US Postal Deliveries Continue to Disappoint

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) bleeds money, its delivery time for First-Class mail continues to disappoint. The public cannot say it was not warned. Last year, the USPS reported that First-Class delivery times would change from a range of one to three days to a range of one to five days.

Among the comments made before the new range went into effect was, “The Postal Service further notes that it has been unable to achieve its service performance targets for many years, and that these service failures illustrate the weakness of the current transportation model.” In other words, First-Class delivery has been a wreck, unrepaired, for some time.

The USPS just issued its data on delivery times for the fourth week of its fourth quarter. This covers the period from July 22 to July 29. The average time to deliver a mail piece or package was 2.4 days. It is one of the goals of the USPS’s 10-year plan to have delivery goals that are 95% of the benchmark. Ten years is not only a long time, but also a long time for an organization as troubled as the USPS.

The USPS soon will issue its financial figures for its most recent fiscal year. No one who watches this should hope that the numbers will improve from recent quarters. In the first quarter of the calendar year, the USPS lost $648 million on revenue of $19.8 billion. No plan has been put forth that will reasonably improve that. Without question, the problem the USPS has is that its expense and its employee bases are too high.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/us-postal-deliveries-continue-to-disappoint/ar-AA10rdu6

Louis DeJoy, another Trump fuckup we're stuck with.

[TigressDem]

1. Lose DeJoy to make the USPS better.

It's like having a janitor with IBS cleaning the hallway as he spews from the rear making a mess as he goes.

The man is a nightmare.

[XanaDUer2]

2. 14 days

Send registered letter 250 miles away. Has fucked me over. I'm pissed

[spanone]

3. That appears to be dejoys mission. Run the USPS into the ground so everyone hates it.

[llashram]

4. dejoy

has devastated postal worker morale. Remember the sorting machines? That really hurt. And internally, the postal workers I know all say the same thing. Postal workers are doing their very best with a very toxic top tier of supervisors etc. So I know if dejoy hadn't gone about trumps business of trying to destroy the Postal Service, the package end was ALWAYS in the black and helping the bottom line greatly.

[Chainfire]

5. If it were only run by private business....

[Midnight Writer]

6. The Postal Service pays billions into the Federal Treasury every year in "Revenue Foregone".

These are services mandated by law that the Postal Service provides at a monetary loss.

The Federal Government is supposed to reimburse the Postal Service for these costs, but every year Congress votes not to.

Thus, the revenue is foregone.

Examples are franked mail, vastly reduced mail rates for non-profit groups, Free Matter for The Blind , library rates, book rates, periodical rates, military rates. All these services are provided by the Postal Service at a loss, which under law, the Federal Government is supposed to pay.

Its "employee bases are too high"? USPS employees get paid less than most private delivery services, such as UPS. Government employees being grossly overpaid and underworked is a Right Wing talking point. They use it against teachers, IRS, cops, clerks, and whatever other Federal Agency you can name. It is seldom true.

Incidentally, the Postal Service does not get any of your tax dollars. They are a fee-based service.

[Brenda]

14. Exactly, plus...

If anyone killed the mail service it's Amazon. Especially during the pandemic when people stopped shopping in person and had everything from pet food to beer delivered to their homes with much of coming through the USPS.

My long time mail carrier quit after 15 years (not retired) because she said she signed up to deliver letters not 40 lb boxes of dog food.

[MOMFUDSKI]

7. The de-no-joy guy is a huge annoyance

but my personal experience of late was GREAT. Shipped 13 boxes from Milwaukee to St. Petersburg and they all arrived a day EARLY. Some were prepaid so weight doesn't matter and some were bigger boxes purchased from Home Depot. Just sayin'

[Bev54]

8. Isn't today the day that the new board member is supposed to start?

[former9thward]

11. The new members were confirmed in May.

There have been two meetings which the new members participated in since then. They have a meeting today.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. I either send payments out the same day

I get a statement. Or I look at the return address, add an extra day for Sunday, and sometimes drive one payment to the distribution mail center to subtract a day for delivery.

[Novara]

10. Do you guys know about Informed Delivery?

You can sign up and get an email each day you have mail. They scan all mail items and they send you a picture of each item. There's also a website and app so that if you don't get an item, you can check a box to tell them that it didn't arrive.

You can sign up here: https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action

Since mail has been so shitty I've signed up to know when I'm supposed to be getting what.

My father (former Postmaster) is spinning in his grave.

[questionseverything]

12. So they don't have enough time/people to deliver the mail quickly

But they have enough time/people to open my mail, scan it and email it to me?

Wtf

[Novara]

13. No, no, no, they don't open it.

The mail scanning machines they use to know where to deliver your mail also take a photo of the envelopes as they are scanned. So if you sign up for Informed Delivery, they will send you a daily email of those scans. If you have mail that day, you get the email. If none of your mail was sorted for that day, you don't get an email.

[questionseverything]

15. So just the envelope? Ty

But it’s still big brother creepy that the post office keeps track of what mail we all get

[Novara]

16. Well, part of sorting means they scan the envelopes.

I like it. I like getting the email so I know what to expect.

This is funny - there's some sort of postcard DeJoy sends for some postal promotion and although I get the email that says it should arrive that day, I never get it. I wonder if my mail carrier hates DeJoy as much as I do!