PRC rejects USPS effort to shut down public inquiry into Delivering for America
The Postal Regulatory Commission has denied the Postal Service’s Motion for Reconsideration of the order creating a Public Inquiry docket into the Delivering for America plan (Order No. 6548). The Commission has also issued its first information request about the plan. In its motion, the Postal Service had argued that ... Read More
Mid Hudson Letter carriers upset over shifts in post office delivery
Mid Hudson News: ROCK TAVERN – Postal workers gathered Friday at the Teamster’s Local 445 hall to discuss the future transfer of clerks and letter carriers to the Mid-Hudson Sorting and Delivery Center at the Stewart Airport Industrial Park in the Town of Newburgh. Clerks and letter carriers from 17 ... Read More
USPS mum on plan to merge rural mail delivery hubs in Snohomish County
Heraldnet: EVERETT, WA — Postal workers in Snohomish, Granite Falls and Marysville say they’ve been told their post offices will soon no longer serve as delivery hubs and will only offer retail services. Mail distribution would be run out of Everett, according to a source within the U.S. Postal Service’s ... Read More
Postal Service introduces RPDC Regions
The Postal Service has begun implementing a massive transformation of its processing and delivery network. The largest and strategically most important facilities in the new network will be the sixty Regional Processing and Distribution Centers. These RPDCs will have the capacity to handle all mail transported into and out of ... Read More
The future flow of the postal network: An inventory of potential RPDCs, LPCs, and S&DCs
The Postal Service has been trying to manage public perception of the network transformation now underway though flashy TV spots, a glossy Second-Year Progress Report, and DeJoy’s snazzy keynote address at the Postal Forum. The Postal Service has rebuffed efforts to learn more about the plan by the unions, management ... Read More
DeJoy rebuffs USPS regulator considering more ‘proactive’ role in postal oversight
USPS is falling short of some of its financial goals, as part of a broader vision for the agency to “break even” by 2030, as outlined in its 10-year Delivering for America Plan. But DeJoy, speaking Monday at the National Postal Forum in Charlotte, North Carolina, said USPS has cut ... Read More
Postal Service provides an implementation update on the S&DC plan
A couple of weeks ago, the Postal Service shared a presentation with the management associations and unions showing the implementation status of the Sorting & Delivery Center plan as of May 4, 2023. According to the presentation, 18 S&DCs will be launched in June and September of this year. With ... Read More
The Post Office Can Bring People-Centered Public Banking to Every ZIP Code
Inequality.org: The need for a public banking option is urgent. Nearly 10 million households, a disproportionate number of whom are people of color, are unbanked or underbanked in the United States. Unbanked or underbanked households must pay expensive fees for non-bank financial services to access their own money for paying bills, cashing ... Read More
Postal Service creates a dashboard on post office suspensions, but it’s not for the public
The USPS OIG has released a report about the Postal Service’s handling of post office suspensions, and in particular the problem of suspensions that don’t get resolved within a reasonable period of time. Among the IG’s findings is that the system used for tracking suspensions has “data reliability issues.” To ... Read More
Top Postal Regulator Calls for Expanded Reach Amid Feud With DeJoy
Government Executive: The U.S. Postal Service’s regulator requires more staff and resources to keep pace with the changes underway at the agency, the head of the oversight agency said on Monday, sharply contrasting his vision with that of the postmaster general. Louis DeJoy, the USPS CEO, has derided the Postal ... Read More
Postal Service announces plans to remove & relocate processing equipment
The Postal Service has informed the unions that it’s implementing a plan “to remove and/or relocate an undefined number” of sorting machines and other types of mail process equipment, starting in August 2023 and continuing into fiscal year 2024. The Postal Service is asking for volunteer maintenance personnel to perform ... Read More
The Postal Service launches new service performance dashboard
The Postal Service just launched its new service performance dashboard, a requirement of the Postal Reform Act. You can find it here. As specified by the Act, the dashboard contains weekly, monthly, and quarterly data, which can be disaggregated by type (First Class, Marketing, Single-piece, Pre-sort, etc.). One can search ... Read More
DeJoy says USPS regulator’s network consolidation probe puts financial targets in ‘jeopardy’
Federal News Network: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is telling lawmakers that the Postal Service, facing larger financial losses than expected this year, can still achieve its long-term financial goals — if its regulator and Congress don’t interfere with plans to overhaul its delivery network. “We need to move, and we ... Read More
PMG DeJoy trashes PRC at House hearing, says it “actively participated in the destruction” of the Postal Service
At today’s hearing of the Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) asked the Postmaster General some excellent questions about the Postal Service’s plan to consolidate carriers into Sorting and Delivery Centers. Lee observed that the plan “will certainly have major effects on local communities,” ... Read More
Morrison, Tenn., post office suspended over lease issue
Southern Standard: On Tuesday, the United States Postal Service announced the suspension of the Morrison Post Office as of May 20. Beginning May 22, Morrison postal consumers are encouraged to use the Manchester Post Office at 1601 Hillsboro Blvd. or Smartt Post Office at 5174 Manchester Hwy. in Smartt. Morrison ... Read More
Pay Cuts Have Rural Letter Carriers ‘Scared’ and ‘Outraged’
Government Executive: Thousands of letter carriers at the U.S. Postal Service are starting to see new schedules that have reduced their hours and cut their pay, causing significant anxiety within the workforce. The changes are part of a revamping of the pay structure for rural employees, a process that has ... Read More
Mailers defend the PRC’s public inquiry into Delivering for America
On April 20, the Postal Regulatory Commission opened a Public Inquiry docket to examine the Postal Service’s Delivering for America plan, particularly the initiative to relocate carriers from post offices to large Sorting & Delivery Centers. On May 5, the Postal Service filed a motion arguing that the PRC should ... Read More
The USPS is challenging the PRC’s authority to open a public inquiry on the DFA plan
The Postal Service has just filed a motion with the Postal Regulatory Commission challenging the Commission’s authority to open a public inquiry docket on the Delivering for America plan. “The Postal Service … respectfully requests that the Commission reconsider and withdraw Order No. 6488 [which opened the docket], as it ... Read More
A Thousand Post Office Suspensions in Review
By Steve Hutkins In February 2022 the Postal Regulatory Commission opened a Public Inquiry docket to address the issue of post offices that have been under emergency suspension for an extended period of time without being resolved by reopening them or closing them permanently. Such suspensions become de facto discontinuances ... Read More
Two-Thirds of Rural Mail Carriers Are Being Hit With A Massive Pay Cut Calculated By An Algorithm
Aaron Gordon, Vice: “It’s crazy to me,” a rural carrier in Maryland who asked to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation told Motherboard. His annual salary was slashed by $9,000 and he has to work an extra day for every two-week pay period. “I’ll be working more and making less all ... Read More
