The United States Post Office has temporarily suspended services at the USPS building in west Houston where a deadly crash occurred, according to the agency.

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020, file photo, mail delivery vehicles are parked outside a post office in Boys Town, Neb. Oshkosh Defense, a division of Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Corp., will assemble 50,000 to 165,000 of the new Next Generation Delivery Vehicles at its existing U.S. manufacturing facilities. USPS described the deal as the first part of a multibillion-dollar 10-year effort to replace its delivery vehicle fleet. The choice of Wisconsin-based Oshkosh is a big miss for Ohio-based electric vehicle startup Workhorse Group, which put in an all-electric bid for the vehicles. Traditional mail volumes have declined, while the service now delivers millions of packages from online retailers like Amazon that did not exist when the previous mail vehicle was introduced.

Some questions and answers about what's going on with the post office and the upcoming election:WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE POST OFFICE? The Post Office has lost money for years, though advocates note its a government service rather than a profit-maximizing business. In June, Louis DeJoy, a Republican donor and logistics company executive, took over as the new postmaster general and Trump tasked him with trying to make the Postal Service more profitable. Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington state have universal mail voting, and California, Nevada and Vermont are starting universal mail voting in November. Postal Service Office of Inspector General said the office is "conducting a body of work to address the concerns raised. She declined to elaborate.

Credit: John Jordan/The Texas TribuneSign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Postal Service has warned Texas officials that some ballots cast by mail may not arrive in time to be counted for the November election thanks to certain state deadlines for mail-in ballots being incompatible with its delivery standards. It is unclear how many Texas voters may be affected should such delays occur. In Texas July 14 primary runoff elections, some hopeful voters who submitted their applications for mail-in voting on time indicated they never received their ballots. Other voters received their mail-in ballots and sent them in to be counted, only to have them returned unopened.