Since 1998 the USPS has provided a no-fee post office box (called Group E) to customers who do not receive any form of carrier delivery. Residents of Buena Vista CO don't get home delivery, but they've been paying a box fee for the past 25 years. The fee will soon double to $134.
Residents of this Colorado town have no choice but to pay for a post office box. No home delivery. They’re not very happy, @ShannonNajma writes today … “A joke.” “TERRIBLE.” “Insane!!!”: Want mail in Buena Vista? That will be $134. https://coloradosun.com/2022/06/20/usps-buena-vista-mail/
The post office in Arnold, MO may be moved to new location. The USPS says it will not hold the required public meeting due to Covid. Four days ago, the PMG attended a ceremony to celebrate the Katharine Graham stamp. Indoors, no masks, no issues. https://www.myleaderpaper.com/news/arnold-post-office-may-move-to-new-location/article_24e496f0-ece9-11ec-a624-97184ddc10ff.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share
The post office in Coram, MT (near Glacier National Park) was set to close at the end of the June, but a petition drive and letters by Senator Jon Tester and Steve Daines may succeed in keeping it open.
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A ray of hope for the post office in Coram
Things are looking up for the post office in Coram.
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The USPS has introduced a new dashboard that tracks the results of the Customer Experience Satisfaction survey (down to the facility level), but it's only for employees and not available to the public.
https://link.usps.com/2022/06/17/service-snapshot/
It is physically impossible to exceed the 70-pound domestic weight limit for a small flat rate box.
The interior dimensions (8 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 1 5/8") are ~75.333 in^3.
If you filled the box with pure osmium, the densest substance known to man, it would weigh ~61.48 lbs.
USPS seeks comments on the relocation of Albany’s Academy Station Post Office, but no public meeting will be held due to Covid. OTOH, the PMG has been holding swearing-in events for new postmasters, in public, no masks. https://www.wamc.org/capital-region-news/2022-06-10/unclear-future-for-albanys-academy-station-post-office-as-public-comments-are-sought
Here's the USPS's Federal Register notice about the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the next-gen fleet. It says changes to the delivery network warrant an increase in the minimum number of electric vehicles. Comments are due by July 25. https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2022-12581
The PRC's order discusses a 2014 case in which Mark Jamison filed a petition to see the Amazon contract (this one really was an Amazon contract). There's more about that here:

Premature motion: PRC dismisses bid to view non-public Amazon docs
MARK JAMISON Almost three months ago, I filed a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission seeking access to docu...
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It could be that the contract doesn't say anything about giving Amazon preference, or, more likely, that this isn't an Amazon contract at all. The PRC suggests the unions work with the USPS to identify the correct docket and work out the details for maintaining confidentiality .

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

Reply to the USPS: How the new service standards will cause geographic discrimination
New Dashboard tracks emergency suspensions

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

Suspension date: 6/27/2007
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 6/14/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 7/24/2021
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 5/9/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
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: 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

Suspension date: 6/27/2007
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 6/14/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 7/24/2021
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 5/9/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Counting Up 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
