USPS

New service standards the United States Postal Service rolled out last month could impact Ohioans — especially those in rural communities.

A man serving more than six years after robbing two Columbus-area mail carriers at gunpoint was denied compassionate release by a federal judge a few years into the sentence.

Senator Rob Portman says without reform, U.S.P.S. will fail.

The embattled USPS has been losing billions of dollars annually in recent years. The bill, which focuses on cutting health care costs, would result in $50 billion in savings over 10 years.

Wes Wheeler, president of UPS Healthcare, told NPR Sunday that the first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines is on its way to sites in all 50 states, complete with dry ice and Bluetooth technology.