To drop mail at the 20 post offices nearest the Newburgh P&DC, a contract truck drives about 100 miles (66 miles straight line). If the 180 carriers at these offices all go back & forth between the P&DC and their routes (an average of 17 miles RT), they’ll drive over 3,000 miles.
DeJoy's plan to move carrier routes from post offices to centralized facilities and thereby cut costs on the contract trucks that deliver the mail to these post offices may sound reasonable, but consider this....
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/08/postal-employees-voice-major-concerns-usps-begins-implementing-its-delivery-consolidation-plan/375416/ via @GovExec
Here's the passage in the Inflation Reduction Act appropriating $3 billion to USPS for electric trucks.
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/inflation_reduction_act_of_2022.pdf
That’s right. $3 billion to USPS for electric delivery trucks + charging — which will go a long way as leadership continually evaluates its purchase plan. https://twitter.com/sgtj00/status/1556364758537977856
In fact, a 2012 OIG report estimated that an average of 1 extra mile between delivery unit and first stop on the carrier route would increase travel costs by $374 million on 9,800 DUOs. The savings came from reduced floor space per carrier and clerk labor.
https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2015/rarc-wp-12-015_0.pdf
Any savings from consolidating delivery units will not come from cutting travel costs. They'll come from eliminating clerk and postmaster jobs at the post offices that lose their carriers, reducing their retail hours, relocating to smaller spaces, etc.
The additional cost of having thousands of carriers traveling from the new sorting centers to their routes will far exceed the savings from eliminating contract trucks going from P&DC to delivery units. https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/08/postal-employees-voice-major-concerns-usps-begins-implementing-its-delivery-consolidation-plan/375416/ via @GovExec
“The USPS will adhere to all legal, statutory, contractual, and regulatory requirements as we evaluate a potential nationwide rollout of this initiative,” a USPS spokesperson said. Will that include an Advisory Opinion from the @PostalRegulagor?
Postal Employees Voice Major Concerns as USPS Begins Implementing Its Delivery Consolidation Plan
Postal management says the changes will save money and lead to better working conditions.
www.govexec.com
In 2011-2015, the USPS relocated carrier operations at about 2750 post offices. Over half had their retail hours cut under POStPlan. If 7000 post offices see their delivery units closed, how many will also have their retail hours cut? (Cutting hours is part of the 10 Year Plan.)
The APWU is "dismayed" by the delivery consolidation plan because its clerks will have less work to do at the 7,000 post offices where carrier units are shut down. Several thousand clerk jobs could be eliminated as a result. via @GovExec
Postal Employees Voice Major Concerns as USPS Begins Implementing Its Delivery Consolidation Plan
Postal management says the changes will save money and lead to better working conditions.
www.govexec.com
Community and Postal Workers United Summer 2022 Newsletter
To Be Discontinued: The Postal Service identifies 170 suspended post offices for permanent closure
Rationale for a Suspension Dashboard: Comments for the PRC’s Public Inquiry
Counting Up Collection Box Removals in 2020-2021: Lists & Maps
Lost in Limbo: Post Offices Under Suspension
How slower mail has become a fact of life: USPS Service Performance and Postal Reform
Emergency Suspension Dashboard
Suspension date: 5/9/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 9/8/2020
Reason: Damage - Fire
Suspension date: 3/2/2013
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 8/1/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
Suspension date: 12/3/2012
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 6/25/2009
Reason: Lease terminated lessor
Suspension date: 11/30/2012
Reason: Damage
Suspension date: 12/15/2012
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 12/1/2011
Reason: No qualified personnel
Suspension date: 3/7/2012
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 9/13/2019
Reason: Lease terminated by Lessor
Suspension date: 6/1/2009
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 10/31/2011
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 8/25/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 1/21/2020
Reason: Building Renovations
Suspension date: 5/23/2014
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 11/8/2010
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 8/30/2010
Reason: Building closed
Suspension date: 9/4/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
Suspension date: 10/3/2014
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 5/30/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
Suspension date: 7/31/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
Suspension date: 8/12/2021
Reason: Building demolished for redevelopment
Suspension date: 5/31/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 3/31/2010
Reason: Lease terminated lessor
Suspension date: 12/20/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service/ No qualified personnel
Suspension date: 4/10/2009
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 4/8/2020
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 1/31/2011
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 6/15/2011
Reason: Insufficient Customer Demand
When the Postal Service closes a post office for an emergency, like unsafe building conditions after a weather event or a last-minute breakdown in lease negotiations, it's supposed to correct the problem as soon as possible — by making repairs, settling the lease issue or finding a new location. The Postal Service, however, may choose instead to initiate a study about whether or not to close the post office permanently.
