In June, the Senate parliamentarian blocked a Republican proposal in President Trump’s massive tax-and-spending bill to sell off the agency’s new electric vehicles and infrastructure and revoke remaining federal money. But efforts to halt the fleet’s shift to clean energy continue in the name of cost savings.

“The 18th stamp in the Distinguished Americans series honors humanitarian Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), a survivor of Nazi concentration camps whose dozens of works bore witness to the Holocaust and whose resilience and compassion continue to be a source of inspiration,” a description for the stamp on the USPS website reads.

In June, the Senate parliamentarian blocked a proposal put forward by Republicans to sell electric vehicles and infrastructure belonging to the postal service.

The Postal Service, like last year, is proposing bringing back a holiday rate hike this year for some of its package services as the agency approaches its busy year-end season.

Proposed changes could raise costs for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa packages to and from overseas APO and FPO military addresses.

When the United States became a nation, a free press and the unhindered flow of ideas and commerce was enabled by a universally accessible Postal Service. In those early, formative years, the Postal Service was part of the bedrock of America’s economy and its democracy — and it always has been.

U.S. Representatives from several states recently formed a bipartisan caucus to rally support to improve the United States Postal Service. Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Watersmeet), Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D-IL),

U.S. Rep. Jefferson Shreve, R-Indiana, center, meets with U.S. Postal Service officials during a briefing before a tour of the Indianapolis Regional Processing and Distribution Center in April. Shreve’s office reported a 21% increase in service times since delivery issues were widely reported across central and southern Indiana earlier this year.