A national mail advocacy group says the U.S. Postal Service’s deepening losses should be a wake-up call for new Postmaster General David Steiner to scrap his predecessor’s approach and chart a new course.
Keep US Posted — a coalition of consumers, businesses, and nonprofit organizations — responded to the Postal Service’s announcement of a $3.1 billion loss for the third quarter, bringing the year-to-date deficit to $6.2 billion. That’s $114 million more than the same point last year.
The group urged Steiner to reject former Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s “Delivering for America” plan, which includes twice-a-year postage hikes, slower delivery standards, and a heavier focus on package delivery over traditional mail.
“Today’s financial results … provide even more proof that new Postmaster General David Steiner needs to lead the U.S. Postal Service away from DeJoy’s ‘tax and spend’ strategy,” said Keep US Posted executive director Kevin Yoder. “Steiner should … pursue his own strategy to help USPS recover so that it can keep delivering to every American six-days per week.”
They keep focusing on parcel business and keep losing money. Raise prices on Amazon parcels please. BTW Amazon will always threaten to take away parcel business if they Don’t get some sweet deal. Stop playing golf with Amazon executives and raise prices
What other plan can the new PMG come up with? The die has been cast and its DFA coupled with the “cut costs and increase revenue “ model. These people are primarily interested in themselves and what they have to pay for mailings. Saturday delivery of letters needs to go, and quickly.