WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service has quietly begun offering a handful of new or expanded financial services in four cities, a potential first step toward a return to postal banking, which ...

When U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy laid out plans Tuesday for the future of the post office, he pointed to higher postage rates and slower first class mail as a means of stemming postal service ...

The U.S. Postal Service began offering expanded financial services in a handful of cities last fall, a potential first step toward a return to postal banking. In a pilot program, select Postal Service ...

The need for a public banking option is urgent. Nearly 10 million households, a disproportionate number of whom are people of color, are unbanked in the United States. Unbanked or underbanked ...

History and necessity, it appears. The concept surfaced in headlines earlier this month as the U.S. Postal Service acknowledged a pilot launched quietly in mid-September in four communities to gauge ...

As lawmakers work on finishing fiscal 2022 appropriations, they’ll have to decide whether to keep a House spending provision that would allow some post offices to offer more financial services. Coming ...

Last month, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan, the boldest economic relief package since President Roosevelt’s New Deal nearly a century ago. For many, the most notable portion of the package ...

Local leaders gathered at the Hunts Point post office to advocate for postal banking. The group was at the office as they attempted to drop off a petition to reinstate banking services. Up until the ...