The dispute between the Postal Regulatory Commission and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over his Delivering for America restructuring plan has escalated after the PRC released an advisory opinion saying the plan “is irreversibly changing its network without laying a foundation for success.”
“The Commission urges the Postal Service to reconsider whether the speculative, meager gains from this proposal outweigh the certain downgrade in service for a significant portion of the nation,” it said, citing service complaints that have continued since the first implementation steps in 2021.
Those include, it said, the potential for downgrading First Class delivery to half of Zip codes, a disproportionate impact on mailing from one rural Zip code to another and “significant downgrades” in periodicals and packages services.
