Patrick Donahoe, the 73rd Postmaster General of the United States, is taking control of an organization in fiscal crisis.
Pre-funding of health benefits is a widely acknowledged financial burden on the Postal Service. There's far less agreement on how to return to profitability.
Donahoe tells Federal News Radio he's confident the USPS will return to black, but not without cutting back on delivery days.
"The loss of first class volume puts a lot of additional cost pressure" on the postal service, said Donahoe.
"We eventually will have to go from six to five days from a delivery standpoint to remain in the black."
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6 comments:
I get enough mail on normal weekdays. I could live without Saturday deliveries. You can't do anything with checks received in the mail until the "next business day" even if you deposit it on Saturday, it ain't credited until Monday.
Bills can wait until Monday in any case.
Junk goes straight into the trash on any day.
Wait, so they have less mail, which means less work to do, but need more money and want to deliver on less days? Something isn't adding up. Less mail should equal more service, not less.
The upside is this will force us to use private mail companies more and more until the government gets out of the mail delivery business.
My mother in law who works at the post office says Mondays are the slowest mail days so they should cut that day if they cut one.
capsfan, I thought Thursday's was actually the slowest. That's why they put all of the junk mail out on Thursdays.
First Class mail will continue to decline which means that Standard Rate (junk mail) will increasingly become the dominant product offered by the USPS. Simply cutting a day of delivery won't put USPS back in the black. They need to get out of the advertising game. If there weren't junk mail, the carrier would not need to stop at every mailbox. Instead of assigning a carrier 500 mailboxes, assign them 500 delivery stops. Yes, the route would become longer in distance but a carrier could cover a greater area in nearly the same amount of time. There would be fewer carriers needed.
"My mother in law who works at the post office says Mondays are the slowest mail days"
I worked as a carrier for a brief period and I never found this to be true. The big mail machine in the sky spits mail out 7 days a week. Mondays have an additional day of accumulated mail. It was worse on 3 day weekends. Now, if the junk mail weren't in the equation, it would not be as overwhelming.
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