Last month, the cash-strapped street urchin that is the U.S. Postal Service pleaded “more gruel, sir” to the Postal Regulatory Commission, asking for permission to expand its test of delivering groceries and other non-postal items during those wee-morning hours when mail trucks mostly sit idle. Today, the PRC granted the USPS its wish.
USPS has already been running some very localized deliveries for Amazon’s Amazon Fresh grocery service, packing its trucks with customers’ orders and making deliveries, often in the pre-dawn hours.
The Postal Service hopes it can find a new life making these sorts of non-postal deliveries and asked the PRC for permission to expand the test in size and scope.
Today, the PRC [PDF] gave the Service the okay to do so, but under the condition that the experimental “Custom Delivery” service program must be “from the viewpoint of mail users, significantly different from all Postal Service products offered within the past two fiscal years.”
This is basically a way of saying, that is a test to see how the USPS does with delivering things other than letters or packages.
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Only a Government centric mind would think that someone would want groceries delivered in the middle of the night and then have to get up and put things away.
ReplyDeleteNanticoke P.O. would be a good trial. They deliver when they feel like it , even if it's not your mail. They must have been associated with the BOE somehow.
ReplyDeleteThey can't even handle non fragile items... what makes them think this will be successful? It won't, further burying them into the hole they've created.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it ironic that UPS is selling franchises to ordinary people to do what the USPS loses money doing?
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