While many of you may have experienced going to your local post office and picking up some free packaging — a box, envelope, or tube, maybe — you may not know that you can order the same supplies and have them delivered to your front door.
Born between 1997 and 2012, Generation Z (Gen Z) is growing up with endless Internet connectivity and social media as a part of daily life. While this may suggest that Gen Zers are essentially “digital only,” it couldn’t be further from the truth. Despite — or perhaps because of — the pervasive availability of technology, Gen Z values and uses physical mail. What’s more, this generation perceives mail as special and meaningful.
Even though the Internet has only been a part of our lives for a relatively short time, its transformative power is virtually unrivaled in modern history. It’s hard to imagine what life would be like without it.
Unfortunately, many Americans don’t have to imagine. According to the Federal Communications Commission, more than 18 million Americans don’t have access to high-speed Internet service. These “have-nots” constitute the so-called “digital divide” and are shut out of the myriad of economic, educational, and social benefits the Internet has to offer.
We all know that some days time goes fast, and other days, it’s slow. But when you work in a postal facility, the relative nature of time isn’t important; it’s the time you actually worked. How does the Postal Service keep track of its workers’ time on the job?
Postal employees swipe...
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After the White House issued an emergency declaration regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in late winter of 2020, many people began working from home. But like others deemed essential, U.S. Postal Service employees continued reporting to work. The mail had to keep moving; critical items such as...
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It’s an all-too familiar cycle. New types of communication channels bring new types of deception. Telemarketing brought robocall scams, the growth of email brought about phishing, and now, as more companies communicate with customers through text messages, comes… smishing.
What’s smishing...
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The Postal Service processes billions of mail pieces each year, some of which are deemed “undeliverable” because of incorrect, incomplete, or illegible addresses or other reasons. Undeliverable as addressed (UAA) mail is costly to both the Postal Service and its customers – about $1.3 billion a...
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