The agency’s efforts to boost transparency include using Bluetooth devices to identify bottlenecks for high-value shippers, a spokesperson said.
- The U.S. Postal Service is working to enable end-to-end visibility into every parcel flowing through its network to mitigate delivery delays, Postmaster General David Steiner said during a Senate committee hearing last week.
- Limited visibility leads to cases in which a wedding invitation gets delivered after the wedding date, or a bill arrives after its due date, according to Steiner. Improving visibility will allow the agency to notify plant managers when parcels at their location are delayed so they can address the issue, he added.
- “I would rather have 100% of the mail delivered within a reasonable period of time than saying, ‘Let’s just have 95% delivered in a certain period of time, the other 5% we don’t care,’” Steiner said at the hearing in front of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
He does know that we also deliver letter mail as well as flats.
We don’t only have parcels like the other delivery companies.
That is where the problem lies.
Parcels are easy. Mail, and mainly money losing bulk mail
is time consuming and labor consuming.
Does this idiot even know what we do????
Steiner needs to fix what’s broken, and it’s a lot. The general public knows the USPS can no longer be relied upon to deliver much of anything in a timely manner. Routes are not even going out on many days , and others are told to be back at an arbitrary time . They’re instructed to cut the mail and just deliver parcels. They’ll scan stuff business closed, no access, or any number of phony scans to stop the clock. It’s a shame how poor service has become. The quarter is over and it’s going to be interesting to see how the numbers are. They’ve cut overtime, but at the cost of undelivered mail, undoubtedly to get their bonuses. It’s likely to be bad, because volume continues to fall. It’s possible to get it back, but not with this crowd running the place.