Monday, January 5, 2026
You can contribute more to the TSP this year
The IRS has announced new limits for 2026
Postal Service employees can contribute as much as $24,500 to the Thrift Savings Plan in 2026, up from $23,500 in 2025.
The Internal Revenue Service recently announced the new contribution limits for the retirement savings plan, also known as the TSP.
Employees 50 and older can contribute an additional $8,000 to the plan in 2026, while employees 60 to 63 will be able to contribute a total of $11,250 in catch-up contributions.
Employees who are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System, or FERS, can receive a matching contribution of up to 5 percent from the Postal Service.
USPS encourages employees who are not maxing out their contributions to consider increasing their contribution amounts whenever they can to reach their retirement savings goals.
To make changes to TSP contributions, employees should go to the MyHR website to access PostalEASE. To make changes to their investment fund, employees should go to the TSP website.
Heroes
She saved a man who had been shot multiple times
The letter carrier came to the victim’s aid after she heard his screams
Dayton, OH, Letter Carrier Sydney Billingsley was delivering mail recently when she heard a customer screaming for help from inside his house.
She went to the door and discovered the man had been shot multiple times.
Billingsley called 911 and then applied pressure to the customer’s wounds, drawing on her first-aid training.
She kept him conscious by talking with him until police and paramedics arrived.
After a monthlong stay in the hospital, the man, 51, is expected to make a full recovery.
Billingsley remains in contact with the customer and a suspect in the shooting has been arrested.
Dayton Mayor Jeffrey Mims acknowledged the Postal Service employee’s heroism and proclaimed a “Sydney Billingsley Day” in her honor.
Employees featured in “Heroes” receive letters of commendation through the Postmaster General Heroes’ Program. The nomination form is available on Blue.
Week in Review
Here’s what Link covered Dec. 28-Jan. 3
We looked back at 2025 and ahead to the new year
Link began last week in retrospective mode.
We reviewed the most memorable “On the Job” stories of the year, as well as the best photographs we published.
Additionally, we took a final look at the holiday season with special editions of our “People” and “News Quiz” features, and in our “History” column, we flashed back to Jan. 4, 1982, when USPS introduced E-COM, an early twist on email.
It was also a week for news about finances — both organizational and personal.
We reported on the Postal Service’s new penny-rounding policy for retail cash transactions and told you that the USPS Commuter Program will allow participants to set aside up to $340 a month for transit and up to $340 a month for parking, tax-free this year.
Additionally, we published our annual calendar that shows the Postal Service’s paydays for 2026.
Finally, our “Heroes” column turned a spotlight on Sydney Billingsley, a Dayton, OH, letter carrier who came to the aid of a man who had been shot multiple times.
Jeffrey Mims, Dayton’s mayor, later acknowledged the Postal Service employee’s heroism and proclaimed a “Sydney Billingsley Day” in her honor.
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