USPS

A Philadelphia man has been charged with robbery and kidnapping after police say he forced a postal worker into a mail truck and made her drive him around at gunpoint before he fled with several packages.

A Fairfax County woman is asking for help to find an urn that contains her father’s ashes after the package that contained them was taken from a porch in an apartment complex.

The U.S. Postal Service says it has chosen Oshkosh Defense to build its next-generation mail-delivery vehicle.

News4’s Jackie Bensen reports on a Fairfax County woman who is searching for her father’s ashes.

A United States Postal Service mail carrier is being praised for her actions after her observant eye and quick thinking very well may have saved the life of an elderly woman on her mail route. Shonda Lemon, an eight-year veteran of the USPS, says she’s been delivering mail in Chicago’s Dunning neighborhood for four years. She’s developed close bonds...

One month after the holidays, people are just now receiving Christmas cards postmarked early to mid-December. And complaints have been pouring into NBC4 Responds from people who are waiting for their bills, medications and even stimulus payments.  Annandale, Virginia resident Jessica To-Alemanji is waiting for her second economic impact payment from the IRS. The IRS’s “Get My Payment” tool...

Mail delays continue to plague the U.S. Postal Service. Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan has some tips to make sure you don’t have any missed or late bill payments.

Atlanta-area mail delays, which Postmaster Louis DeJoy promised would improve following a national slowdown last summer, remain far below US Postal Service standards, threatening to disenfranchise thousands of legal voters who mailed in ballots in a pair of pivotal U.S. Senate runoffs this week.

Santa Claus is totally amazing, delivering millions of presents to children all over the world each year. But even Santa can use some extra elf help during the holiday season. And in the new documentary “Dear Santa,” directed by Dana Nachman, audiences get to meet elves from around the U.S., plus the children who’ve asked for special presents for Christmas and...

If you mailed-out holiday gifts weeks ago thinking the packages would arrive in plenty of time for Christmas Day, you may want to check the status of the delivery.

It’s the busiest week for holiday shipping through the U.S. Postal Service. Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan has the details on the deadlines you don’t want to miss.

The United States Postal Service has launched its 108th annual USPS Operation Santa, which allows the public to grant wishes of children and families in need of holiday gifts.

For more than 100 years, thousands of children in need have been helped through USPS’ Operation Santa. The documentary “Dear Santa” takes an inside look at what kids from all over the country ask St. Nick and how anyone can help make their dreams come true. The director, Dana Nachman, joined LX News to talk about which wishes touched her...

Because more than half the states – including most of the key battlegrounds – don’t provide a grace period for ballots that arrive after Election Day, it is likely 25,000-50,000 ballots nationwide were ultimately rejected because of USPS problems.

While U.S. Postal Service workers likely delivered more than 99.9% of the country’s mail ballots in time to be counted this year, it also appears that tens of thousands were disenfranchised by postal delays.

News4’s Justin Finch has the shipping deadlines you need to know if you are sending gifts to your loved ones this holiday season.

Part of the election battle playing out in Pennsylvania is happening in a D.C. courtroom. Voting rights groups sued the U.S. Postal Service over concerns about mail-in ballots that might not be accounted for. The News4 T-Team’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

United States Postal Service officials are looking into a video shared by the Florida House Democratic Leader showing what he says are piles of unsorted mail sitting in a Miami-Dade post office, sparking concerns that valid ballots won’t be counted.

The mail is slowing down as the November election approaches, according to an unscientific survey by the NBC Owned Television Stations, Telemundo and NBCLX. While letters mailed across town arrived on time, mail sent longer distances arrived days later than expected in the group’s third monthly test of the U.S. Postal Service. Nearly a third of the 809 letters...

The U.S. Postal Service isn’t delivering mail as quickly as it should, but the delays don’t appear significant enough – at this time – to disrupt an election, according to a September test by NBCLX and NBC Owned Television Stations.