As Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Jason Chaffetz, (R-UT) is working to improve relationships with Democrats. He has visited ranking member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) in Cummings’ home district, and has invited longtime postal reform advocate Gerald Connolly (D-VA) to join the Subcommittee on Government Operations, which oversees the USPS. Democrats have praised Chaffetz’s efforts,…
The USPS is preparing to replace its fleet of long life vehicles or LLVs. On July 6, 2015 the Postal Service announced it has awarded a contract to Morgan Olson LLC to build 3,339 new delivery trucks. The contract is worth more than one quarter of a billion dollars. The new vehicle –“Walk-In Body Intermediate…
People may react faster to email advertisements, but they are more emotionally attached to hard copy mail, according to a USPS Inspector General (IG) June white paper. Direct mail made up 31% of USPS total revenue in 2014. The IG worked with Temple University’s Center for Neural Decision Making in a study to determine consumer’s…
Erica Farmer and Marc Whitacre couldn’t just slap on a coat of paint and move into their new house because their home is one of America’s treasures: an abandoned post office in Havre, Montana, that’s on the National Register of Historic Places. Read more