The Postal Regulatory Commission is independent entity in the executive branch of the federal government with responsibility for analyzing the rates and fees charged by the U.S. Postal Service for its products and services, ensuring its service standards are met, and its universal service obligations fulfilled. The Commission was created by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA) and was formerly called the Postal Rate Commission.
This is a Request for Proposal from organizations and individuals to assist the Postal Regulatory Commission staff in developing a Report on the impact on Postal Service costs and contribution of discontinuing the street delivery of letters and flats on Saturdays, while maintaining the delivery of parcels on Saturdays.
The methodologies should be able to answer the following questions:
Question 1
To what extent will discontinuing Saturday delivery of letters and flat mail impact the unit costs and service performance of parcel mail delivered on Saturday?
Question 2
To what extent will discontinuing Saturday delivery of letter and flat mail reduce the unit costs and slow the service performance of that mail?
Question 3
To what extent will discontinuing Saturday delivery of letters and flat mail affect the ability of the Postal Service to match capacity to workload (change volume variability) by shape in the short run and the long run? Specifically, how will the changes in the timing of workload affect costs associated with maintaining sufficient capacity to handle the peak load?
Question 4
How will this analysis be altered by pending consolidations and service standard changes from Network Rationalization including the space available for temporary mail storage, by recent complement staff reductions from buy-out programs, and by additional flexibility provided for in recently-negotiated collective bargaining agreements?
via Impact of Discontinuance of Saturday Mail Delivery – Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities.
does anyone know if we are going to 5 day delivery of mail in Aug. Post master general said we were and I have not heard another word from him since??????????????
Just wish we would know if its gonna Happen or Not??????!!!!
I’m all for it!!!
Lol for all y’all think that y’all would have Saturday and Sunday off
The senior people will have Saturday and Sunday off . Here’s the thing they not telling y’all the majority of carriers will have split days. They will not have parcel post working 6 days. They will split it up where a parcel post person will also only work 5 days Every carrier has a drivers licsense and every carrier will drive on a Saturday Your days off may be Sunday and Tuesday Lol Y’all should think how they think instead of thinking weekends off
Mikey, Yes, sad but true by your investigations that there are people who would take advantage of the system while real injuries are hard to prove. Don’t agree with the 3 day week, though. Hope you are enjoying your hard earned retirement.
Residential delivery needs to be no more than 3 days each week!
30 year vet — I had 38 years when I retired at age 55, 10 years ago. I investigated WC and can feel sorry for the few real WC claimants. They get less than deserved and go through hoops as at least, at a minimum, 65% of ongoing WC claims are fraud. At least 40% of initial claims are fraud.
All the NALC cares about is the $23.44 each pay check. If the USPS cuts 30,000 carrier positons it will cost the union $703200.00 each pay check. Thats 8.5 million dollars a year. That means less people the union can have on their roles. They might actually have to go back to there regular position and do some real work. Cut Saturday so this company can get back to growing. For those who say, this is not the right way to do it, we cant keep going the way we are. Loosing Billions of dollars a year isn’t the right path. Need change and this is a start. I want to be able to retire and get my check for the rest of my life without fear of it being gone. Not so that the union can send people all over the country on our dime for nothing…
The jobs at the Postal Service are very physical. Of course people get injured, but to state that half of the workers are trying to get disability and it is basically a welfare job is insulting to all the people working hard, sacrificing to support their families and raise their children. Not everybody is a crook.
No sat delivery who cares? Half the postal workers are trying to get disability anyway, so cutting delivery to 5 days will give them 1 less day to fake an injury.Face facts the Postal service is basically a welfare job.
Hey 204b Wannabe, Do you realize your job is on the line? With Saturday delivery service cut, what do you think is going to happen? The phone calls are going to increase, not decrease. It cracks me up that employed people at the ‘ol USPS using online bill pays instead of using the stamp. You are affecting your own job. Wake up and smell the coffee….
The real answer to all 4 questions is the USPS has no idea what the answers are.
The NALC is doing all it can to save jobs, but can only do so much. The older general public do not want Saturday delivery cut, but feel helpless to do anything about it. Yes, we workers would all love to have two days off in a row versus split days, but what will it cost us in the long run? Cheaper labor, more pressure for street time, more inquiries into our delivery scans…..not sure it is worth it. I’m already questioned every day by micromanaging supervisors and a Postmaster who has a hidden agenda who claims they have the carriers backs, but do absolutely nothing that they say they are going to do. As long as they look good…..
These snapshots from across the country echo the office I work in. (29 years in Nov.) The only ones who don’t see the benefits of 5 day delivery are the union watchdogs and lately they are even losing their bite.
* has to go bye bye…No need.
Saturday delivery of mail has to go!
These questions coming from the same folks who advocate cutting service instead of improving it ! No secret why the USPS could never become a corporation ! ! SERVICE is the secret to success ! ! !
Whatever day street delivery is eliminated will not be missed by 99.9% of the American public. First class mail serves no timely purpose in business or individual communication. Most check are direct deposit. Business general concept concept is to go paperless. The demand for postal services has declined but the USPS has not reduced services resulting in wasted dollar cost. Efforts should to directed to increase parcel and shipping as this is only areas that had an increase in revenue. Bulk mail delivery is high distribution cost and low revenue generation.
I save money and will put on buying the share stocks of the Private sector running Post Office.
Todd is right about the impact on Tue after a holiday, but that only happens a few times a year. As for Bigtruckerman the PO will have a lower paid worker doing all the Sat deliveries. Almost all Rural Carriers have Sat off now and that will not change. There will by a big lose of personnel such as Rural Carrier Subs will be cut.
Who, might I ask, would be in their right mind and want to get into supervision? Don’t you know your ass will be the first to go if you get a full time supervision job? Do you really want a career that involves ass kissing, ratting out people you used to work with and becoming a first class snitch who can’t be trusted? Do you want the job insecurity you’ll get especially with all the pressure for the USPS to trim its management ranks?
How about long hours and having your POOM and PM yell and scream at you and treat you like dog shit? Is the few extra bucks worth it to you? I hope you don’t think it’s the way to getting respect, because some stuff can’t be bought. Unless you’re like a few supervisors I know who knew and blew the right people and had relatives in high places to put them in positions they absolutely do not belong in, and proceeded to royally fuck up their offices because like other managers, they got there through dirty dealings and back stabbing, not ability. Those who can do good work have to be on the craft side or your ass would be history. Without clerks, mail handlers and city and rural carriers to do their work, you’re sunk, and in terms of productivity and usefulness, you’re about as worthless as they get. That’s 204-B and supervisor world.
CUT SAT I NEED TWO DAYS OFF IN A Row
Hey 204b go back to sleep or go follow some carriers and tell them to speed up!!!
Cut!! Saturday cut ALL T6’s cut, cut, cut,.This will save all us 204’B WE ARE THE ONES WHO ANSWER THE PHONE!!!
Well our rural carrier would be very happy to drive 84 miles to deliver one or two package on Saturday and get paid the same for it!!!
CUT SATURDAY. ..ITS long overdue.
The Slug streams his Netflix as do many people,soon no one will even use a DVD player so the mail will not matter. People will adjust very quickly to no mail on the weekends. Plus “THE SLUG can get bombed and not have to call in sick on Sat. I think the peenysaver is not vital to post office in fact saturation deliveries CAUSE expansion of street time 3rd class cost more to deliver. The Junk can wait till monday no one will care
I can’t wait till 8/5/2013 Sincerley “THE SLUG”!!!
Donahoe doesn’t care what the numbers show. He’s Darrell Issa’s butt buddy.