Are There Other Viable Alternatives for 6-Day Delivery Operations?
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In these challenging times, reducing the cost of delivery operations — one of the Postal Service’s largest expenses — could save millions. One option the Postal Service is considering is to discontinue Saturday city and rural delivery and collection services.
Saturday is said to be one of the lowest mail volume days. It’s also a day when many businesses are closed. The September/October 2009 digital issue of Mailing Systems Technology included a survey of managers working in the mailing industry. Of those surveyed, 98 percent said changing to 5-day delivery would not require a change in staffing. The survey results also indicated that most managers surveyed (81 percent) preferred Saturday as the day of the week that the Postal Service would stop delivering mail. An additional 62 percent of the managers surveyed felt that once implemented, there should be no exceptions to 5-day deliveries such as for holiday weeks or high-volume mailing periods.
Loading ... Loading ... Loading ...Gallup also conducted polls on ways to help the Postal Service solve its financial problems. They found that 66 percent of Americans supported reducing mail delivery days from 6 to 5 days, and 66 percent also supported reducing the number of days the Post Office is open from 6 to 5 days.
The Postal Service is currently studying the reduction of mail delivery from 6 days to 5 days. Should the Postal Service consider eliminating delivery, collections, retail, and remittance services only for delivery units with low mail volume? Should the Postal Service eliminate these services for all delivery units nationwide?
This blog is hosted by the OIG’s Delivery directorate.
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May 31st, 2010 at 10:31 am
Isn’t ironic how some parts of the postal services is closing down, eventually completely evaporating from our world. One might wonder, why has this postal crisis arisen? With high competitive environments, everyone has to be on their guard. There is no stretch of fault or error. This is an example to all of us, of such a huge system crippling down to ashes slowly.
March 4th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Wow! The very core of USPS is to DELIVER! It is my humble opinion that the USPS should rid itself of all employees that are nonessential to core of the USPS….delivery of the mail and services that support this function. Instead, the USPS would consider sacrificing the very reason it’s in existence by considering 5 day delivery. Just doesn’t seem like good business from the stand point of someone “on the front line” delivering mail for the USPS such as a Rural Carrier like myself. Should I purchase a van or perhaps a huge SUV, because that’s exactly what it will take to deliver 6 days volume of mail in 5 days. The USPS desperately needs some full disclosure and a huge dose of common sense.