Postmaster General Louis DeJoy described the Postal Service’s large-scale changes impacting package consolidators as necessary for his wide-ranging “Delivering for America” plan in an interview with Supply Chain Dive on Sunday.
“I’m not trying to take over the package business industry. I’m trying to just fill my trucks and fill my carrier bags, right?” DeJoy said. “And once I do that, and I’ve leaned out the whole place, we have potentially a chance of covering our costs and saving the Postal Service.”
Consolidators like DHL eCommerce and OSM Worldwide use the Postal Service for final-mile delivery of its customers’ packages. But two changes the Postal Service rolled out last year incentivized these companies to overhaul their longstanding business models in varying ways.