For reasons perhaps known only to the operational brain trust dutifully serving Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and his 10-Year Plan, the redesign of the postal processing network seems to have all originating mail flowing into the 60 or so regional processing and distribution centers from which it will go to other RPDCs or back through local processing centers for distribution…
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Although the Postal Service has always offered package services, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is fixated on transforming the agency from one focused on paper mail into one built around the package business. Accordingly, the new delivery vehicles on order are bigger – to hold more boxes – and the facilities in the USPS processing and delivery network are getting more…
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For Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the new Atlanta Regional Processing and Distribution Center, 25 miles southwest of downtown, was to be a centerpiece example of how his 10-Year Plan would replace the “inefficient” network of “randomly” located processing centers with a matrix of “high-performing” facilities enabling “service excellence.” Six months after its February 24 activation, the Atlanta RPDC is anything…
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The popular perception may be that trackable mailpieces are scanned when deposited, during processing, and at delivery and that, in turn, the places, dates, and times reported by the Postal Service are accurate reflections of real events, including where and when they occurred. However, a situation reported by a Mailers Hub subscriber not only suggests that perception is incorrect, but…
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Speaking June 3 at the opening general session of the 2024 National Postal Forum, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy took a different approach in his usual rant about what was wrong when he arrived to lead the Postal Service in June 2020. Rather than simply decrying his predecessors’ lack of a plan, he reviewed the operational and ratemaking fundamentals in place…
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As the Postal Service was accelerating its repurposing and consolidation of mail processing operations, it became known that one facility that would be affected was the Missoula (MT) P&DC. Under the network realignment plan, it would be downgraded to a Local Processing Center, handling only mail destinating in its service area. Outgoing volume would be trucked nearly 200 miles over…
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Under Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, and in conformance with his 10-Year Plan, the Postal Service has obsessively pursued measures to fill trucks and reduce transportation, all in the name of “efficiency.” Initially called “Optimized Collections,” but since renamed the “Local Transportation Optimization,” the initiative’s objective is the same: run only one trip from the processing facility to local post offices…
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Usually, when the Postal Regulatory Commission allows the Postal Service to conduct a test of a potential new product or service, there’s a finite arc of related events, such as a proposal by the USPS, review by the PRC, and establishment of a test with reporting requirements and specific start and end dates. Over the test period, results are reported…
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As the saying goes, “Success has many parents while failure is an orphan.” To a degree, this may apply to the stillborn negotiated service agreement with Publishers Clearing House that the Postal Service had filed last August 11. That filing was different from other NSAs in that it was for market-dominant mail, not competitive products. As the USPS stated in…
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We thought it important to ring in the New Year by highlighting three legal developments early enough in the year so as to permit enough time to strategically mitigate the risks of failing to comply with these new laws. (We will go into more detail about these developments during our Webinar at 1 pm on February 13, 2024.) CTA First…
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