![]() ![]() Stakeholder issues and other challenges could prevent USPS from implementing its plan for consolidating its mail processing network or achieving its cost savings goals. The Postal Regulatory Commission is currently reviewing USPS’s proposal to change delivery service standards. This goal includes saving $4 billion by consolidating its mail processing and transportation network and reducing excess capacity as indicated in the table below. Consolidating its network is one of several initiatives, including moving from a 6-day to a 5-day delivery schedule and reducing compensation and benefits, that USPS has proposed to meet a savings goal of $22.5 billion by 2016. ![]() In December 2011, USPS issued a proposal for consolidating its mail processing network, which is based on proposed changes to overnight delivery service standards for First-Class Mail and Periodicals. Excess capacity remains, however, because of continuing and accelerating declines in First-Class Mail volume, automation improvements that sort mail faster and more efficiently, and increasing mail preparation and transportation by business mailers, much of whose mail now bypasses most of USPS’s processing network. ![]() Postal Service (USPS) has closed redundant facilities and consolidated mail processing operations and transportation to reduce excess capacity in its network, resulting in reported cost savings of about $2.4 billion. Postal Service: Mail Processing Network Exceeds What Is Needed for Declining Mail Volume What GAO Found In addition, late and missed delivery of mail is certainly nothing new – we’ve posted news articles regarding this fact for years and years. It just so happens that Louis DeJoy was the one Trump chose – and the fact that DeJoy was a Trump supporter made these people hate DeJoy even more.Ĭonsolidating USPS processing centers and post offices has been talked about, and followed through on, for a VERY long time…way before Louis DeJoy or Donald Trump became popular news. And that is the bottom line…all of these news sources hate the fact that President Trump chose the Postmaster General…no matter what his or her name would have been. PEN – 8/28/22 – You can find and read, if you’re so inclined, articles such as the one above all across the Internet – all from left wing media sources – all from haters of former President Trump. Unions representing postal workers have accused USPS management of keeping them in the dark about the consolidation plan, an integral component of DeJoy’s strategy for the next decade.Ĭharlie Cash, the industrial relations director at the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union (APWU), wrote in a message to members on Thursday that “we do not know much more than what is already published in the public domain.” Moves to Consolidate USPS Facilities Did Not Start with DeJoy – Neither Did Late Mail The initial consolidations are expected to begin as soon as next month.” “The impacted sites are located in Georgia, New York, Texas, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Kentucky, Washington, North Carolina, Indiana, and Arkansas. The impacted post offices will still conduct their retail operations, but many of the back-end functions will be stripped away and relocated,” the outlet noted. “The changes will mean letter carriers no longer go to their local facility to pick up mail for their route, instead traveling farther distances after starting at a consolidated location. Postal Service facilities are set to shed some of their operations as soon as this year as the mailing agency seeks to consolidate those functions at larger buildings, according to documents shared by management.” Government Executive reported Friday that “more than 200 post offices and other U.S. as part of his widely condemned 10-year plan to reshape the public mail agency. ‘A True Danger to the Public Post Office’: DeJoy Moves to Consolidate USPS FacilitiesĬommon Dreams – 8/27/22 – Postal union officials are sounding the alarm about the potentially damaging impacts of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s effort to consolidate post offices across the U.S. ![]()
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