Postal clerks had sent the returns from the mailing to a dead letter facility in Atlanta, where the donations were either destroyed or returned to the senders.

The Postal Inspection Service issued a statement Sept. 8 rejecting the charges that it had limited the duties of the uniformed postal police force and reduced the size of the force.

Letters to Santa must be postmarked by Dec. 12. Dec. 21 is the last day to adopt letters.

The town was officially named “Wilmington” by the state legislature on March 22, 1822.

Bell became a carrier in 1956, and he has spent his entire postal career in Oklahoma City.

Postmaster General Louis Dejoy’s delivering for America plan calls for the creation of sorting and delivery centers to speed up mail delivery.

The Palmer, Alaska, postmark is sponsored by the Anchorage Philatelic Society.

The Inflation Reduction Act authorizes a $3 billion federal payment to the USPS for the purchase of zero-emission delivery vehicles and charging infrastructure.

The furor is all about the Montpelier Station, a train depot that sits next to the Montpelier estate of James Madison, the nation’s fourth president.

A better workplace is a key element in DeJoy’s 10-year Delivering for America plan.

The postmark image came from the local T-shirt design contest.

The measure now goes to the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.

In resolving the lawsuit, the Postal Service denied it had engaged in any “unlawful conduct or wrongdoing.”

The increases would affect Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, First-Class Package, Parcel Select and Retail Ground services.

It was the first time in years that the Postal Service has been able to show a profit.

The pictorial postmark displays the ship’s coat of arms, which contains a shield, swords, an alligator and the “Together We Fight” motto.

DeJoy said he was refocusing the Postal Service so it can survive.

Plans now call for 40 percent of the United States Postal Service’s first order of new delivery vehicles to be powered by electricity.

A Greater Reno Stamp and Cover Show pictorial postmark is dedicated to the new Northern Nevada African American Firefighter Museum.

The older machinery sometimes gets put back into service around the months of November and December when mail volumes increase.