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Postal workers who recall packages and letters piled up in distribution hubs a year ago are gearing up for another holiday crush

News4’s Paul Wagner reports on the Silver Spring man who was the victim of a check theft scheme.

Dave Wood’s bank returned the funds, but he will not be putting checks into the blue boxes anymore.

A U.S. mail truck was involved in a crash in Potomac, Maryland, on Monday night and flipped onto its side, fire officials say.  A photo from the Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service shows the small, white truck upended onto its right side — the side on which the postal worker sits.  The crash occurred before 8 p.m. Monday...

Louis DeJoy faced more than a dozen conflicts of interest when he began serving as Postmaster General because of his family’s investments in a number of companies closely tied to the U.S. Postal Service, according to new documents that show he was initially allowed to merely recuse himself from matters involving those companies rather than divesting from them.

Images show a vehicle leaving the scene where a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier was shot while delivering the mail in the North Michigan Park neighborhood on Oct. 7. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

The US postal service, FedEx and UPS have all released their deadlines for packages and holiday cards to arrive by December 25 and the theme is all the same: send them early.

The U.S. Postal Service will implement higher shipping prices ahead of the holiday season. Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan has more on the price increases and shipping deadlines.

Police are looking for a man on surveillance video who they say targeted at least one U.S. Postal Service collection box. News4’s Shomari Stone reports authorities are warning that thieves are swiping money from people’s mail.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Montgomery County police are investigating a series of mail thefts from several blue collection boxes. “It’s really disappointing, because I love the postal service,” mail theft victim Ashley Patterson said.  Last spring, she wrote a check for $300, put the envelope in a collection box on Fox Hall Road in Northwest D.C. Weeks...

The U.S. Postal Service is making several changes that’ll impact mail delivery time and the cost of shipping packages during the 2021 holiday season

The Postal Service’s aging fleet of trucks is soldiering on even as a contract for greener replacement vehicles is being challenged.

The U.S. Postal Service wants to raises rates on first-class stamps from 55 cents to 58 cents as part of a host of price hikes and service changes designed to reduce debt for the beleaguered agency.

All three of President Joe Biden’s nominees to the governing board of the U.S. Postal Service have been approved by the Senate.

A mail carrier in New Jersey admitted Thursday that he threw away mail, including 99 general election ballots sent to West Orange residents, according to federal prosecutors.

Some D.C. residents have been told that delays can be linked to understaffing and the pandemic. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

“Postal banking is an elegant solution that would provide the USPS upwards of $9 billion a year in revenue and would address the high cost of being poor in America,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy unveiled the largest rollback of consumer mail services in a generation as part of his 10-year plan for the U.S. Postal Service, including longer first-class delivery windows, reduced post office hours and higher postage prices. Tuesday’s announcement was part of DeJoy’s strategic vision for the agency.