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  1. covid
    USPS to Deliver Free COVID Tests … Sometime Soon?The Biden administration is “finalizing” plans to send an unknown number of COVID tests to Americans who want them at some point in the coming weeks.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  2. usps
    Using the U.S. Postal Service Is About to Get More ExpensiveThe price of various mail services will increase this summer as part of Louis DeJoy’s cost-cutting plan. Adjust your stamp-hoarding plans accordingly.
    By Nia Prater
  3. usps
    Louis DeJoy Plans Extensive Postal Service Cutbacks: ReportThe proposal reportedly includes longer first-class delivery windows, higher postage prices, and reduced post office hours.
    By Matt Stieb
  4. special delivery
    Sure, Laugh Away. But Every Big Vehicle Should Look Like the New USPS TruckWe admit it’s goofy-looking, but it’s a much safer design for crowded cities.
    By Alissa Walker
  5. united states postal service
    The USPS Is Struggling With COVID and Christmas SurgesIncreased demand, workers out sick, and confusion over cutbacks are causing delays at the Postal Service during the most chaotic time of the year.
    By Matt Stieb
  6. scandals
    What We Know About Louis DeJoy’s Campaign Finance ScandalThe postmaster general allegedly operated an illegal “straw-donor” scheme at his former company.
    By Chas Danner
  7. usps
    The House Post Office Hearing Was a Clown ShowThere were some bright spots during Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s testimony, but little of value was accomplished.
    By Sarah Jones
  8. buyer’s market
    The Post Office Has a Financial Problem, Not a CrisisThere are business questions underlying many of the political questions that surround the USPS.
    By Josh Barro
  9. united states postal service
    Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to Testify on Alarming Changes at USPSThe House Oversight Committee will host DeJoy on Aug. 24 to discuss the apparent plan to slow the mail before an election dependent on mail-in voting.
    By Matt Stieb
  10. usps
    Trump Requests Mail-in Ballot As He Condemns Voting by MailThe president has never been one to hold himself to the standards he applies to others.
    By Matt Stieb
  11. united states postal service
    Could USPS Leadership Overhaul Be Part of Trump’s Push to Impair Mail-in Voting?Changes at the top of the Postal Service appear to be part of Trump’s effort to undermine the agency ahead of an election reliant on mail-in voting.
    By Matt Stieb
  12. politics
    How Changes to the USPS Might Affect Voting by MailThe Trump administration’s changes to the Postal Service are creating delivery delays, and they could make mail-in voting less efficient and fair.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  13. crimes and misdemeanors
    Rogue Postal Worker Caught Trashing MailVery illegal.
    By Katie Van Syckle
  14. mail order
    Amazon Talked the USPS Into Delivering on SundaysThey’re not saying how much it cost.
    By Adam Martin
  15. U.S. Postal Service May End Next-Day DeliveryAs part of $3bn cost-cutting.
    By Andre Tartar
  16. The Post Office Goes NegativeE-mail is their target.
    By Noreen Malone
  17. headaches
    USPS May Close 34 New York Post OfficesAs usual, the Bronx gets the worst of it.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  18. stupid crime of the day
    Deliveryman Arrested for Hoarding MailCue ‘Seinfeld’ jokes.
    By Chris Rovzar
  19. the morning line
    Testing, Testing • Eliot Spitzer doesn’t just want DNA samples from all convicts and parolees. He also wants automatic HIV tests for all rape suspects, in a bill that’s dividing Albany, where some Democrats see testing “by virtue of indictment” as a slippery slope. [NYT] • Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is quickly turning into a tiny local version of Tom DeLay: First came the strategic purge of a community board, now he’s in hot water for accepting a free cruise on Queen Mary 2 after lobbying Cunard to dock the ship in Red Hook. [NYP] • Accounting assistant could be a pretty lucrative job, provided you’re ready to (a) steal and (b) go to jail. Eileen Koranteng, for instance, parlayed said gig at Riverdale Country School into both a $500,000 windfall and fifteen years behind bars if convicted. • Chuck Schumer has Lyme disease! The senator is receiving treatments after he was bitten by a deer tick in the Hudson Valley. In an odd coincidence — this is not a joke — he’s proposed a $100 million research grant to study the disease. [WNBC] • And in a first that doesn’t bode well for the future of the Postal Service, Saks Fifth Avenue’s shoe department got its own Zip Code: 10222-SHOE. Nice PR move, but we’re not sure Saks is ready to embrace the yo-mama-so-fat- she-has-her-own-Zip-Code jokes. [amNY]