.

Postal workers are back on the job at a sorting facility in Tennessee, hours after a co-worker turned it into a crime scene.

According to the their website, USPS suggests shipping retail ground mail by Dec. 15, first class mail by Dec. 17, priority mail by Dec. 18 and priority mail express by Dec. 23 if you want your packages to arrive by Christmas.

Police say a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service died when a sports utility vehicle ran a stop sign in a Florida neighborhood and crashed into his vehicle.

U.S Postal Service is proposing a holiday surcharge to offset rising delivery costs.

An Alaska Native artist has created a new stamp for the U.S. Postal Service.

The U.S. Postal Service’s plans to raise postage rates could present one more damaging blow to community newspapers already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and advertising declines.

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