It sounds like the U.S. Postal Service has some undemocratic sorting equipment. Or maybe the machinery is just old. Either way, more than 8,000 San Francisco ballot packages were damaged by postal equipment as they were being processed for mailing, the city’s Department of Elections said Friday. So far, the postal service has returned 5,456 damaged […]
USPS OIG: Lack of Service Standard Change Information in Area Mail Processing Feasibility Studies On June 30, 2014, the postmaster general announced the U.S. Postal Service’s plans to implement Phase 2 of the Network Rationalization Initiatives (NRI) by consolidating up to 82 facilities starting in January 2015. Specifically, the Postal Service completed Area Mail Processing […]
September 20, 2014 FLORENCE, S.C. – People of different walks of life, bonded by one issue gathered in front of post office in Florence Saturday morning to protest the departure of the postal service’s processing facility. “It’s a variety of trying to help save jobs and service, good service and social responsibility. It’s all in […]
An overview of the new 24-hour mail processing plan. Key Principles There IS an overnight delivery standard for commercial mail There IS NOT an overnight delivery standard for Single Piece First Class Mail (SPFCM) There is an overnight delivery performance for both commercial mail and single piece first class mail Anticipate that […]
MINOT, N.D. – Senator John Hoeven today spoke with Drew Aliperto, United States Postal Service (USPS) vice president of area operations for the western area, to press for the continued operation of the Minot Area Mail Processing facility. In 2011, the USPS began studying more than 250 mail processing facilities nationwide for possible consolidation or […]
National Association of Postal Supervisors Statement on the Postal Service’s Plan to Close Eighty-Two Processing Facilities The Postal Service on June 30 announced a major restructuring of its mail processing network with the closure of eighty-two (82) processing facilities throughout the country beginning in January, 2015. NAPS opposes the Postal Service’s plan because it will […]
BOISE — The holiday season is the peak season at the United State Postal Service, but have you seen what goes into getting the mail out? On Tuesday night, KTVB was allowed into the postal processing facility on South Cole Road in Boise. This is the first time in more than a decade that a […]
Postal Service could realize more than 14.3 million workhour savings and avoid costs of over $628 million over 4 years. The following are excerpts from The Office Of Inspector General’s report on Assessment of Overall Plant Efficiency 2013 This report presents a follow up on the U.S. Postal Service’s progress in reducing workhours based on […]
Take The Bullard Banner News in Texas. After the nearest USPS plant closed in June, the weekly paper’s route to local mailboxes now detours through a plant 120 miles away. One subscriber reported getting no paper for weeks—then three in a day. “I can’t begin to count how many have said ‘if you can’t fix […]
Deteriorating financial conditions and declining mail volume have reinforced the need for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to increase operational efficiency and reduce expenses in its mail processing network. This network consists of interdependent functions in nearly 600 facilities. USPS developed several initiatives to reduce costs and increase efficiency; however, moving forward on some initiatives […]