Changes To Mail Delivery Start This Week: Here’s What To Know
Changes to how the United States Postal Service delivers mail are set to begin this week — and depending on where you're sending from and what you're mailing, you may notice a difference.
Starting Tuesday, April 1, the USPS will begin phasing in updates to its service standards as part of its ongoing Delivering for America 10-year modernization plan.
The refinements will affect First-Class Mail, Periodicals, Marketing Mail, Package Services (including Bound Printed Matter, Media Mail, and Library Mail), USPS Ground Advantage, Priority Mail, and Priority Mail Express.
A second round o…
Clear Sidewalks, Mailboxes For Hudson Valley Letter Carriers, USPS Says
As the Hudson Valley continues to thaw out from Thursday’s winter weather, postal officials are encouraging homeowners to keep walkways, sidewalks and the approaches to mailboxes clear from snow and ice.
On the heels of the “bomb cyclone,” which dropped as many as nine inches of snow in the area, and left the region coated in ice on Friday morning, Grayson, Westchester District postal officials are seeking the public’s assistance so letter carriers can provide safe, timely mail delivery.
According to officials, mounds of snow and patches of ice in front of mailboxes create havoc for carrier…
