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The U.S. Postal Service is investing in new package sorting machines and hiring new workers to prep for the crucial holiday season, with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Wednesday saying the agency is ready for the busy season. So send us your packages and your mail mdash;and we will deliver timely, DeJoy said at the USPS Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday.Yet the postal service i stanley cups s already missing its delivery standards: In October, a month when mail volume is typically lighter than the holiday season, 91% of mail was delivered on time mdash; lower than its goal of delivering 95% on time. And those missed standards alreadyrepresent the USPS new lower delivery guidelines, which went into effect in October and slowed delivery for 4 out of 10 pieces of mail. It underscores they aren t performing and doing what they said they were going to do, stanley mug noted Paul Steidler, senior fellow at the Lexington Institute and an expert on the postal service. It s especially not great for October because it s a slow month for mail, so it s not a good barometer for the performance during the coming holiday season.The pressure is on the USPS mdash; and Postmaster General DeJoy mdash; to improve performance after last year s disastrous holiday season. Consumers were hit with delivery delays as the USPS struggled with unprecedented demand partly sparked by a sh stanley bottles ift to online shopping due to COVID-19. DeJoy on Wednesday described the postal agency Asxg GOP Hopefuls Restrained In Iowa Debate
In rapid succession, congressional committees Wednesday ramped up their investigations of the Bush administration by approving a subpoena for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and granting immunity to a former key aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.By 21-10, the House oversight committee voted to issue a subpoena to Rice to compel her story on the Bush administration s claim, now discredited, that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa. We note the committee s actions and will b stanley mug e consulting with the White House on this matter, State Department Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey w stanley cup rote in an e-mail message. As I said earlier today, the Secretary has addressed this four-year old issue on many occasions and the subject already has been exhaustively investigated. Moments earlier in the committee chamber next door, the House Jud stanley quencher iciary Committee voted 32-6 to grant immunity to Monica Goodling, Gonzales White House liaison, for her testimony on why the administration fired eight federal prosecutors. The panel also unanimously approved mdash; but did not issue mdash; a subpoena to compel her to appear.Simultaneously across Capitol Hill, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved mdash; but did not issue mdash; a subpoena on the prosecutors matter to Sara Taylor, deputy to presidential adviser Karl Rove. The House oversight committee also issued subpoenas for the Republican National Committee for testimony and documents about White Hou
The U.S. Postal Service is investing in new package sorting machines and hiring new workers to prep for the crucial holiday season, with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Wednesday saying the agency is ready for the busy season. So send us your packages and your mail mdash;and we will deliver timely, DeJoy said at the USPS Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday.Yet the postal service i stanley cups s already missing its delivery standards: In October, a month when mail volume is typically lighter than the holiday season, 91% of mail was delivered on time mdash; lower than its goal of delivering 95% on time. And those missed standards alreadyrepresent the USPS new lower delivery guidelines, which went into effect in October and slowed delivery for 4 out of 10 pieces of mail. It underscores they aren t performing and doing what they said they were going to do, stanley mug noted Paul Steidler, senior fellow at the Lexington Institute and an expert on the postal service. It s especially not great for October because it s a slow month for mail, so it s not a good barometer for the performance during the coming holiday season.The pressure is on the USPS mdash; and Postmaster General DeJoy mdash; to improve performance after last year s disastrous holiday season. Consumers were hit with delivery delays as the USPS struggled with unprecedented demand partly sparked by a sh stanley bottles ift to online shopping due to COVID-19. DeJoy on Wednesday described the postal agency Asxg GOP Hopefuls Restrained In Iowa Debate
In rapid succession, congressional committees Wednesday ramped up their investigations of the Bush administration by approving a subpoena for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and granting immunity to a former key aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.By 21-10, the House oversight committee voted to issue a subpoena to Rice to compel her story on the Bush administration s claim, now discredited, that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa. We note the committee s actions and will b stanley mug e consulting with the White House on this matter, State Department Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey w stanley cup rote in an e-mail message. As I said earlier today, the Secretary has addressed this four-year old issue on many occasions and the subject already has been exhaustively investigated. Moments earlier in the committee chamber next door, the House Jud stanley quencher iciary Committee voted 32-6 to grant immunity to Monica Goodling, Gonzales White House liaison, for her testimony on why the administration fired eight federal prosecutors. The panel also unanimously approved mdash; but did not issue mdash; a subpoena to compel her to appear.Simultaneously across Capitol Hill, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved mdash; but did not issue mdash; a subpoena on the prosecutors matter to Sara Taylor, deputy to presidential adviser Karl Rove. The House oversight committee also issued subpoenas for the Republican National Committee for testimony and documents about White Hou