All posts tagged "Us Postal Service"

The U.S. Postal Service has halted work on a computer system central to President Donald Trump's effort to limit mail-in voting.

Postmaster General David Steiner confirmed the stoppage Thursday in an interview with the Associated Press, just days after the Supreme Court rejected the president's executive order for this year's midterms.

"There's an injunction so we're not doing anything," Steiner told the AP....

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's mail-in ballot rule by turning the Justice Department's own courtroom promises against it.

The ruling is the latest twist in the months-long fight over the Trump administration's push to give the federal government a gatekeeping role in mail-in voting. The Supreme Court let the administration move forward on August 24, and the U.S. Postal Service finalized the mail-in ballot rule two days later, which sent states and voting-rights groups racing back to court to block it before mail ballots start going out in September.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Thursday granted a fourteen-day temporary restraining order freezing the mandatory core of the U.S. Postal Service's rule for any election on or before November 3, including envelope-design approvals, voter enrollment in a new federal portal and provisions letting USPS refuse to mail non-compliant ballots....

Lance Armstrong's legal team released studies on Friday conducted by the US Postal Service saying the US government sponsorship of his Tour de France team produced a triple return on investment.

WASHINGTON — The US Postal Service unveiled Thursday a drastic downsizing scheme for the embattled public company, including cutting 35,000 jobs, as it seeks to avoid collapse amid a "new reality" in the economy.

The US Postal Service warned on Friday that it could default on payments it owes the federal government, just days after the US government itself narrowly averted a default.

NEW YORK (AFP) – The US post office had egg on its face Friday after realizing that a stamp showing the Statue of Liberty in close up was not taken in New York's harbor, but Las Vegas.