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February 16, 2026

u.s. postal service

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Steiner says USPS needs revenue growth, not just cuts

November 24, 2025 The Associated Press

The U.S. Postal Service can’t fix its finances through cuts alone, Postmaster General David Steiner said Friday. Steiner said the 250-year-old agency needs to expand its revenue base to restore prominence in the nation’s delivery […]

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NC Fast Facts: USPS reassures voters on mail ballots

November 2, 2024 The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. — The U.S. Postal Service has reopened all of its mail processing centers in areas of Florida and North Carolina hit by recent hurricanes, a top official said Wednesday in a briefing meant […]

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Postal Service ready for flood of mail-in ballots, DeJoy insists

September 21, 2024 The Associated Press

In a letter released Monday, U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy assured state election officials that he’d work with them to handle their warnings of problems with election mail delivery during the primary season. He also […]

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US Postal Service to boost purchases of electric vehicles

August 1, 2022 Associated Press 

The U.S. Postal Service said it will substantially increase the number of electric-powered vehicles it’s buying to replace its fleet of aging delivery trucks, after the Biden administration and environmental groups said the agency’s initial […]

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USPS doubles number of EV delivery trucks in initial order

April 1, 2022 David Sharp, Associated Press

One in five of the first batch of next-generation U.S. Postal Service delivery vehicles will be electric-powered, officials said Thursday. The Postal Service formally placed its initial $2.98 billion order for 50,000 vehicles with at […]

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USPS gets final signoff to order new delivery vehicles

March 7, 2022 David Sharp, Associated Press 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Postal Service said last week it cleared the final regulatory hurdle to placing orders for next-generation mail vehicles — and getting some of them on delivery routes next year — […]

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Postal hike doesn’t stop catalogers from stuffing mailboxes

January 7, 2022 David Sharp, Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine — A big postal rate increase over the summer didn’t stop catalog retailers from stuffing mailboxes during the holiday season. The U.S. Postal Service says more than 300 million catalogs flooded into people’s […]

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‘Get used to me’: Postmaster envisions generational change for U.S. mail service

June 14, 2021 Will Weissert, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Louis DeJoy is uninterested in the niceties of Washington. The wealthy longtime businessman with an outer borough New York accent prides himself as a problem solver ready to disrupt an unwieldy bureaucracy. […]

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