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How a Postage Stamp Saved My Life

Aug 14, 2017
4 min

How a Postage Stamp Saved My Life

I didn’t know it at the time, but 48 hours was all the time that I had left with the most extraordinary woman I had ever known. That woman was my mom. As I reflect back, the night before she died was no different than any other. But the next day and every day since, has never been the same. Mom had now been diagnosed with cancer for the second time in her life. The first time she would beat it, the second time, she wouldn’t. This time mom was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon canc

Postal Service Shows Its Commitment to Energy Conservation

Oct 28, 2016
2 min

Postal Service Shows Its Commitment to Energy Conservation

Postal Service™ Celebrates Energy Conservation During Energy Action Month 2016 October is Energy Action Month. This month long celebration is declared by Presidential Proclamation each October. It is a time to celebrate energy saving successes and renew our commitment to energy conservation. The Postal Service set a goal in 2003 to reduce energy usage in our more than 30,000 facilities by 30% by the year 2015. We surpassed that goal by reducing our facility energy usage by 32

Mail Delivery Rises Above Kokomo Tornado Devastation

Oct 14, 2016
2 min

Mail Delivery Rises Above Kokomo Tornado Devastation

Neither snow nor tornado…nothing keeps the Kokomo, Indiana postal employees from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Not even 165-mph winds from an EF3 tornado in August 2016 could deter these postal employees from ensuring every piece of U.S. Mail was dispatched for delivery. The tornado struck while Kokomo Postmaster Dennis Sweeney and many of his employees were at work. When he learned his own neighborhood had been struck by the storm, the postmaster rushed hom

Inspirational Couple Sets a Running Record

Oct 7, 2016
2 min

Inspirational Couple Sets a Running Record

Marathon Love Couple Hits 25K Mile Mark Crossing the finish line took only seconds. Reaching this point took 25 years. After competing in more than 270 races, Lansing, IL, Letter Carrier Jamie Parks and his wife Lynn have crossed the finish line into the record books. On July 11, they celebrated 25 years of running together. The couple, who run up to 40 miles per week, also logged their 25,000th-mile — the equivalent of circling the Earth and possibly setting a Guinness world

Inverted Jenny

Jun 24, 2016
2 min

Inverted Jenny

Stolen Inverted Jenny returned at the NY World Stamp Expo. Keelin O’Neill of Ireland, who inherited the stamp from his grandfather; Keelin O’Neill of Ireland, who inherited the coveted stamp from his grandfather, addresses the crowd at a press conference with law enforcement and stamp officials at the Javits Center in New York City. For someone like me who’s used postage stamps all my life, and been closely related to them during my 27-year working life at the Postal Service,

Mule Mail

Apr 29, 2016
4 min

Mule Mail

Authored by: Junemarie Brandt, Research Analyst Postal History, 29 years in service In 2014, I visited the Supai, Arizona, Post Office™ facility—the last Post Office™ in the U.S. receiving mail by mule. To most Americans, communication in 2016 is fast, and convenient. Groceries, electronics and other consumer goods can be ordered online and quickly brought to your door. But in Arizona, there is still a remote village where no motorized vehicles travel the unpaved streets

Happy Earth Day from the USPS

Apr 22, 2016
2 min

Happy Earth Day from the USPS

What better time than today, Earth Day, to remind sustainability stakeholders worldwide that USPS has long adopted goals to reduce energy, water consumption, and greenhouse-gas emissions. Throughout the Postal Service, these are goals we are proud of and fully embrace. These reductions not only are right for the environment, they make good business sense. For USPS, Earth Day also marks the day we release our Annual Sustainability Report (ASR). The ASR reports our progress in

Tune into Success: New USPS Technology Showcased at NPF

Apr 1, 2016
2 min

Tune into Success: New USPS Technology Showcased at NPF

The Postal Service was at the National Postal Forum (NPF) this week—the annual mailing industry tradeshow—partaking in inspired addresses, instructional workshops, and networking events designed to enable greater success for businesses and customers. While there, USPS presented its strategic initiatives to lead a technology-driven reinvention of the mail to better serve customers and take new approaches to delivery. “The Postal Service is investing in our digital strategy bec

Employees rise to the challenge of record flooding

Jan 29, 2016
2 min

Employees rise to the challenge of record flooding

Because of winter flooding, the Eureka, MO Post Office became an island, forcing a closure for three days. Rare winter flooding socked the St. Louis area closing Post Offices in Missouri and Illinois. The flooding was the result of heavy rainfall in November and December that climaxed with more than 10 inches of rain over a three-day period that began on Christmas day. The Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau, MO set an all-time flood record of 48.86 feet, breaking a record se

“Anyone would have done the same” says hero mail carrier

Jan 22, 2016
2 min

“Anyone would have done the same” says hero mail carrier

From left, Rural Carrier Michael Short, Brian and Kesha Booth It was an everyday action that could have ended in tragedy if it wasn’t for the intervention of Fairland, IN Rural Carrier Michael Short. Brian Booth heard a noise coming from the exhaust of his Dodge Caravan, so he got his car jack and slid under the vehicle. Suddenly, the jack fell on its side, rocked and caught him pinning him under the van. “It was hard to even breathe,” he said. “With the pain, the more I move

