The future of the Postal Service depends on packages, according to its Postmaster General Louis DeJoy — a lot of them.
A key tenet of his 10-year Delivering for America Plan, now in its third year, is to capture a bigger piece of the package business from private-sector companies like UPS, FedEx and Amazon.
Pouring over presentation slides in a conference room at USPS headquarters, DeJoy goes into detail about the investments USPS is making to exponentially increase its capacity to process and ship packages.
It’s a safe bet, DeJoy says, since USPS goes where its competitors don’t — to more than 165 million addresses, at least six days a week. Letter carriers are going there anyway, so why not fill the empty space on their trucks with packages that will help the agency pay its bills?
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