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Normally the postal service would not refuse to deliver your mail without a valid reason, a loose dog, no mail box, a blocked mailbox or threatening behavior toward a mail carrier. Your mail delivery will more than likely resume if the problem, whatever it is, is resolved.

Delivery shall occur at least six days a week, except during weeks that include a Federal holiday, in emergency situations, such as natural disasters, or in geographic areas where the Postal Service has established a policy of delivering mail fewer than six days a week as of the date of enactment of the Postal Service ...

An Act of Congress of March 3, 1863, effective July 1, 1863, provided that free city delivery be established at Post Offices where income from local postage was more than sufficient to pay all expenses of the service. For the first time, Americans had to put street addresses on their letters.

For Priority Mail senders may be entitled to a refund and if the mail carrier has intentionally refused to deliver your mail, that is a criminal offense. Otherwise, however, the Postal Service can be sued only for person injury or property damage under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

USPS said text messages or emails will not be sent to a customer unless the customer registered on their website to receive this type of communication, adding their messages will not contain a link. Experts say to keep track of your deliveries.

§1701. Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

DeJoy earned this in addition to his $305,681 salary, the highest ever paid for the top job at USPS. In all, DeJoy earned about as much as President Joe Biden. The typical annual pay for all postal service employees, meanwhile, was $51,150 in 2020 — the most recent year surveyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.