Transportation has emerged as one of the Postal Service’s biggest areas of transformation and improvement under the Delivering for America plan, The Eagle magazine reports in its winter issue.
The cover story explores the organization’s shift to a fully integrated network with mail and packages traveling together, significantly reducing truck trips and giving a major boost to efficiency and productivity.
Crucial to the logistics network now being built is a simpler hub-and-spoke strategy that relies on far fewer originating processing facilities — around 60 regional processing and distribution centers when the network transformation is fully implemented.
Other topics include the Postal Service’s emphasis on career development, and the positive effect of converting 190,000 employees to career status.
The issue also looks at Direct Effect, a USPS initiative to teach marketing students in college how to harness the power of mail.
The Postal Service mailed The Eagle to employees’ homes in January. It is also available on Newsroom, the USPS online news hub.
