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A San Gabriel Valley woman pleaded guilty to defrauding over $150 million from the U.S. Postal Service. Lijuan “Angela” Chen, 51, of Walnut, carried out the scheme by using counterfeit postage to ship tens of millions of packages, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. From November 2019 to May 2023, Chen and her accomplice, Chuanhua “Hugh” Hu, 51, owned and operated a package shipping business in the City of Industry.

Chicago — A US Postal Service mail carrier was robbed by two men in Logan Square on Friday evening, the latest crime in an ongoing assault on the mail system in Chicago. “Never put anything into the postal system unless you are comfortable with it landing in the hands of criminals instead of at its intended destination,” advised an investigative source. Like dozens of other mail carriers, the postal worker robbed on Friday was targeted for her “arrow key,” a US Postal Service universal master key that opens collection boxes, parcel lockers, mailbox panels, and apartment building mailroom boxes. The...

President Joe Biden announced plans Friday to nominate two new members to the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, a potential first step in removing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.... Biden is replacing two of DeJoy’s backers on the board, chair Ron Bloom and John Barger. However, the president would likely have to make additional appointments as terms expire in order for the board to replace DeJoy, since the board is responsible for choosing the postmaster general. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at Friday’s news briefing that the administration is “deeply troubled” by reports of DeJoy’s “potential financial conflicts...

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.”

Among Democrats and their media allies, it is an article of faith that Donald Trump is plotting to steal the 2020 election. In August, Mark Joseph Stern wrote at Slate that Trump was planning to subvert the U.S. Postal Service to prevent ballots from reaching their destinations in time. Amanda Marcotte has a lengthy essay in Salon, detailing all the nefarious means Trump and his supporters will employ to this end.Vanity Fair recently detailed the planning Democrats are undertaking to thwart Trump’s plots. The Washington Post even ran a news article entitled “Here’s One Way Trump Could Try to...

The USPS's 4 percent failure rate for election mail is unacceptable. Changes must be made to ensure 100 percent on-time delivery and processing of ballots. In the latest contribution to the Democratic Party and corporate media hysteria accusing President Trump of attempting to destroy the U.S. Postal Service, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has summoned the Democratic-led House back to Washington to pass emergency legislation prohibiting changes in the postal service’s operations until after the election. This is yet another in a string of bad ideas from Pelosi.Yet there are some important management and systems changes that USPS and local...

Subtitle: On Sale Today Nationwide Special Ceremony to be Held at Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY, Monday, June 13The U.S. Postal Service today dedicated the Eid Greetings Forever Stamp recognizing the two most important festivals — or eids — in the Islamic calendar: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The ceremony was held at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn.In addition, a special Eid Greetings stamp ceremony will be held Monday, June 13, at 11 a.m. EDT at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, KY.The Postal Service has issued stamps to commemorate these two Islamic holidays since 2001.SNIPBray was joined...

In just about seven weeks, people will be able to start buying Obamacare-approved insurance plans through the new health care exchanges. But already, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is predicting those plans, and the whole system of distributing them, will eventually be moot. Reid said he thinks the country has to “work our way past” insurance-based health care during a Friday night appearance on Vegas PBS’ program “Nevada Week in Review.” “What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever,” Reid said. When then asked...

A week ago, when reading between the lines of what had heretofore been considered an inevitable USPS episode of austerity in which hundreds of thousands of labor union workers would lose their jobs but in the process would streamline a thoroughly outdated and inefficient US Postal Office bureaucracy, we asked if a US Postal Service bailout was imminent, focusing on the following: "Enter Ron Bloom, Lazard, and the very same crew that ended up getting a taxpayer funded bailout for GM. From the WSJ: "The Postal Service's proposal to close thousands of post offices and cut back on the number...

In an attempt to stem its financial hemorrhaging, the U.S. Postal Service is seeking to reduce its workforce by 20 percent, including through layoffs now prohibited by union contracts. USPS also wants to withdraw its employees from the health and retirement plans that cover federal staffers and create its own benefit programs for postal employees. This major restructuring of the Postal Service’s relationship with its workforce would need congressional approval and would face fierce opposition from postal unions. But if approved, eliminating contract provisions that prevent layoffs and quitting the federal employee health and retirement programs could have ramifications for...

