Some who work on postal reform legislation estimate that as many as 150,000 USPS employees could retire today, and another 100,000 could be eligible in the next four years.

The U.S. Postal Service is looking to shed thousands of employees in early 2018, offering early retirement incentives to 26,000 mail handlers and clerks. All employees who accept the offer must ...

A top government watchdog has cast doubt on assertions that the U.S. Postal Service paid tens of billions of dollars too much into a federal retirement program. The Government Accountability ...

June 23, 2011 — -- A U.S. Postal Service decision to suspend employer contributions to a postal worker retirement account is causing alarm among its employees. "It was sheer chaos on the work ...

About 550,000 full-time career federal government and U.S. Postal Service could hang it up and move on at anytime because they are eligible to retire, according to statistics obtained Thursday.

Retired city carriers will be eligible to earn $15.68 per hour. There will be no reduction or offset in their retirement pay if they return to the Postal Service.