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Top U.S. Postal Service officials are considering plans to allow slower mail delivery in the coming months for long-distance and rural service to cut costs at the financially troubled agency — but not until after the election.
The changes would give customers within 50 miles of the Postal Service’s largest processing facilities faster delivery service, which accounts for the vast majority of mail and packages, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told The Washington Post. But the agency cannot afford to maintain the same model for deliveries into far-flung areas, he said. That could add an additional day to current delivery timetables, though mail would still be delivered in five days or less across the country.
“At the end of the day, I think some portion of the mail showing up 12 hours later, I think it’s a price that had to be paid for letting this place be neglected,” DeJoy said. “You look around every other country, [delivery] is longer, it’s much more expensive. We’re trying to save the Postal Service — not figuratively, not to advocate for something. We’re trying to literally save the Postal Service.”
Postal Service considers rural mail slowdown after election
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I didn’t know it could get any slower!! To many bills arriving late as is.
Buy a carrier pigeon. It would be faster.
Why don’t they hire more people specifically to deliver Amazon since we’ve taken on that job and our own and now the carriers are completely buried and the subs are forced to work Sundays in other offices delivering Amazon.
To save money they need to get rid of management and all these computer people watching us work. No one needs an assistant and they make over a hundred grand a year to watch us
Our pume told my pm we weren’t allowed to talk to our customers and we were to tell them if they had any questions to call the po. How would the clerk know what’s going on on my route?
Management and Lejoy have put Amazon before the mail.
DeJoy has killed the postal service!!!