The law does not specify a time frame for re-opening the office or completing the discontinuance process, so some post offices can end up in limbo for many years. A large backlog of unresolved suspensions sometimes develops. At the end of fiscal year 2021, there were about 450 post offices under suspension, nearly a hundred of them going back to 2012 or before.
In February, the Postal Regulatory Commission opened a Public Inquiry docket (its second on suspensions) to examine how the the resolution of these suspensions might be expedited, presumably through a modification of the rules governing discontinuances.
To provide a clearer picture of the suspensions and to lend some transparency to the process of resolving them as it unfolds, we’ve created a Suspension Dashboard. It includes a page for each of the 450 suspended offices, with information about its suspension status, community demographics and facility data.
You can view the new suspension dashboard here.
When the Postal Service closes a post office for an emergency, like unsafe building conditions after a weather event or a last-minute breakdown in lease negotiations, it's supposed to correct the problem as soon as possible — by making repairs, settling the lease issue or finding a new location. The Postal Service, however, may choose instead to initiate a study about whether or not to permanently close the post office.
The law does not specify a time frame for re-opening the office or completing the discontinuance process, so some post offices can end up in limbo for many years. A large backlog of unresolved suspensions sometimes develops. At the end of fiscal year 2021, there were about 450 post offices under suspension, nearly a hundred of them going back to 2012 or before.
In February, the Postal Regulatory Commission opened a Public Inquiry docket (its second on suspensions) to examine how the the resolution of these suspensions might be expedited, presumably through a modification of the rules governing discontinuances.
You can view the new suspension dashboard here.
Suspension date: 5/9/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 9/8/2020
Reason: Damage - Fire
Suspension date: 3/2/2013
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 8/1/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
Suspension date: 12/3/2012
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 6/25/2009
Reason: Lease terminated lessor
Suspension date: 11/30/2012
Reason: Damage
Suspension date: 12/15/2012
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 12/1/2011
Reason: No qualified personnel
Suspension date: 3/7/2012
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 9/13/2019
Reason: Lease terminated by Lessor
Suspension date: 6/1/2009
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 10/31/2011
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 8/25/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 1/21/2020
Reason: Building Renovations
Suspension date: 5/23/2014
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 11/8/2010
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 8/30/2010
Reason: Building closed
Suspension date: 9/4/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
Suspension date: 10/3/2014
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 5/30/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
Suspension date: 7/31/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
Suspension date: 8/12/2021
Reason: Building demolished for redevelopment
Suspension date: 5/31/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 3/31/2010
Reason: Lease terminated lessor
Suspension date: 12/20/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service/ No qualified personnel
Suspension date: 4/10/2009
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Suspension date: 4/8/2020
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 1/31/2011
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
Suspension date: 6/15/2011
Reason: Insufficient Customer Demand
Collection Box Removals in 2020-2021: Lists & Maps
On August 20, 2020, amidst the furor over box removals, Robert Bracco, using the muckrock.com FOIA request website, filed a request asking the Postal Service to provide data “pertaining to the existence, addition, removal, or relocation of USPS collection boxes inside the United States and territories created or altered after 8/15/2019.”
On March 25, 2022 — nineteen months after the request was filed, and after seventeen follow-up messages inquiring on the status of the request — the Postal Service finally responded. It provided three lists of collection box locations in service in December 2019, 2020 and 2021. The lists make it possible to track additions and removals over this two-year period. We have the lists and maps here.
