“As it has since 2002, Federal Express Corporation flew again to the top of the list as the Postal Serviceâs largest supplier. FedEx increased its USPS revenues by $400 million, jetting to the $2 billion mark for the first time and landing a new record for single-year supplier revenue. FedEx carries package and letter mail…
White Papers – SM-WP-15-002 – 05/12/2015 The U.S. Postal Service leases more than 23,000 buildings, consisting of about 79 million interior square feet. It pays more than $800 million annually to lease these properties. The Eastern Area has 10 districts covering parts of New York and extending as far south as Tennessee. As of September…
February 16, 2015 What if your credit card company told you: âYou will charge a million dollars on your credit card during your life; please enclose the million dollars in your next bill payment. Itâs the responsible thing to do.â Doesnât seem quite right, does it? Well, thatâs what the U.S. Postal Serviceâs requirement to…
RARC-WP-15-006 – 02/09/2015 By now, itâs fairly common knowledge that digital communications has cut into First-Class Mail volumes. But does this necessarily mean people always prefer to communicate digitally? To find out, we looked at the trends and customer preferences for one particular mail segment â transactional mail, which consists primarily of household bills and…
RARC-WP-15-003 â 01/05/2015 Increasingly, companies large and small are moving toward flexible workforce policies, which allow employees, among other things, to adjust their work schedules to their personal lives as much as possible. In general, the strategic value of such policies is that they help employees establish a healthy work-life balance, which can yield benefits…
White Papers – HR-WP-14-003 08/18/2014 Executive Summary Enacted in 1916, the Federal Employeesâ Compensation Act (FECA) provides medical, compensation, death, and vocational rehabilitation benefits to civilian federal employees who sustain injuries â including occupational disease â because of their employment with the federal government. The U.S. Congress amended FECA in 1974 to provide continuation of…
Audit Report – HR-WP-14-002 – 05/01/2014 The U.S. Postal Service continues to experience financial challenges and operated at a $5 billion deficit in fiscal year (FY) 2013. The Postal Service remains a labor-intensive organization; it incurred about $47 billion in compensation and benefits expenses in FY 2013, including about $6 billion for retirement benefits. In…
