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...The US Postal Service said it expected to handle between 850m and 950m packages this holiday season....
...The USPS did not have an immediate response to the decision, though Mr DeJoy said earlier on Thursday: “The postal service’s continued co-ordination with state and local election officials helps ensure every...
...“The postal service has been trying to cut every cost it can without making lay-offs....
...The USPS general counsel sent letters to 46 states and Washington DC at the end of July warning of potential widespread delays in processing mail-in ballots during November’s election....
...This meant Chinese companies could ship millions of low-price items — from fake eyelashes to phone chargers — thousands of miles using state-run postal services, often for less than it would cost to ship...
...In a joint statement on Sunday, they said a warning by the United States Postal Service that mail-in ballots may not arrive in time to be counted on November 3 was a threat to the integrity of the elections...
...ordinary Americans talking about the value of the US postal service in their lives....
...The president made his remarks the day after the US Postal Service warned nearly every state in the country it might not be able to process postal votes in time for November 3 presidential polls....
...The US Postal Service has warned nearly every state in the US that it might not be able to process postal votes in time for the presidential election, in the latest sign that its financial struggles could...
...A coalition of states are also threatening to take the Trump administration to court over the postal service cuts and threats to mail-in voting....
...The US Postal Service needs the funding to tackle the big increase in mail-in ballots expected because of the pandemic....
...The Postal Service and drop boxes As Americans vote by mail in huge numbers, it has fallen to the US Postal Service to deliver and return ballot applications and the ballots themselves — all within a relatively...
...service....
...It would only raise rates slightly and slowly while keeping in place the strict caps on what the USPS and other postal systems can charge overseas shippers for domestic delivery....
...Donald Trump’s administration has criticised the US Postal Service for not charging companies such as Amazon as much as it could to deliver their packages — but has stopped short of forcing the service to...
...As a result, mail services for small packages shipped from China to the US cost significantly less than what USPS charges American mailers for a comparable service....
...The USPS said: “We welcome the president’s efforts to ensure that the compensation paid to the Postal Service for the delivery of international letter post mail is fair....
...Amazon and the postal service do not disclose the terms of their contract, but analysts believe it is profitable for USPS....
...In March, Mr Trump tweeted that Amazon pays “little or not taxes” to state and local governments, and that the US Postal Service “will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon....
...In one tweet this month, Mr Trump said: “I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy.”...
Online retailer's share price sinks after US president’s broadside
...Commenters also highlighted the potential impact on the postal service and the paper industry....
...The two had even been invited to meet the United States Postal Service postmaster general and enjoyed visions of a nationwide rollout. “We thought we were inking a bigger deal,” says Mr Baehr....
...It was produced in Georgetown, now Guyana, after a shipment of stamps was delayed from London, threatening to disrupt the postal service....
...Amazon and the USPS declined to comment on what fees the online retailer was paying for the service, but it will provide a much-needed new stream of revenue to the postal service, which has lost roughly...
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