A chart showing the volume of Standard Mail scheduled for delivery on Mondays compared to the rest of the week — before implementation of load leveling. Click on the image for a larger version.
Effective Thursday, April 10, USPS is revising Destination Sectional Center Facility (DSCF) Standard Mail service standards, which allows “load leveling” of mail volumes across delivery days.
Implementation of load leveling means that DSCF Standard Mail, when accepted on Fridays and Saturdays, will have a delivery expectation of up to 4 days.
With this change, delivery volume will be more evenly balanced across the workweek, with the following benefits:
- Leveling the disproportionate amount of mail now delivered Mondays to other days of the week will help even carriers’ workload and improve their return times.
- Load leveling will improve processing efficiency and reduce operating costs.
- Customers — those sending the mail and those receiving it — will receive more consistent delivery across the workweek. This higher level of reliability will lead to an improved customer experience.
This change will not affect service standards for First-Class Mail or Periodicals. USPS is not proposing any other changes in its service standards at this time.
The Federal Register has more information on the changes in its March 5 and March 14 editions. Operations also will distribute standard operating procedures and support materials.
this makes sense but why did it take until now to implement?; Mondays have been heavier than the rest of the week in general for as long as I can remember!
What I find incredibly ridiculous, is the fact that they needed to get a group together and “study and evaluate” what quite clearly is pure common sense!!!
Corruption at its finest, because I rarely have ANY first class mail and all my customers ask me to NOT deliver all the coupons, catalogs, and cable offers….if only I could oblige, but you are right “unreal” we wouldn’t have a job. However, and this is a huge “However” we need to save the establishment as a whole. We clearly do NOT NEED 6 day delivery of coupons and catalogs!!!! Offer the early out for carriers and get rid of the high pays. I would be the first out the door….
we were the test district for load leveling and have been on it for 6 weeks. Its wonderful! Zero OT even with circs. Its about time!! No more undertime except on Saturdays from Buss. closed. The smartest move from the PO yet!!
Agreed, but if we deliver it at a loss, it does us no good. I know bulk pays the bills, but our checks we get from the USPS depend on its making money on the product we deliver, not lose money. It’s still worthless in my opinion, but like telemarketers, obnoxious car and furniture commercials on TV and other annoying invasive crap into our homes, it’s here to stay. We just need to charge the mailers enough to at least cover costs, and we can’t even manage to do that!
You might call it “worthless bulk mail” I call it BREAD AND BUTTER.
If you did not have Bulk Mail the carrier craft would be cut by a
fourth. We do not need to loose jobs.
Tuesday is the new Monday
Do away with bulk and you can make a huge profit like a private business would do if and when it takes over. Could also eliminate 6 day delivery with parcels being delivered on Sundays as it is being done now.
Management ? Rhere is stinkin’ management. Stupid is as stupid does
Price discounts and premiums relative to route evaluation capacity and relative time of arrival at the delivery unit. Service standards could not only be maintained but potentially improved because the cost of overtime or relief would be priced into the extra volume. Instead of fighting futilely against measuring technology, work with the capability it offers.
Work in plant. Monday morning dispatch was 129k for the two zips I run. Tuesday 47k. Wednesday 61k (advanced Thursday mail to try to get ahead of the Monday deluge).
there is almost no first class mail to worry about…we can not continue 6 day service for so little mail
It is a bit ridiculous to be hammered on Monday and then sometimes getting only two thirds as much on Tuesday. It’s all bulk rate and closed business mail on Mondays that cause carriers to run late, and while we can’t do anything about business mail, stretching out worthless bulk mail over the week would help. So would raising the rates for crap nobody wants, but try telling that to the Service, who gives such moronic discounts to the bulk mailers that they lose money delivering it.
From a pure business stance, it’s incredibly stupid. What is the point of delivering something that makes the Service lose money? Sure, it’s business, but to do so at a loss means one of two things: stupidity or corruption. I refuse to believe that every manager in the system is a blithering idiot. We tend to think in those terms and that clouds the view that the higher level management is in a bribery scam of untold proportions, getting kickbacks in return for low rates, with no concern for what happens to the Service at large as their private bank accounts grow.
Because the only agencies that oversee the Postal Service are hired by the Service, one must be very naive and dense to think the GAO or Postal Inspection Service would ever try to uncover the misappropriation of money. We pond scum craft people refer to “misappropriation” as embezzling and theft.
Only pressure from the public, media and the formation of a truly independent agency that is not connected to the Service and investigates the abuses will change the way the USPS does business. But just like everything else in Washington, what we the people think is the last thing on their minds.