Executive order: 🤬

DHS will prepare list of citizens, by state, and USPS will block mail in ballots to anyone not on that list.

Source (the White House): https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/ensuring-citizenship-verification-and-integrity-in-federal-elections/

Someone needs to do something about Donald Trump -- Sooner would be better.

#Vote #Voting #MidTerms #Election #WhiteHouse #USPS #Justice #RuleOfLaw
Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Help America Vote Act of 2002

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Canada Post says it will move ahead with plan to end home delivery

Last year, the federal government said Canada Post would be allowed to end door-to-door mail delivery to individual addresses and close or convert some post offices.

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We’ve waited a looooong time for this: USPS Postcrossing stamps are coming! 🎉
They’re triangular, super colourful, and they launch May 26, 2026 at the Boston Stamp Show! Hurray!

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2026/03/31/a-new-postcrossing-stamp-from-the-usa

#Postcrossing #USPS #PostcrossingStamps #Stamps #Philately #Postcards #Boston2026

I ordered a gallon of liquid tree fertilizer from Idaho to NY, and it was shipped #usps Ground Select. But it was obviously flown, because there is no other way to get from Boise to the Hudson Valley in less than 24 hours. This is fast, but is it efficient?

The push to get us completely 'digitalized' approaches a crucial milestone. A new letter from Desert Sage on the impending demise of the letter delivery.

https://desertsagenm.substack.com/p/im-going-to-outlive-the-postal-service

#postalservice #USPS #letters #correspondence #tech #Technology

I'm going to outlive the postal service, aren't I?

The push to get us completely 'digitalized' approaches a crucial milestone

Desert Sage: Letters from New Mexico
Book Review: <i>Mailman</i>

Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: my wild ride delivering the mail in Appalachia and finally finding home . New York: Simon and Schuster, 202...

#Gas

Bought some gas for one of my cars for the 1st time in months.

$78.15 for 13.026 gals at $5.999/gal for Premium which this particular car requires.

The last time I bought any gas, I think it was around $4.859/gal.

That's a 23.5% increase 🤦🏻‍♂️

I'm glad that I don't drive any of my ICE vehicles much any more. 😉

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PS: I also own a #diesel #truck.

The price of diesel at the same station is now $7.299/gal up from around $5/gal the last time I looked.

That's a 46% increase in about the same time frame. 🤯

Just think what this increase is doing to the #trucking industry & what it will soon do to the cost of everything, because everything (at one stage or another) is delivered by truck.

The #USPS already announced that it is imposing an 8% fuel surcharge on pkg deliveries starting on 4/26.

This won't be the last that we see of such surcharges or other cost increases due to the higher fuel costs precipitated by #Drumpf's idiotic war in #Iran.🤦🏻‍♂️

The crisis at #USPS is being framed as collapse, but critics say policy choices helped create it, as #DonaldTrump allies float restructuring plans that could shift service toward profit driven models and away from universal delivery. #PostalService #economy

The U.S. Postal Service reported major financial losses in recent years, including billions in annual deficits, while warning about long term... https://instagr.am/p/DWd-DmoBi3M/

voteinorout on Instagram: "The crisis at #USPS is being framed as collapse, but critics say policy choices helped create it, as #DonaldTrump allies float restructuring plans that could shift service toward profit driven models and away from universal delivery. #PostalService #economy The U.S. Postal Service reported major financial losses in recent years, including billions in annual deficits, while warning about long term cash challenges. A key factor was a 2006 law requiring USPS to pre fund retiree health benefits decades in advance, a mandate unique among federal agencies. The transcript cites a warning that there is “less than 12 months of cash left” and describes a privatization approach where profitable segments are separated and costs rise. Proposals discussed publicly have included moving USPS oversight or restructuring operations, while critics argue changes could reduce service in rural areas and affect hundreds of thousands of postal workers. — ✉️📫✉️📫✉️ #usps postoffice fdt mail amazon Wall Street has a plan to carve up the postal service while the Trump administration holds the door open. Sources include: Federal News Network — "USP“ cutting delivery days 'on ‘he table,'" M’” 17, 2026 NPR — "USP“ is running out of money," Ma” 17, 2026 CNN — "US “ostal Service will run out of cash within a year," Ma” 18, 2026 GV Wire / Reuters — "USP“ Could Run Out of Money as Soon as October," Ma” 17, 2026 U.S. House Oversight Committee — Hearing Wrap Up, Mar 2026 U.S. GAO — "Act“on Needed to Fix Unsustainable Business Model," GA”-26-107336 PBS NewsHour — "The“potential impact of a Trump takeover of USPS," Fe” 22, 2025 Rep. Budzinski — 159-member letter opposing privatization, Mar 10, 2025 In These Times / Jacobin — "The“Big Bank Plotting to Privatize the Post Office,” Mar 2025 Follow @_paperplanet_ for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson"

60 likes, 1 comments - voteinorout on March 27, 2026: "The crisis at #USPS is being framed as collapse, but critics say policy choices helped create it, as #DonaldTrump allies float restructuring plans that could shift service toward profit driven models and away from universal delivery. #PostalService #economy The U.S. Postal Service reported major financial losses in recent years, including billions in annual deficits, while warning about long term cash challenges. A key factor was a 2006 law requiring USPS to pre fund retiree health benefits decades in advance, a mandate unique among federal agencies. The transcript cites a warning that there is “less than 12 months of cash left” and describes a privatization approach where profitable segments are separated and costs rise. Proposals discussed publicly have included moving USPS oversight or restructuring operations, while critics argue changes could reduce service in rural areas and affect hundreds of thousands of postal workers. — ✉️📫✉️📫✉️ #usps postoffice fdt mail amazon Wall Street has a plan to carve up the postal service while the Trump administration holds the door open. Sources include: Federal News Network — "USP“ cutting delivery days 'on ‘he table,'" M’” 17, 2026 NPR — "USP“ is running out of money," Ma” 17, 2026 CNN — "US “ostal Service will run out of cash within a year," Ma” 18, 2026 GV Wire / Reuters — "USP“ Could Run Out of Money as Soon as October," Ma” 17, 2026 U.S. House Oversight Committee — Hearing Wrap Up, Mar 2026 U.S. GAO — "Act“on Needed to Fix Unsustainable Business Model," GA”-26-107336 PBS NewsHour — "The“potential impact of a Trump takeover of USPS," Fe” 22, 2025 Rep. Budzinski — 159-member letter opposing privatization, Mar 10, 2025 In These Times / Jacobin — "The“Big Bank Plotting to Privatize the Post Office,” Mar 2025 Follow @_paperplanet_ for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson".

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Whenever I see a scan that my incoming mail includes an advertisement that the Post Office is hiring, I never receive it.

It's the only mail NEVER delievered 🤔

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

...except if it's about ourselves hiring. In that case, it won't make it to you.

#USPS #Mail #Hiring

I once worked at a USPS remote encoding center in Gary processing unreadable addresses one Christmas season as a temp in the 1990s.

The old building is now a charter school across the street from a senior midrise building.

The shift started in the evening with incoming mail then ended when outgoing mail was processed.

I enjoyed this job, but only did it for a couple of months.

One REC remains b/c computers can read most handwriting.

https://www.core77.com/posts/116562/Horrific-UIUX-How-the-USPS-Deals-with-Unreadable-Addresses

#usps #indiana #technology

Horrific UI/UX: How the USPS Deals with Unreadable Addresses - Core77

Tom Scott dealing with a code developed in the '90s

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