by | Mar 21, 2025

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is uniquely adept at losing money. America’s mail carrier lost $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2024 and has shed more than $100 billion over the past fifteen years. And now, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is suggesting the…

by | Feb 18, 2025

The Trump administration recently moved to cancel the de minimis trade exemption, a policy that previously allowed low-cost imports to enter the U.S. tariff-free. This was bad news for Temu, the Chinese e-commerce giant that built its business on ultra-cheap…

by | Jan 8, 2025

Patience has understandably worn thin with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). After America’s mail carrier lost $9.5 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2024 and announced plans to raise stamp prices five more times through 2027, it’s little wonder that President-elect…

by | Dec 18, 2024

“USPS Delays,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator, Dec. 18, 2024.

by | Jun 30, 2023

Employees seeking religious accommodation in the workplace won a big victory Thursday as the Supreme Court sided with a former U.S. Postal Service worker who says he was disciplined for refusing to work for religious reasons on his Sabbath. In…

by | Jun 13, 2023

Reports of the U.S. Postal Service’s impending demise are greatly exaggerated. According to a “national business agent” for the American Postal Workers Union, the agency “is being stolen from under [the public’s] feet.” At a recent rally, postal workers accused their employer of…

by | Mar 12, 2023

Audiences watching horror films know too well that, when the menacing phone call is coming from inside the house, the protagonist is bound to have a bad time. Lawmakers and antitrust regulators should take that lesson to heart when evaluating…

by | Feb 13, 2023

Leaders love to muse and think about what their job would be like without any checks or accountability. Few would have guessed that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy would follow in the footsteps of Presidents George Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump…

by | Feb 1, 2023

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been hauled into court plenty of times, having experienced its fair share of administrative and election law cases. But now, America’s mail carrier faces fundamental questions over religious tolerance at the post office. USA…

by | Dec 7, 2022

The U.S. Postal Service is in rough shape. Despite (misguided) congressional attempts to bring the agency back into the black, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy still projects $60–$70 billion in additional losses through 2030. Postal efficiency has slid in recent years, and…

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