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.”

With Hajjar’s confirmation, all nine presidentially appointed seats on the board are filled for the first time since Dec. 8, 2010.

The new machines are capable of scanning addresses and barcodes on parcels and routing them.

Invoking its new authority to seek higher stamp prices, the United States Postal Service proposed Friday, May 28, to boost the price of a first-class stamp by 3¢ to 58¢. The current rate is 55¢.

The United States Postal Inspection Service, the investigative branch of the USPS, acknowledged its participation in the clandestine program in late April.

The board of governors has not had all nine presidentially appointed seats filled since Dec. 8, 2010.

Postal officials have wanted new trucks for years, but financing such a massive investment has been a major obstacle.

For the first half of the 2021 fiscal year, net losses hit $1.7 billion, compared to $1.9 billion in the first half of the previous year.

Tulino started his Postal Service career as a management associate in 1980 in Chicago.

The Syttende Mai festival in Stoughton, Wis., includes parades, food and drink, arts and music, athletic competitions and kids’ activities — all infused with Norwegian culture.

The GAO findings are not likely to be pleasing to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Republicans in Congress.

The decision to resume plant consolidations, which the agency halted in 2015 under fire from Congress, was blamed on the continuing decline in letter mail volume.

The United States Postal Inspection Service has acknowledged it participates in an internet covert operations program.

Postmaster General DeJoy blamed mailers for tolerating the Postal Service’s flawed service “for well over a decade.”