USPS OIG: Management Alert – Substantial Increase in Delayed Mail Audit Report

Introduction The purpose of this alert is to bring to your attention the need to immediately address the timeliness of mail processing following the January 5, 2015, service standard revisions. These revisions were expected to affect about 14 billion pieces of total mail volume and up to 16 percent of First-Class Mail®. These revisions enabled…

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Have New Service Standards Impacted First-Class Mailers?

Project Title: Timeliness of First Class Mail Flats Start Date: June 16, 2015 Estimated Report Release Date: December 2015 In 2011, based on dramatically declining mail volumes and the subsequent excess capacity in its mail processing network, the Postal Service announced plans to revise its service standards, which would enable it to streamline its mail…

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Postal delivery issues linger in Northland

By Brady Slater – July 11, 2015 The Duluth mail processing center on the 2800 block of West Michigan Street remains fully staffed — but the delivery time of letters it handles appears to be falling behind the U.S. Postal Service’s new two-day local standard. “You talk about frustrating,” said James Linder, a local landlord…

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USPS OIG: Management Alert – Mail Processing Operations at Southern Maine P&DC

“This management alert presents the results of our self-initiated review of mail processing operations at the Southern Maine Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) (Project Number 15XG015NO000). Our objective was to assess mail processing operational changes at the Southern Maine P&DC in response to the January 5, 2015, service standard revisions. We concluded the Southern Maine…

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Video: Investigating Pocatello, Idaho mail delivery delays

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player May 4, 2015 It’s been more than two weeks since the U.S. Postal Service stopped processing mail in Pocatello and began rerouting it to Salt Lake City. Local News 8 investigates whether mail is taking longer to arrive. Luke Jones reports. Source: Investigating mail delivery delays | Video – Home

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It’s not just you: Letters really are taking longer to get delivered

By Lisa Rein – April 27, 2015 The U.S. mail is slowing down. In January, the Postal Service eliminated overnight delivery for local first-class letters that used to arrive the next day. Anywhere from 20 percent to half of the rest of the first-class mail sent every day now takes an extra day of delivery…

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Cut And Slash Is Not The Way To Save America’s Post Office

By John Greathouse Editor, The Pacer National Postal Press Association American Postal Workers Union Central Michigan Area Local – Lansing, MI In 2010 the Postal Service, under the guise of a financial crisis, began with what is best described as a “Fire Sale”! This financial crisis gave them the reason to begin the closing of…

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UPDATED (1/13/15): Network Rationalization Phase 2 Overview, FAQS for Mailers

Network Rationalization Phase 2 Overview November 2014 (New 01/13/2015) Updated Phase 2 FAQS for Mailers and Mailing Industry, January 2015 (New 01/13/2015) via USPS  

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