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Save the Post office website provides information about post office closings, suspensions, and consolidations; the historic post office buildings that are being sold; and the fight to preserve the people's post office. The website also examines topics like the Postal Service's finances, court cases, and the efforts to privatize the postal system.
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and save the Postal Service $30 billion over the next decade. in order to keep itself afloat, and the plan involves slower mail in rural ZIP codes across the country. But the agency will not say which post offices will be affected. The details of the proposal forecast how the agency plans to achieve that — by “adjusting” pickup and drop-off times when a post office is far away from a regional hub. The agency has run in the red to the tune of several billion dollars each year on the back of declining mail volumes ..read more
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In a statement responding to the letter, Adrienne Marshall, the director for election mail at the Postal Service, said that the agency was “ready to deliver. We were successful in 2020 delivering a historic volume of mail in ballots; also in 2022 and will do so again in November 2024.” wrote a letter to Louis DeJoy , the head of the Postal Service, saying that election officials had “raised serious questions” about “lost or delayed election mail” and other problems affecting the agency’s ability to deliver ballots on time ahead of Election Day. The letter added that some of the issues have led ..read more
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e. For this question, the Postal Service interprets the reference to “First Mile Profile results” to mean the First Mile Impact on overall service performance in the applicable district. In FY 2023 and FY 2024 Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 First Mile Impact for district level LTO sites is provided below. CIR 1 USPS Resp. Public Attachments ..read more
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Georgia USPS mail delays | 6 months later | 11alive.com But even now, in the final week of August, daily complaints continue. Diana Naczi is among those speaking out after missing critical legal documents despite having paid extra for additional tracking ..read more
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wants to save $3 billion annually on changes that reflect its greater reliance on streamlined regional networks — while retaining local mail delivery times of one to three days and allowing customers to track some delivery schedules with greater precision. After postage stamp price hikes and $87 billion in losses, critics of the USPS leader say his latest gambit could lead to a death spiral | Fortune ..read more
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and save the Postal Service $30 billion over the next decade. in order to keep itself afloat, and the plan involves slower mail in rural ZIP codes across the country. But the agency will not say which post offices will be affected. The details of the proposal forecast how the agency plans to achieve that — by “adjusting” pickup and drop-off times when a post office is far away from a regional hub. The agency has run in the red to the tune of several billion dollars each year on the back of declining mail volumes ..read more
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Effectiveness of the New Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Atlanta, GA. Report Number 24-074-R24. In addition, the Postal Service did not build on lessons learned from the launch of the Richmond RPDC, to address similar barriers to success such as staffing, training, and supervision. Specifically, the Postal Service experienced serious staffing challenges at the Atlanta RPDC and did not have management in place to supervise employees and operations at launch. Finally, the Postal Service’s policy did not require it to communicate its plans to close certain facilities in the Atlanta ..read more
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Missouri Congressman Cleaver opposes plans that could delay rural mail delivery – Missourinet The Postal Service said in a statement that the proposed reorganization would save about $30 billion over ten years’ time and would reduce the agency’s carbon emissions. A pre-filing conference for the proposal is set for Thursday ..read more
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Proposed Cuts to Rural Mail Service Pose New Threat to Co-ops – America’s Electric Cooperatives would intensify pressure on co-ops, which have already faced sharp in recent years that have raised costs to ship their magazines, electric bills and other mail to members. “One thing folks can do now is to sign up for the pre-filing virtual conference,” said Stephen Kearny, executive director of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers. “They could sign up for a speaking role and explain how rural service is already worse than it had been. And explain how the changes could negatively aff ..read more
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USPS Shuts Out Wyomingites Who Want To Comment… | Cowboy State Daily USPS has also highlighted that rural mail service will not be altogether cut, even if it’s slower than before. , registration closed at noon on Sept. 3 ..read more