FedEx had been the principal air carrier for domestic first-class and parcel mail for more than 20 years.

The additional-ounce rate for first-class letters will jump 4¢, from 24¢ to 28¢.

Almost seven years have elapsed since the last cross-country solar eclipse in the United States. This year’s spectacle was expected to surpass its predecessor in both scale and duration.

Members of both parties in the House of Representatives have come together to pledge their support for a proposed piece of legislation dubbed the Protect Our Letter Carriers Act.

The Atlanta metropolitan area replaced beleaguered Houston as an epicenter of infuriating and unexplained mail disruptions in mid-March.

Many of the messages were appreciative, some were censorious, and some still bubble with the feminist awakening of the times.

A Norwalk, Conn., postmark displays Carpenters’ Hall, the historic building where the First Continental Congress took place 250 years ago in Philadelphia.

A collector since childhood, teacher Kathleen Anne Beres once shared a dream of liftoff with millions of other members of her space-mad generation.

Information about philatelic postmarks is available in the Postal Operations Manual.

Formally organized in the fall of 1956, the George Washington Masonic Stamp Club has a rich history.

The lively and colorful gathering is known officially as the Conservative Political Action Conference.

On March 9, William Still was one of 10 19th-century Americans to be honored on a set of United States forever commemorative stamps honoring operatives on the Underground Railroad.

The proposed emissions reductions are part of the Postal Service’s efforts to apply a bright green tint to its plans to pay fewer employees to work out of fewer buildings and to charter fewer fast but high-polluting aircraft to carry the mail.

The Capitol of Puerto Rico is also known as El Capitolio and the House or Palace of Laws.

According to local news reports, thousands of Texans have been affected since December 2023 by cascading equipment failures and staffing shortfalls at USPS processing plants in North Houston and Missouri City.

The Hashknife, originally a tool for cutting meat, became a brand in Texas and was later adopted by the Aztec Land and Cattle Co. in Holbrook in 1866.

Linn's Washington correspondent Allen Abel fondly recalls working at the FDR Station post office in New York City more than 50 years ago.

The unveiling did not feature any of the specially designed vehicles that the USPS has commissioned to form the majority of its future delivery fleet.

Only 85.4 percent of first-class mail had been delivered on time during the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, as measured against the USPS service standard, the USPS said.

The Armstrong post office endures, even though it was officially shuttered by the USPS on Nov. 4, 2011.