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Atlanta-area mail delays, which Postmaster Louis DeJoy promised would improve following a national slowdown last summer, remain far below US Postal Service standards, threatening to disenfranchise thousands of legal voters who mailed in ballots in a pair of pivotal U.S. Senate runoffs this week.

The Los Angeles, Santa Ana and Santa Clarita postal districts of the U.S. Postal Service have immediate job openings, it was announced Monday.

Santa Claus is totally amazing, delivering millions of presents to children all over the world each year. But even Santa can use some extra elf help during the holiday season. And in the new documentary “Dear Santa,” directed by Dana Nachman, audiences get to meet elves from around the U.S., plus the children who’ve asked for special presents for Christmas and...

If you mailed-out holiday gifts weeks ago thinking the packages would arrive in plenty of time for Christmas Day, you may want to check the status of the delivery.

The United States Postal Service has launched its 108th annual USPS Operation Santa, which allows the public to grant wishes of children and families in need of holiday gifts.

For more than 100 years, thousands of children in need have been helped through USPS’ Operation Santa. The documentary “Dear Santa” takes an inside look at what kids from all over the country ask St. Nick and how anyone can help make their dreams come true. The director, Dana Nachman, joined LX News to talk about which wishes touched her...

Because more than half the states – including most of the key battlegrounds – don’t provide a grace period for ballots that arrive after Election Day, it is likely 25,000-50,000 ballots nationwide were ultimately rejected because of USPS problems.

While U.S. Postal Service workers likely delivered more than 99.9% of the country’s mail ballots in time to be counted this year, it also appears that tens of thousands were disenfranchised by postal delays.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced Tuesday that they are preparing for the upcoming holidays, and they will be hiring in much of the Los Angeles area, Santa Ana and the coastal district of Sierra.

United States Postal Service officials are looking into a video shared by the Florida House Democratic Leader showing what he says are piles of unsorted mail sitting in a Miami-Dade post office, sparking concerns that valid ballots won’t be counted.

The mail is slowing down as the November election approaches, according to an unscientific survey by the NBC Owned Television Stations, Telemundo and NBCLX. While letters mailed across town arrived on time, mail sent longer distances arrived days later than expected in the group’s third monthly test of the U.S. Postal Service. Nearly a third of the 809 letters...

The removal of sorting machines at post office facilities, blue boxes from street corners, and a recent decline in delivering first-class mail on time has raised concerns about the US Postal Service’s capacity to process mail during election season. Lolita Lopez reports for NBC4 News on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020.

California is one of nine states to mail ballots to every registered voter, but each one of them needs to be verified first. Vickki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020.

The U.S. Postal Service isn’t delivering mail as quickly as it should, but the delays don’t appear significant enough – at this time – to disrupt an election, according to a September test by NBCLX and NBC Owned Television Stations.

Data obtained by The Associated Press shows Postal Service districts across the nation are missing the agency’s own standards for on-time delivery as millions of Americans prepare to vote by mail

Officials from six states and the District of Columbia have asked a federal judge to halt what they say are slowdowns at the U.S. Postal Service that threaten the upcoming presidential election

The U.S. Postal Service must live up to its responsibilities to timely process election mail by treating it as a priority, a New York judge ordered on Monday, adding that the agency’s workers should be permitted to make extra deliveries and work overtime near the November presidential election.

A group of states suing over service cuts at the U.S. Postal Service is asking a federal judge to immediately undo some of them, saying the integrity of the upcoming election is at stake.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is facing increased scrutiny as House Democrats investigate allegations that he encouraged employees at his former business to contribute to Republican candidates and then reimbursed them in the guise of bonuses

President Trump has slammed the U.S. Postal Service for losing money. But as NBCLX’s Chase Cain explains, the USPS is designed to be a service, not a for-profit business. In this episode of our series “The Myth,” we’re debunking the fiction of a profitable post office.