Service Performance Update
On October 1, 2021, the Postal Service lowered service standards for First Class mail, saying that this would allow it to deliver 95 percent of the mail on time. Since October, scores have averaged about 89 percent, and the Postal Service now says it will not reach 95 percent for two or three years. The new target for FY 2022 is 91 percent.
The weekly performance scores are being submitted as evidence in Pennsylvania v. DeJoy. The most recent report is here. For more performance data, check out our dashboard.
Service Performance Update
On October 1, 2021, the Postal Service lowered service standards for First Class mail, saying that this would allow it to deliver 95 percent of the mail on time. Since October, scores have averaged about 89 percent, and the Postal Service now says it will not reach 95 percent for two or three years. The new target for FY 2022 is 91 percent.
The weekly performance scores are being submitted as evidence in Pennsylvania v. DeJoy. The most recent report is here. For more performance data, check out our dashboard.
The Year in Review
How the pandemic could lead to a big USPS price hike
Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Winter 2021 Newsletter
The 2020 Mail Delays: Stats & Charts
Back to the Future: The USPS, PRC and Mailers revisit the meaning of PAEA
The Postal Service wants to slow down the mail, Congress says not so fast
“Save the Post Office” launches new Service Performance Dashboard
This week marks the 51st anniversary of the largest wildcat strike in U.S. labor history: The Great Postal Strike of 1970
What the USPS 10-year plan may have to say about future rate increases
Spring 2021 CPWU Newsletter
New dashboard on the PRC Advisory Opinion on the change in service standards
Mapping out the changes in USPS service standards
A talk with the founder of the “Save the Post Office” website
How the postal reform bill may help the Postal Service slow down the mail
Is ending air mail unfair? Testimony for the PRC’s Advisory Opinion on Changing Service Standards
Postal advocate testifies against reducing USPS service standards
Postal historian asks the PRC to return the Postal Service to a mission of service
Why the USPS proposal to reduce service standards will cause “undue discrimination”
Reply to the USPS: How the new service standards will cause geographic discrimination
Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Summer Newsletter
The 2020 USPS Household Diary Study is out
A tour of the new USPS package sorting machine
Communities and Postal Workers United: Fall 2021 Newsletter
New book examines the attack on the people’s post office and the fight to defend it
Rachel Maddow on the potential demise of DeJoy
Postlandia’s 2022 Calendar of Post Offices and Places
“The Great Postal Heist” to be released on Jan. 25, 2022
The Year in Review
How the pandemic could lead to a big USPS price hike
Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Winter 2021 Newsletter
The 2020 Mail Delays: Stats & Charts
Back to the Future: The USPS, PRC and Mailers revisit the meaning of PAEA
The Postal Service wants to slow down the mail, Congress says not so fast
“Save the Post Office” launches new Service Performance Dashboard
This week marks the 51st anniversary of the largest wildcat strike in U.S. labor history: The Great Postal Strike of 1970
What the USPS 10-year plan may have to say about future rate increases
Spring 2021 CPWU Newsletter
New dashboard on the PRC Advisory Opinion on the change in service standards
Mapping out the changes in USPS service standards
A talk with the founder of the “Save the Post Office” website
How the postal reform bill may help the Postal Service slow down the mail
Is ending air mail unfair? Testimony for the PRC’s Advisory Opinion on Changing Service Standards
Postal advocate testifies against reducing USPS service standards
Postal historian asks the PRC to return the Postal Service to a mission of service
Why the USPS proposal to reduce service standards will cause “undue discrimination”
Reply to the USPS: How the new service standards will cause geographic discrimination
Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Summer Newsletter
The 2020 USPS Household Diary Study is out
A tour of the new USPS package sorting machine
Communities and Postal Workers United: Fall 2021 Newsletter
New book examines the attack on the people’s post office and the fight to defend it
Rachel Maddow on the potential demise of DeJoy
Postlandia’s 2022 Calendar of Post Offices and Places
“The Great Postal Heist” to be released on Jan. 25, 2022
A New Agenda for Postal Reform
Posts by a postmaster: Articles by Mark Jamison
