Postal
Postal traffic is to the U.S. is still down about 70% five weeks after the end of the “de minimis” exemption that spared low-value packages from duties and packages, the United Nations postal agency said Friday. Confusion has reigned since the U.S. ended the tariff exemption for packages worth less than $800 on Aug. 29. In September, […]
Postal services across Europe have suspended most parcel shipments to the US, citing widespread uncertainty about the impact of new import tariffs announced by Donald Trump. France’s La Poste on Monday joined other operators, including Germany’s Deutsche Post, Spain’s Correos, Poste Italiane and the Belgian, Swedish and Danish postal services, which all halted a majority […]
Storch Advisors CEO Gerald Storch says Walmart’s strong earnings show it’s ‘winning this game,’ while Target faces falling sales, messy stores and leadership turmoil on ‘Varney & Co.’ Postal services in Europe and around the world plan to halt shipping merchandise to the U.S. as the Trump administration’s end of the de minimus tariff exemption […]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The end of an exemption on tariff duties for low-value packages coming into the United States is causing multiple international postal services to pause shipping as they await more clarity on the rule. The exemption, known as the “ de minimis ” exemption, allows packages worth less than $800 to come […]
Updated on: August 23, 2025 / 9:33 AM EDT / AP Multiple postal services around Europe announced Saturday that they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties. Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise […]
The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating its 250th anniversary this weekend, and you won’t have to check your mailbox for the invite. The agency’s semiquincentennial will be marked by an event at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, two and a half centuries since its founding. Two newly announced commemorative stamps […]
Let me tell you about my mother. For twenty-five years, five, sometimes six, days a week, she drove the same fifty miles, following the main roads and back roads of her mail route, which included some five hundred households. She left home before six in the morning, dropping my sisters and me off with one […]
Hong Kong Post said on Wednesday it had suspended goods mail services by sea to the US and will suspend its air mail postal service for items containing goods from 27 April due to “bullying” US tariffs. When sending items to the US, people in Hong Kong “should be prepared to pay exorbitant and unreasonable […]
Countless Black workers may be at risk following reports of President Donald Trump’s plans for the United States Postal Service (USPS), per The Guardian. According to the Washington Post, Trump is expected to take control of the USPS, signing an executive order to privatize the agency under the Commerce Department. The USPS employs roughly 640,000 […]
Countless Black workers may be at risk following reports of President Donald Trump’s plans for the United States Postal Service (USPS), per The Guardian. According to the Washington Post, Trump is expected to take control of the USPS, signing an executive order to privatize the agency under the Commerce Department. The USPS employs roughly 640,000 […]