As a new postmaster general with ties to FedEx assumes control of the agency, postal workers and their customers are bracing ...

Established in 1775, when the Second Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin as postmaster general, the postal service predates the United States itself.

Privatizing USPS would result in higher prices for mail services, shuttered locations, and devastating impacts to small ...

The agency's semiquincentennial will be marked by an event at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, two and a half centuries since its founding. Two newly ...

The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily -- undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of ...