WASHINGTON, March 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The nation’s business mailing and shipping community believes the collaboration between the Postal Service and DoGE offers the prospect of finding more efficiencies and accountability at USPS. The Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service (C21) represents a broad cross-section of the $1.9 trillion mailing and shipping, and its supply chain, industry which employs nearly 8 million nationwide. We stand ready to discuss with DoGE, USPS, all other stakeholders and Congress what changes should be made. The private sector can provide additional solutions to help bring down the cost for American consumers and businesses.
For the past four years under the Delivering for America Plan (DFA), regrettably the Postal Service has slowed service generally punctuated by very serious snafus in introducing new facilities, raised prices enormously, and experienced eye-watering losses. Unsurprisingly, its customer usage has shrunk very substantially (>12%) since 2020. It is time to call a halt to this very expensive plan that is just not working.
Service must be turned around. The “efficiencies” in service found to date have simply meant slowing the standards the Postal Service sets for itself, and then failing to meet those standards. Pricing must change. Twice-a-year increases that raised prices some 40% in less than three years, with another 7-10% and more coming in July, are simply incompatible with a healthy system or what any private sector company would do. July’s price increase must be halted.
With the Postmaster General, and architect of DFA, having announced his retirement, the time is propitious to discuss broadly how to stabilize USPS and put it on a healthy course. DoGE can play a key role in this redirection by finding efficiencies in USPS’ vast, complex network and identifying any waste, fraud or abuse of that could be cut out to help USPS recover and provide its still invaluable services well into the future.
C21 consists of business mailing and shipping associations and companies – newspapers, magazines, advertisers, catalogers, e-commerce, parcels, greeting cards, financial services, telecommunications, insurance, small businesses of every kind, paper, printing, technology, envelope manufacturing, mail services, who understand the essential role of USPS and want it sustained for the future. It broadly represents an industry generating $1,9 trillion in sales and supporting nearly 8 million private sector jobs nationwide.
