Nearly all S&DCs utilize excess space in post offices and processing centers, but the USPS is also leasing large warehouses for S&DCs.
The OIG’s Oversight of the U.S. Postal Service’s Delivering for America Plan
USPS OIG: The Delivering For America: Our Vision and Ten-Year Plan to Achieve Financial Sustainability and Service Excellence (DFA plan), released in March 2021, outlines the U.S. Postal Service’s 10-year strategy to transform into a high-performing, financially sustainable organization. With the release of Delivering For America 2.0: Fulfilling the Promise in September 2024, the Postal Service provided a blueprint for its path forward. We, … Read More
Route Scheduling at Sorting and Delivery Centers
The USPS OIG has published a new audit report assessing route consolidation and associated costs at the S&DCs. Background As part of its $40 billion investment under the Delivering for America (DFA) plan, the U.S. Postal Service is transforming its infrastructure, including consolidating local delivery and sorting operations into centrally located sorting and delivery centers (S&DC). To determine if relocating … Read More
The disappearing art gallery in your post office
Washington Post: The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed. To lift the United States out of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt put Americans to work building roads and bridges, conserving forests and rivers, laying sewer pipes, and constructing schools, parks and … Read More
