Members of the Postal Service’s regulatory agency are calling on Congress to strengthen their oversight of USPS, citing declines in on-time mail delivery and its persistent financial challenges.
A bipartisan group of senators is embracing those calls for greater USPS oversight, and leading a bill that would require the agency to seek approval from its regulator before continuing network modernization plans that have led to regional mail delays.
Two commissioners at the Postal Regulatory Commission, up for another six-year term to oversee USPS, are raising concerns about USPS setting higher prices for its monopoly mail products and significant declines in on-time delivery.
USPS has seen persistent mail delays in areas where it has begun consolidating mail processing facilities into large, regional hubs. This network shakeup is a key part of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year Delivering for America (DFA) reform plan.