(This means the Postal Service will submit a report responding to the “show cause” order later this month and not request an advisory opinion. Presumably the PRC would then need to take the Postal Service to court over the matter, which would take many months to resolve. As an alternative, under the current public inquiry docket on DFA, the Commission could exert its to get the information it would otherwise have requested in an advisory opinion docket ..read more

Senators call on postal board to abandon DeJoy’s USPS reforms – Government Executive The letter was the latest in a   the changes are actively harming the Postal Service and its customers. , though it went further in calling for the termination of the Delivering for America plan altogether. After initial backlash to DeJoy’s selection and his early reform efforts, temperatures cooled as lawmakers worked with the postmaster general to pass the 2022 Postal Service Reform Act and allowed him some leeway to enact his vision. As consolidations and mail rerouting efforts hit individual memb ..read more

USPS sees mail delays amid network overhaul. Now lawmakers, regulator seek answers  to start the process of obtaining an advisory opinion on its network modernization plans or explain why such a review is unnecessary. “It is clear that there has been a quantifiable decline in service across several regions during and after the implementation of new facility types,” the commission wrote ..read more

: Postmaster DeJoy wants to make the USPS more efficient. More Perfect Union is a nonprofit media organization with a mission to build power for working people. Learn more here: has lots of good comments ..read more

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Poor service performance showed across the spectrum last week.  It was a worrisome week. All statistics are gathered from a sample of mail that we track for our customers.  For the week just finished, the sample size was more than 44 million. US MAIL TRAFFIC REPORT APRIL 15, 2024 – SnailTalk ..read more

When the final report came out on Tuesday, Holstein said workers’ fears were actualized.  plans to transfer outgoing mail processing from the Charleston Processing and Distribution Center to facilities in Pennsylvania.  concerned with the fate of West Virginia’s only full USPS processing center. More Postal Workers Affected By Facility Downgrade Than Union Anticipated – West Virginia Public Broadcasting : West Virginia Public Broadcasting ..read more

Consolidating operations to more new RPDCs and ending evening collections at thousands of post offices will continue to erode service, damage the Postal Service’s reputation, and threaten voting by mail. Perhaps it’s time for a moratorium on further changes, at least until after the election. about how the issues could impact mail-in ballots, and Keith Balmer with the Richmond Office of Elections is urging voters to make sure they get their ballot in early and drop off mail in person if possible. “This is not the election to wait until the end to decide that you want to vote by mail, unfortuna ..read more

Major mail delivery delays raise concerns about voting in the 2024 elections “Hopefully this won’t turn into a problem,” said Steve Hutkins, who runs the website Save the Post Office. “But if the election is really close and a couple of key states have mail ballot issues, it could be a nightmare.”  on hundreds of complaints from residents and long lines of trucks backed up at the facility waiting to drop off and pick up mail ..read more

“Packages are just sitting in there, piled up everywhere,” Emi Collymore, a USPS worker, told Atlanta’s FOX 5 in a March 15 on-camera interview. “Everywhere you look, you’ll see packages.” Massive USPS mail disruptions descend on Atlanta ..read more