The inspector general of the United States Postal Service has sharply criticized the agency’s creation of the 100 panes of upright Jenny Invert stamps that were supposed to be randomly distributed along with the 2.2 million normal $2 Jenny Invert panes in 2013.

Canada Post has proposed an increase in postage rates to take effect Jan. 11, 2016. The plan calls for the price of mailing a domestic letter to go up to 90¢, from the current rate of 85¢.

A new government report is likely to fuel concerns that mail deliveries are suffering because the United States Postal Service continues to struggle with what its regulator has termed “the new normal.”

The United States Postal Service is unable to document cost savings from its decision to print postage stamps on paper that cannot be soaked off envelopes. That’s the conclusion of the agency’s response to a Freedom of Information Act request Linn’s filed with the agency May 11 at the suggestion of a former senior postal official.

ESPN took notice of the U.S. Postal Service's campaign to promote sending letters to Special Olympics athletes.

An impassable bridge led to U.S. Postal Service mail carriers resorting to unconventional delivery methods, according to 9News.com.

Also this week, the APS 2019 summer show was discussed at a board meeting, but no decision was made on where the show would take place.

Royal Mail is installing plaques picturing British stamps on 50 public mailboxes across the United Kingdom.

He was taken into custody during a Dec. 29, 2014, break-in at Five Dock Post Office, the Morning Herald repots. The second man managed to evade police.

The clamor over a report suggesting that billions of dollars could be made by expanding banking services through the United States Postal Service has drawn a rare public condemnation from the Postal Service.

A May 21 report by the United States Postal Service Inspector General has reignited the question of whether the nation’s post offices should offer banking services.

A federal appeals court has told the United States Postal Service the 49¢ first-class stamp may have to go.

The 30 percent stake in Royal Mail that the UK government is planning to sell off will not be made available to private investors.

The United States Postal Service is reviewing all of its minimum order requirements imposed by its Stamp Fulfillment Services mail-order center, a spokesman for the agency told Linn’s June 4.

UK Chancellor George Osborne announced Thursday that the government will be selling off its 30 percent stake in Royal Mail.

A new Fanciful Flowers forever postal card will be issued July 31.

U.S. Postal Service is encouraging people to send letters to Special Olympics athletes.

Negotiations on a new labor contract between the United States Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union came to an impasse last week.

In what one commentator has called "an early sign of enlightened leadership" by new Postmaster General Megan Brennan, the United States Postal Service has halted plans to close upwards of 82 mail processing plants this year.

When first-day cover collector Rollin Berger saw the announcement of a new United States forever stamp on what seemed like the website of a congressional committee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service, he was immediately skeptical.