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USPS

A young woman sits at a desk scanning packages at a post office. | Rlat | Dreamstime.com

Fraud

Brickbat: Post Fraud

Charles Oliver | 9.4.2025 4:00 AM

A woman checks the mail from her mailbox in an apartment building. | Cupertino10 | Dreamstime.com

USPS

Brickbat: Checks in the Mail

Charles Oliver | 8.29.2025 4:00 AM

Illustration of a low-value Temu package on top of an ascending graph | llustration: Eddie Marshall | Cbechinie | Dreamstime.com

Tariffs

Trump Is Making Affordable Goods Expensive

Eliminating the tariff exemption on low-value Chinese imports is bad news.

Jack Nicastro | 4.4.2025 4:08 PM

A man opens a small white envelope. | Yuri Arcurs | Dreamstime.com

USPS

Brickbat: As Good as Cash

Charles Oliver | 2.20.2025 4:00 AM

A row of post office boxes, where one has been forced open. | Karin Hildebrand Lau | Dreamstime.com

USPS

Brickbat: Checks in the Mail

Charles Oliver | 2.17.2025 4:00 AM

A United States Postal Service (USPS) mail truck driving in snow. The image is slightly blurred, suggesting a higher rate of speed. | Lequint | Dreamstime.com

Drunk driving

Brickbat: Neither Rain, Snow, Heat, nor DUI

Charles Oliver | 12.12.2024 4:00 AM

A USPS postal carrier collects mail from a mailbox on the sidewalk. | Georgesheldon | Dreamstime.com

USPS

Brickbat: Sticky Fingers

Charles Oliver | 10.2.2024 4:00 AM

USPS next-generation delivery vehicle parked on a residential street. | USPS Digital Media

Government Waste

10 Years and $3 Billion for a New Mail Truck?

Oshkosh Defense’s USPS van is thousands of dollars more expensive than the industry standard.

Jack Nicastro | 9.13.2024 2:32 PM

Packet of mifepristone and misoprostol tablets | Comstock image: DPST/Newscom;  Pills: Soumyabrata Roy/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Abortion

The Stop Comstock Act Doesn't Go Far Enough

Upcoming legislation would repeal parts of the 1873 law that could be used to target abortion, but the Comstock Act's reach is much more broad than that.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.21.2024 2:05 PM

Close-up of a man's hands opening an envelope with a letter opener. | Christian Horz | Dreamstime.com

USPS

Brickbat: Missed Delivery

Charles Oliver | 5.20.2024 4:00 AM

A United States Postal Service (USPS) worker loads mail into a truck to be delivered. | Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA/Newscom

USPS

Watchdog Report: USPS Still Failing To Secure Facility That Was Robbed Twice in 2023

A new inspector general report indicates that officials knew that the industrial park had been targeted in the past.

Joe Lancaster | 1.4.2024 2:45 PM

Greeting card aisle at a supermarket. | David Tonelson | Dreamstime.com

Fraud

Brickbat: Letters from Home

Charles Oliver | 11.22.2023 4:00 AM

Survey responses ranging from Very Satisfied to Very Dissatisfied, with none of the boxes checked. | Rmarmion | Dreamstime.com

Big Government

Americans Don't Much Like Federal Agencies

Yet another year of low ratings for the apparatus of the D.C. leviathan.

J.D. Tuccille | 10.16.2023 7:00 AM

A USPS mail carrier loading packages into a mail truck. | Kilmermedia | Dreamstime.com

USPS

Brickbat: Bad Delivery

Charles Oliver | 10.11.2023 4:00 AM

U.S. Postal Service truck and worker | Paul Weaver/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Supreme Court

Supreme Court Clarifies 'Undue Hardship' Standard for Religious Accommodations in the Workplace

Plus: Perspectives on the affirmative action ruling, how U.S. policy is thwarting Cuban capitalists, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.30.2023 9:33 AM

US Postal Service US Supreme Court | Illustration: Lex Villena, Walter Cicchetti

Supreme Court

SCOTUS Will Decide Whether Federal Law Shields a Religious Postal Employee Who Refuses To Work on Sundays

The Supreme Court considers the scope of federally required religious accommodations at work.

Damon Root | 1.24.2023 1:27 PM

USPS New Vehicle Model | USPS

Environmental Protection Agency

Environmentalists Are Blocking the Post Office From Replacing Busted 30-Year-Old Mail Trucks

Congressional Democrats are insisting on expensive green tech, even though USPS is in desperate financial condition.

Alyssa Martinez | 3.23.2022 2:45 PM

reason-usps |  Georgesheldon/Dreamstime.com

Post Office

USPS Implements New Business Plan of Higher Prices and Worse Service

The postal service is trying to get its fiscal house in order. It's also alienating large shippers of first-class mail.

Christian Britschgi | 10.1.2021 3:50 PM

Liquor | Photo 81925762 / The © Laetu5 | Dreamstime.com

USPS

Let's Make it Easier for Distillers To Ship Alcohol Directly to Adult Consumers

Congress can start by letting the U.S. Postal Service deliver booze to adults.

Baylen Linnekin | 9.11.2021 8:30 AM

sipaphotoseleven058366 | Gado Images/Smith Collection/Gado/Sipa USA/Newscom

Reason Roundup

USPS Gets Hit With Lawsuit Over Social Media Snooping

Plus: Whistleblower on drone killings sentenced to federal prison, Biden carries on Trump's legacy on trade and immigration, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.29.2021 9:30 AM

4_timeline-bd-jw-kmw | Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty

USPS

Postal Censorship and Surveillance: A Timeline

The government's long and shameful history of intercepting people's letters

Jesse Walker | 7.15.2021 6:00 AM

sidebarsurveillance | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson, Source images: CSA-Archive; Ponomariova_Maria/iStock

USPS

The USPS' Semi-Secret Internet Surveillance Apparatus

The agency best known for delivering mail has a side hustle in online snooping.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.12.2021 6:00 AM

sidebarPonzi | Photo: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Getty

USPS

The Post Office Pension Ponzi Scheme

The USPS has overpromised and undersaved for its employees' retirements—all while losing nearly $9.2 billion last year.

Eric Boehm | 7.11.2021 6:00 AM

featurebritschgi | Photo: nebari/iStock

USPS

Post Apocalypse

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service. But a pandemic on top of a political fiasco? That's a first-class problem.

Christian Britschgi | 7.10.2021 6:00 AM

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