Category Archive

Updates on the USPS Service Performance Reports

SteveNovember 7, 2020Blog, Slideshow

All the daily and weekly reports, with links, highlights and analysis.

Lawsuits against DeJoy, USPS & Trump over mail delays and election mail

SteveNovember 6, 2020Blog, Slideshow

Twelve lawsuits have been filed against the USPS over mail delays and threats to voting by mail

DeJoy’s 57 Varieties of Cost Cutting: What’s in the new OIG report—and what’s not?

SteveOctober 26, 2020Blog, Slideshow

The Postal Service did not give Congress a complete picture of the Work Hour Reduction plan. Did it also fail to provide the OIG with some crucial details?

Are USPS transportation policies still causing mail delays?

SteveOctober 21, 2020Blog, Slideshow

The Postal Service is still putting restrictions on late and extra trips from processing centers, and the number of such trips is way below normal.

The Post Office in a Decent Society

SteveOctober 20, 2020Blog, Slideshow

“A civilized society is one whose members do not humiliate one another, while a decent society is one in which institutions do not humiliate people.”

A New Agenda for Postal Reform

SteveOctober 18, 2020Blog, Slideshow

The Postal Service is not just a business. Its purpose is to provide a service to the nation. It is “the people’s post office” — we own it, and it works for us. What could the post office do to better serve the country? Here’s an agenda.

Documentary Film Reveals How The United Postal Service Has Been Systematically Dismantled For Decades

SteveOctober 18, 2020Blog, Slideshow

12 years in the making . . . and made for the moment!

Do It Now: A Timeline of the Postal Service’s Work Hour Reduction Plan

SteveOctober 1, 2020Blog, Slideshow, Story

The timeline shows how the plan was shared inside the Postal Service while it was kept secret from everyone else.

Voting by mail and the next election meltdown

SteveSeptember 30, 2020Slideshow, Story

With control of the House and Senate at stake in next week’s midterms, any election that is close is likely to be contested.  Arcane postal matters, like USPS postmark policies and service standards, could take center stage in a bitter fight to the finish.

USPS service performance data for 2020 shows improvement but not back to baseline

SteveSeptember 16, 2020Blog, Slideshow

The data set provided in Jones v USPS provides the most complete picture of on-time performance that we’ve seen since the mail delays became an issue earlier this summer

The Seven-Percent Solution: The Not-So-Secret Plan to Downsize the Postal Service

SteveSeptember 14, 2020Blog, Slideshow

Has the Postal Service embarked on a plan to reduce labor costs by about 7 percent — about 67 million workhours, or the equivalent of about 33,000 jobs? Sure looks like it.

DeJoy’s Fix for the Post Office: The Wrong Time, the Wrong Plan, the Wrong Man

SteveAugust 29, 2020Blog, Jamison Articles, Slideshow

Mr. DeJoy must go and the current Board of Governors who oversaw these changes must stand down.

When a post office is not a post office: USPS celebrates 130th anniversary of the Bellville GA post office by closing it

SteveAugust 23, 2020Blog, Slideshow

Traveling through Georgia, rambling across the land / I passed the Bellville Depot and something said to me / Stop here son, there’s something you should see

Searching for America’s 1930s post office murals – a photo essay

SteveAugust 22, 2020Slideshow

Photographer Justin Hamel stumbled on a Great Depression-era mural one day in a New York post office, and was intrigued to learn there are 1,200 of them across the country.

Watchdog asks postal regulator to seek USPS data on mail delays

SteveAugust 21, 2020Blog, Slideshow

The data will offer more transparency into postal operations and show just how much the mail has been slowing down

Need proof changes at the USPS are slowing down the mail? Here you go

SteveAugust 18, 2020Blog, Slideshow

It’s not your imagination. The mail has clearly been slowing down since the beginning of July — dramatically.