Aug 27, 2015
2 min

Response to OIG Blog Article from UPS on Mailbox Access

In his recent Office of Inspector General blog article, “Rethinking Mailbox Access,” UPS executive Keith Kellison proposes giving other delivery companies access to your mailbox. If delivery companies want to discuss stuffing your mailbox with their packages, then that discussion needs to start with why mailboxes are reserved for the Postal Service in the first place. The fact is that exclusive mailbox access isn’t some kind of gratuitous privilege. Rather, it reflects common

Mail Delivery Service Across America

Aug 26, 2015
2 min

Mail Delivery Service Across America

You’ve heard it before, the Postal Service’s unofficial mail delivery motto — Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds —but what exactly does it mean? It means doing what it takes to get the mail delivered in the US … and some places are harder to deliver to than others. No matter what type of mail and shipping service you choose, the Postal Service moves mail using planes, trains, trucks, cars,

Jan 30, 2015
2 min

Winter Tips to Help Carriers Deliver Safely

By: Paul Smith It’s the time of the year when most Americans start paying a bit more attention to the weather to hear if Mother Nature is about to wreak havoc. Whether there is a minor dusting or significant accumulations, people flock to retailers to purchase water, milk, scrapers, shovels and snow blowers before they are sold out. One constant you can rely on nearly every day is getting your mail. As a former letter carrier, I know there’s nothing worse than not being able

New USPS.com Redesign

Dec 16, 2014
2 min

New USPS.com Redesign

Did you know our website USPS.com has had over 6 million visits in one day? And now, with its recent simplified redesign, visitors to usps.com will experience an improved look and feel, plus a streamlined design and structure. Best of all, information and applications can be found with fewer clicks on both desktops and tablets. Highlights of the USPS.com redesign include: • Streamlined design: in order to minimize clicks and focus on making transactions easier, we have reduce

Seal of Delivery

Aug 5, 2014
2 min

Seal of Delivery

Several Logos, Mottos have Represented USPS Through the Years The Postal Service’s iconic blue and white eagle isn’t the only insignia that has represented the organization throughout its history. In 1782, Postmaster General Ebenezer Hazard chose Mercury, the Greek messenger of the gods, to represent the organization. Hazard placed the divine deity on top of a globe, with his right hand raised, and gave wings to his feet, helmet and staff. He was encircled with the Latin insc

The U.S. Postal Service has Your Passport to Convenience

Jul 31, 2014
2 min

The U.S. Postal Service has Your Passport to Convenience

Obtain a Passport or Renew at Select Post Offices™ Nationwide To make it more convenient to apply for a passport, select Post Offices nationwide accept passport applications for processing. Some locations even allow you to have your passport photo taken on-site for an additional fee. At Post Offices offering passport services, customers will find retail staff members who are expertly trained in passport acceptance procedures and completely dedicated to making passport applica

Put your mail on hold — not your summer fun

Jul 3, 2014
1 min

Put your mail on hold — not your summer fun

The bags are packed and you’re ready to go. Timers for lights set? Check. Refrigerator cleaned out? Check. Wait, what about the mail? Rather than hope little Johnny next door is willing to retrieve your mail every day in exchange for a box of salt water taffy from the beach, why not use the convenience of the Postal Service’s Hold Mail service? This service can conveniently be scheduled online at https://holdmail.usps.com/holdmail/ by calling 1-800-ASK-USPS, or by submitting

Dear USPS

Jul 1, 2014
2 min

Dear USPS

Dear USPS: I am anybody in any town USA (actually I am Jesse King and I live in Nevada City, California). I have a story I want to share with you and everyone else: As I was picking my kids up at school the other day I passed again, as I have so many times before, the house of an elderly man. This time he was obviously waiting for something as he stood upon his driveway with his hands in his pockets. This time I was stuck in traffic longer than was usual and so as I waited I

The U.S. Postal Service Delivers Gift-Giving Solutions This Father’s Day

Jun 16, 2014
2 min

The U.S. Postal Service Delivers Gift-Giving Solutions This Father’s Day

Participating in the time honored tradition of sending a greeting card for Father’s Day let’s your dad know he is your top priority. Father’s Day 2014 is almost upon us once again, ushering in the time of year dads are to be celebrated! It’s a time when many of us have the privilege to thank our Dads for all they have done and many of us chose to thank dad with a greeting card. According to the Greeting Card Association 90 million Father’s Day cards are purchased during this

Nine things you should know about the Postal Service

May 12, 2014
2 min

Nine things you should know about the Postal Service

You probably know your mail carrier and the clerks at your neighborhood Post Office, but how well do you know the Postal Service itself? Here are nine facts that might surprise you. 9. The phrase by Herodotus etched atop the James A. Farley Building in Manhattan — “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” — isn’t the official Postal Service motto. We don’t have a motto. 8. The Postal Service is

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