Cable said he was told in an email from a U.S. Postal Service contracting officer that the closure is not performance-based and that other post offices in the area can fully serve this community.
On July 1, 1963, the United States Postal Service (USPS) introduces the Zone Improvement Plan as part of a plan to improve the speed of mail delivery, inaugurating the use of machine-readable ZIP codes to facilitate the efficient sorting of mail at a national level.
DeJoy lost sight of this. He, like the others with grand designs for the post office’s future, sees an agency that does everything from selling office products to banking and lending, regardless of cost, capability, or the reality that someone else is already doing it better.
The U.S. Postal Service shipped fewer packages and letters by air and reduced spending by 43% in the first three months after UPS took over a primary air cargo contract from FedEx
The U.S. Postal Service will implement the next phase in its service standard refinements on July 1, part of the organization’s ongoing efforts to better serve customers nationwide.