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  • Thursday, 23 December, 2021
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    Christmas comes on time as US parcel deliveries beat Covid snarls

    Consumers and companies learn lessons from disappointments of past festive season

    A UPS hub in Kentucky
  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
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    Voter suppression: US election generates avalanche of litigation

    Democrats push back against Republican attempts to impose restrictions on mail-in ballots

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    US presidential election 2020
    US judge blocks postal service changes that could delay mail

    States had said measures threatened to hinder mail-in ballots for November election

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    US politics & policy
    US postal service crisis has been years in the making

    Election worries have put a new focus on the agency’s longstanding financial woes

  • Monday, 24 August, 2020
    House Democrats blame US postal chief for mail delays

    Louis DeJoy accused of running service ‘into the ground’ in the run-up to presidential election

    US postmaster-general Louis DeJoy testifies before the House oversight committee hearing on Monday
  • Saturday, 22 August, 2020
    House passes $25bn bailout for US postal service

    Democrats accuse Trump administration of trying to hobble mail-in voting for November presidential election

  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
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    The Republican donor is accused by Democrats of abetting the president’s war on voting by mail

  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
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    US postal chief says election mail is ‘number-one priority’

    Louis DeJoy goes on the defence in Senate hearing after warnings of delays sparked outrage

    Louis DeJoy, a major donor to Donald Trump and the Republican party, was appointed postmaster-general earlier this year
  • Tuesday, 18 August, 2020
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    US postal service delays cutbacks over election fears

    Postmaster-general is set to testify before Congress over concerns about delayed ballots

  • Monday, 17 August, 2020
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    US post office chief to testify as mail-in ballot outcry grows

    Trump donor Louis DeJoy called to House over warnings of election vote delays

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    Post office fears, Italy’s economy, chocolate slump

    Democrats call postal chief to testify in US mail-in voting row

  • Sunday, 16 August, 2020
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    Pelosi to recall House as Democrats summon postal chief to testify

    Louis DeJoy labelled ‘accomplice in president’s campaign to cheat in the election’

  • Sunday, 16 August, 2020
    Edward Luce
    Bidenomics and America’s new New Deal

    It is always better to have a plan than none, a lesson Republicans seem to have forgotten

  • Saturday, 15 August, 2020
    US politics & policy
    Trump says postal voting will leave election in limbo

    President steps up campaign against ‘catastrophic’ mail-in ballots after post office warns of delays

  • Friday, 14 August, 2020
    US presidential election 2020
    US Postal Service warns of mass delays for mail-in ballots

    Democrats have accused the Trump administration of leveraging post office woes to suppress voting

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    US presidential election 2020
    Trump vows to block funding for US postal voting

    President renews his attack on mail-in ballots with stimulus talks at a stalemate

  • Monday, 21 October, 2019
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    In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017, photo, a UPS driver takes his truck on a delivery route, in New York. UPS Inc. reports earnings Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
    Peter Navarro
    Change the unfair international postal rate system now

    Unless the rules stop favouring China, the US will quit the global union in October

    CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - AUGUST 15: Pedestrians walk past a mail box on August 15, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. In its recent quarterly statement the United States Postal Service reported a loss of nearly $2.3 billion and a 3.2 percent decline in package deliveries, the first decline in nearly a decade. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 5 December, 2018
    Amazon.com
    Amazon escapes Donald Trump’s call for higher post charges

    Report says postal service should charge more for all commercial deliveries, not just parcels

    FILE PHOTO: U.S. postal service trucks sit parked at the post office in Del Mar, California, U.S. November 13, 2013.   REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo/File Photo
  • Friday, 21 September, 2018
    US trade
    Trump threatens China over global postal rates

    President demands reform of system that he says works against US ecommerce

    epa06321743 Chinese workers sort packages on a conveyor belt at a sorting centre for JD.com on Singles Day, otherwise known as '11.11' Global Shopping Festival, in Beijing, China, 11 November 2017. Singles Day is the largest online shopping festival in the world and Chinese consumers are expected to spend billions on bargains during the one-day e-commerce shopping spree. EPA-EFE/HOW HWEE YOUNG
  • Sunday, 2 September, 2018
    Peter Navarro
    Global postal rates give Chinese companies an unfair advantage

    The US plans to use a meeting of the Universal Postal Union to renegotiate the rules

    OPA LOCKA, FL - DECEMBER 04: U.S. Postal service mail handlers Stephen Johnson and Melonyee Ross (R) sort packages at the U.S. Postal service's Royal Palm Processing and Distribution Center on December 4, 2017 in Opa Locka, Florida. The U.S. Postal Service is projecting more than 850 million packages will be sent during the busy holiday shopping and gift giving season. More than 6 million packages are expected to be delivered each of the five Sundays before Christmas in select major markets. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
  • Monday, 23 July, 2018
    US & Canadian companies
    Amazon shares slide after Trump takes aim again
  • Monday, 2 July, 2018
    US & Canadian companies
    Amazon delivery plan poses threat to US Postal Service growth

    Logistics spending spree aims to find other ways to get parcels quickly to customers

    FILE - In this Wednesday, June 27, 2018 file photo, Parisa Sadrzadeh, a senior manager of logistics for Amazon.com, demonstrates a package delivery for journalists at a media event in Seattle to announce a new program that lets entrepreneurs around the country launch businesses that deliver Amazon packages. Amazon says those businesses created under the program would operate 20 to 40 vans and employ between 40 and 100 people. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
  • Thursday, 28 June, 2018
    Technology sector
    Amazon encourages entrepreneurs to build logistics network

    Tech group will provide vans and other services in bid to control last-mile delivery

    FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2016 file photo, Amazon.com boxes are shown stacked near a Boeing 767 Amazon "Prime Air" cargo plane on display in a Boeing hangar in Seattle. Buffeted by threats from Amazon drones and Uber to delivery by golf cart, the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service is counting on a different strategy to stay ahead in the increasingly competitive package business: more freedom to raise your letter prices. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
  • Friday, 13 April, 2018
    News in-depthUS & Canadian companies
    Trump escalates Amazon clash with US postal price review

    President ramps up personal crusade against online retail group founder Jeff Bezos

    A USPS employee sorts Amazon parcels at a mail processing centre in Washington, DC
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