Both Missouri county bicentennial postmarks feature courthouses.

The current pandemic has spurred a drop in first-class mail that United States Postal Service officials fear could become permanent.

Ronald Stroman’s appointment was announced Nov. 10 by President-elect Biden’s transition office.

According to the inspector general’s report, there were 57 initiatives implemented as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy took office.

DeJoy also took heat from a U.S. government ethics and accountability watchdog group for his planned $33 million stock divestiture.

Postal Service spokesman David Partenheimer said that the agency was complying with the judge’s order.

In enacting the ban, the U.S. Postal Service cited provisions of the Hatch Act.

The design includes the moon and the spacecraft’s loop around it as the vessel headed back to Earth.

The report, issued Oct. 20, sharply criticized postal management for its handling of a series of operational changes the agency implemented as DeJoy took office in June.

The Stop Act won high praise from President Trump as a way to stop China from using the USPS to flood the United States with illicit opioids.

The postmark mentions the ship’s noteworthy 11th and 12th patrols.

The U.S. Postal Service will keep the price of a domestic first-class letter at 55¢ in 2021. But to do that, it will boost the price for each additional ounce on heavier letters to 20¢, a 5¢ increase from the current 15¢ rate.

The former vice president also declared he wants to slow the speed of postal rate increases and protect six-days-a-week mail deliveries.

As Lewistown, Pa., celebrates Goose Day each year, local restaurants add goose dinners to their menus and a plethora of events are held.

In one of his first interviews, DeJoy said he is “very proud” to head the United States Postal Service.

United States Postal Service spokesman David Partenheimer said the agency was considering whether to appeal the rulings.

Citing newly available documents released by the watchdog group American Oversight, the Washington Post said the plan had gone as far as the USPS drafting a press release in April.

Congressional appropriations for the U.S. Postal Service were phased out by the 1980s.

The hearing by the Subcommittee on Government Operations was the latest effort by House Democrats to paint DeJoy as a crony of the president whose selection avoided the normal vetting and background checks.

The new moniker salutes the six Lake Havasu City men who lost their lives defending the United States.