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The Postal Service submits a Request for an Advisory Opinion on POStPlan: How changing the rules changed everything
Today the Postal Service asked the Postal Regulatory Commission for an Advisory Opinion on POStPlan, the initiative to review about 13,000 post offices for discontinuance or reduced hours. The Request is here. Along with the Request is testimony from Jeffrey C. Day, Manager, Retail Operations, in the Office of Delivery and Post Office Operations at the Postal Service. Day’s testimony … Read More
Occupy the Post Office: Ten arrested in Oregon
Ten arrested in Occupy action at University Station post office Portland, OR – Police arrested ten members of labor unions, faith groups, neighborhood organizations, and Occupy Portland who refused to leave the University Station post office at closing time this evening. Unfurling two ten foot banners, reading “Occupy the Post Office” and “No Closures! No Cuts!” the protesters blocked the closure of … Read More
How the West was won: The PMG’s trip to Montana
In April of this year, as the moratorium on post office closings was coming to an end and thousands of communities were anxiously awaiting the verdict on their post office, the Postmaster General took some time out of his busy schedule to fly to Montana, just to talk with a few regular folks about the closings. The motive for the … Read More
Network Consolidation: New plan, same old story
On Monday the Postal Service will make the changes in service standards official by publishing the Final Rule in the Federal Register. As we’ve been told since September, delivery of First-Class mail and periodicals will be slowing down — but not as soon as initially planned. [UPDATE: The Final Rule was not published until later in the week. An Advance … Read More
Final Rule to Revise USPS Service Standards
[from a USPS Industry Alert] Today the Postal Service sent the final rule to revise service standards for market-dominant mail products to the Federal Register. The final rule will be posted on our “Information for Mailers” webpage at http://about.usps.com/news/facility-studies/welcome.htm by COB Monday, May 21. Highlights excerpted from the final rule are provided below. Highlights The Postal Service is adopting new rules for market-dominant … Read More
Revised Network Rationalization: Map & user-friendly list
Yesterday the Postal Service released a revision of its Network Rationalization plan to consolidate over two hundred mail processing facilities. When the plan was originally announced on December 5, there were 252 facilities on the list. After the AMP (Area Mail Processing) studies were completed, a new list was released on Feb. 27, with 223 facilities approved for consolidation. The … Read More
What are people — and the Post Office — for?
BY MARK JAMISON It’s likely that I will be the last postmaster to serve the town of Webster, North Carolina. The first postmaster, Allen Fisher, began his term in 1857, shortly after Jackson County was founded and Webster became the county seat. The names of the postmasters that follow read like a county census. In a rural mountain county that … Read More
POStPlan: Map, Charts, & More
On May 9, the Postal Service released POStPlan, its new plan for small rural post offices. The plan will impact 13,000 post offices. Over the coming months, the Postal Service will begin holding community meetings to discuss the options: replace the post office with a "village post office" (a postal counter in a private business), close the post office and switch … Read More
POStPlan Map
This map shows the 12,983 post offices that are on the Postal Service’s list for reduced hours under the POStPlan. Click on a marker for more details. Red = 2 hours of operation; Yellow = 4 hours; Blue = 6 hours When it released the list, the Postal Service provided only zip codes, not street addresses, so the markers do … Read More
POStPlan by the numbers
The Postal Service's POStPlan initiative announced on May 9, 2012, would reduce hours at 13,000 post offices from eight hours a day to six, four, and in some cases, two. Here's how the list provided by the Postal Service breaks down. (An overview of the plan is here.) The plan would reduce the total number of operating hours per day at … Read More
Ralph Nader Calls New Postal Service Plan a “Bait and Switch” Tactic, Not Good News for Rural Post Offices
[Press release] Consumer advocate Ralph Nader said today, “The Postmaster General’s Post Office Structure Plan (“POSt Plan”) is a bait and switch tactic, and it is not good news for rural Post Offices or their customers.” The Postmaster General claims that his new strategy, released on Wednesday, is designed to benefit rural Americans and keep open the 3,652 postal facilities … Read More
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse: The Postal Service has a new plan for the post office
After a year and a half spent threatening to close thousands of rural post offices, the Postal Service has suddenly changed course. Instead of closing small post offices, the Postal Service has come up with a way to make them irrelevant. The Postal Service’s new plan — awkwardly named "Post Office Structure Plan," or POStPlan — will reduce the hours … Read More
Avalanche averted: Postal Service backs off plan to close thousands of post offices
The Postal Service has decided not to announce mass post office closures on May 16, when the moratorium ends, and it will instead proceed with the closings in a more gradual way. How many, how slowly, remains to be seen. In the meantime, the Postal Service has a new plan. Some of the details were revealed to postmasters in a … Read More
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