WASHINGTON - The Washington Post is reporting that the U.S. Postal Service is expected to detail how it plans to cut about 7,500 administrative positions. Postal officials previously announced plans to cut the 7,500 positions in January, and Thursday's announcement clarifies which positions are impacted. The job cuts are expected to impact about 2,000 postmasters. Cutting postmasters is especially noteworthy, because it will likely prompt USPS to close the post offices they operate. Though 7,500 seems like an impressive figure, remember the Postal Service still has about 520,000 full-time workers; another 234,000 employees left in the last decade on their...

Some 20,000 pieces of mail - many more than a decade old - have been recovered from a postman's garage in the US city of Philadelphia. Tubs of undelivered letters were discovered in April when the US Postal Service worker missed several days of work and managers visited his home. The FBI said it took more than three postal vans to remove the mail, some of which dated back to 1997. Investigators are still trying to find the postman so they can question him....

, bills and even a college acceptance letter from 2007 were among 20,000 letters found inside the garage of a Philadelphia postal carrier. When the mailman missed several days of work in April, postal officials went to his Port Richmond home and found tubs and tubs of undelivered and unopened mail. The postal worker, who has yet to be identified, worked out of the Bustleton station in Northeast Philadelphia. The neighborhood most impacted is located near Castor Avenue and Benton Street. One of those affected was desperate to receive a $900 check in December 2007. The letter just arrived on...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all. During Christmas seasons for decades, these dedicated elves responded to thousands of letters addressed to "Santa Claus, North Pole." All that was ending with a U.S. Postal Service decision to discontinue the program based in the small Alaskan town amid privacy concerns. The elves from Santa's Mailbag vowed to fight the decision, while North Pole residents voiced outrage. A reversal of the Postal Service move was announced Friday. "We never wanted to spoil people's Christmas," said agency spokesman Ernie...

The Postal Service reported a net loss of $3.8 billion for the 2009 fiscal year, about $1 billion more than the previous year. The loss comes despite a reduction of 40,000 in career employees and billions in cost-cutting measures.

The U.S. Postal Service is projected to lose $7 billion in 2009 and the same amount in 2010 – this after a succession of postal rate increases since 2006 (first class postage rose 2¢ to $0.39 for the first ounce and is now $0.44) – and thousands of branches coast-to-coast are curtailing services and may be shuttered. Is government-run mail delivery really the best analogy Obama could have come up with to assuage people’s fears about government-run healthcare? Maybe he’s been hanging around Joe Biden too long. Oh, and, contrary to Obama’s assertions, FedEx and UPS are not “doing just...

The U.S. Postal Service has cut its staff by 25,000 this year as it struggles to reduce massive deficits, Postmaster General John Potter said Monday. Postal employment is now below 635,000, Potter said, down from about 800,000 in 1999. Thousands of carrier routes have also been eliminated as mail volume declines, he said. "We have an infrastructure that, quite frankly, we cannot afford based on the income we're receiving," Potter said. The agency still faces a potential $6.5 billion loss this year, Potter said, and even with increased borrowing and other changes it could finish the year with a $1.5...

(CNN) -- Sending a letter will soon be a little more expensive, the U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday. The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday a 2-cent increase on first-class stamps, effective May 11. The Postal Service said the price increase was necessary because of rising production costs. Under law, the price of stamps is not allowed to rise faster than the U.S. consumer price index, which measures inflation.

IDENTITY theft has caused $56 billion in losses in 2005, according to a California research firm that studies the problem. Governmental agencies suggest that 10 million Americans are victims of identity theft each year. But most of that illegal activity comes from online thieves hacking into computers, stealing credit card numbers, bank card account numbers or Social Security Card numbers and using that stolen "identity" to buy merchandise or liquefy bank accounts. A more elaborate scheme discovered earlier this week had eastern European and Asian hackers busting into customer accounts of TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. and E-Trade Financial Corp. in...

Okay enquiring minds want to know : Which would you prefer a private company delivering your mail or the U.S.P.S.?