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.

The death of the so-called “postage reselling” program was disclosed July 5 by Capitol Forum, a Washington, D.C., news organization.

With package mail becoming more important, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy wants a new footprint for postal operations that will be parcel friendly.

The town was named after the nearby Bridal Veil Falls, a beautiful waterfall that is part of the Oregon State Park system.

The Justice Department said the settlement brings the total to more than $80 million that the Postal Service has received from air carriers for submitting false delivery mail scans to the USPS.

The inaugural festival was held in 1972 at legendary bluesman Jimmy “Duck” Holmes’ family farm about a mile north of Bentonia.

This week’s featured postmark hails from DuBois, Pa., a city 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The commission’s caution came in response to a proposed change in delivery standards for retail ground and parcel select ground shipments.

The U.S. Postal Service announced June 1 that it will add a supplemental environmental impact statement to its plan for a new generation of mail delivery trucks.

The Rocky Mountain Stamp Show took place May 27-29.

As DeJoy made clear in his keynote address at the National Postal Forum on May 16, his plan calls for much more with regard to the nation’s mail service.

The bill is called the Ensuring Oversight Access at the Postal Service Act.

President Joe Biden, House Democrats and environmental organizations are pressing for more electric postal trucks.

The Walt Disney Hometown Museum in Marceline, Mo., has sponsored a postmark featuring an image of Walt’s barn.