Luper became the advisor for the Oklahoma City National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council in 1957.

DeJoy, his spokesmen have consistently said, believes all his actions have been proper under the Postal Service’s ethics rules.

The postmark for Centennial+1 was drawn by local artist Sue Allen and features a depiction of a Steiner cabin and the town’s namesake plant.

This is the second year that the USPS has proposed a holiday surcharge similar to ones imposed by other carriers.

Apollo 15 headed back to Earth on Aug. 2, 1971. Also on that date, the Postal Service issued a pair of 8¢ Space Achievement Decade stamps featuring a lunar rover.

The new standards will allow up to five days for delivery of first-class domestic letters instead of three days.

The Postal Regulatory Commission urged caution on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s plan to lengthen the time for delivery of first-class mail from three days to five days.

The USPS says that package deliveries typically take two to nine days in the contiguous 48 states.

In a decision issued July 19, the commission endorsed the United States Postal Service’s higher prices on letters, advertising mail and publications.

This year’s pictorial postmark for Danish Viking Days, a celebration of the Danish roots of Viborg, S.D., is a shout-out to local businesses.

The U.S. Postal Service is discontinuing production of its flat-rate prepaid Priority Mail envelope franked with an imprinted postage stamp.

A San Juan, Puerto Rico, postmark commemorates 85 years since the birth of sculptor and printmaker Rafael Lopez del Campo.

DeJoy, who headed New Breed Logistics from 2003 to 2014, was well known in North Carolina as a major Republican Party financier before he became postmaster general.

The Postal Service’s historian issued a couple of papers marking the event, and the American Postal Workers Union held a webinar.

Postal officials did not comment on the lawsuit but have said the agency expects the new trucks will be deployed in 2023.

Presidential appointees to boards and commissions rarely get White House attention after their confirmations.

The festival, which took place June 11-13, offered attendees a one-of-a-kind experience of what life looked like at the time of the 1803-06 Lewis and Clark expedition.

The U.S. Postal Service is planning future news releases to mark the agency’s continuing efforts to improve service.

Under current standards, the USPS relies too heavily on air transportation, the Postal Service said.

The Washington Post, in a June 3 story, said FBI agents recently interviewed current and former employees of DeJoy, questioning “political contributions and company activities.”