U.S. Postal Service on Friday finalized a plan to slow down some first-class mail deliveries as part of an initiative to cut down red ink, Reuters reported.
The plan, which will go into effect on Oct. 1, will revise the existing one- to three-day service standards to one to five days. The postal service will keep 61 percent of the mail at its current standard, according to the news outlet.
Delivery service will also be slower for about 7 percent of periodicals.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who initially proposed the idea in March, said while the changes may be “uncomfortable,” they are committed to delivering to “every address in the nation, six days a week, and strives for financial sustainability.”
The Postal Service’s “addition of one or two days to current service standards for first-class mail and periodicals would enable the Postal Service to convey a greater volume of mail within the contiguous United States by surface transportation,” the notice said.
As Much as they OVERCHARGE for everything , they Better SPEED up !!!!
They remain a total mess with CONgress always bailing them out, even though they are a gov’t entity that doesn’t obtain a budget (taxpayer $$$$) from CONgress.
5 days a week works into todays environment. When one gets mail on saturday (say maybe a check or SSN check), banks are already closed so to say there is that small population that needs Saturday delivery – huh?
Especially if that small population uses computers, then why not direct deposit? Hmmmmm…..
It’s already slow enough except for junk mail. Slow it down anymore and they would be better off going back to pony express
And don’t forget how fast they deliver ABSENTEE BALLOTS during an election!!!!
I have always supported the USPS because they pay a good living wage and the service was very reliable. However one more late fee, I had many last winter, on early mailed payments and I will begin paying by electronic check over the phone.
They deliver more trash than mail. Who mails anything other than a card to someone and that’s a dated nostalgic notion. It’s no way to conduct business anymore personal or otherwise. I have one of the first roll of ” Forever ” stamps and it looks like it will be Forever. More people have been victims of identity theft via the mail than where ever hacked online. I won’t even buy anything shipped via USPS. How the hell do you cancel mail service ?
Leave the delivery service alone time wise.
Change the trash mail cost to what I have to pay for important mail / bills so I will not be charged late fees by these companies who are already ripping us off by not posting in our accounts when they arrive.
Service should be excellence with what the POSTAL SERVICE charges now. They are not efficient in their work at all.
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The U.S. Postal Service lost money in six out of the 10 years from 2001 through 2010, according to its financial reports. YET THE DEMOCRATS AND MAIN STREAM MEDIA ARE BLAMING TRUMP & the VIRUS???????? Listed are the losses BEFORE TRUMP AND VIRUS. Any other business would have had to file bankruptcy by now but Pelosi is insistant to bail them out again for POLITICAL REASONS!!!! How would they get their FAKE mail in ballots in to their paid poll workers in time.
Postal Service Net Income/Loss By Year
• 2019 – $8.8 billion loss
• 2018 – $3.9 billion loss
• 2017 – $2.7 billion loss
• 2016 – $5.6 billion loss
• 2015 – $5.1 billion loss
• 2014 – $5.5 billion loss
• 2013 – $5 billion loss
• 2012 – $15.9 billion loss
• 2011 – $5.1 billion loss
• 2010 – $8.5 billion loss
• 2009 – $3.8 billion loss
• 2008 – $2.8 billion loss
• 2007 – $5.1 billion loss
• 2006 – $900 million surplus
• 2005 – $1.4 billion surplus
• 2004 – $3.1 billion surplus
• 2003 – $3.9 billion surplus
• 2002 – $676 million loss
• 2001 – $1.7 billion loss
They Back-Date Ballots at a Raphid pace !!!!! (for Biden ) 2020
I always thought any enterprise, or even government would or should strive to speed up or improve. But not today. They strive to go downward instead.