News Release – Tuesday, October 11, 2016 WASHINGTON â Hundreds of post offices around the country would be protected from indefinite âemergency closureâ under new bipartisan legislation from U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, a longtime champion of rural post service. The bill would prevent the U.S. Postal Service from using its emergency suspension processâmeant to be…
Project Title: Omaha, NE, P&DC Customer Service Performance Start Date: Monday, March 28, 2016 Estimated Report Release Date: September 2016 In an effort to align its mail processing infrastructure with declining mail volume, the Postal Service has consolidated some mail processing facilities nationwide. Before initiating the consolidations, the Postal Service is required to evaluate service standard…
By Dan Casey – April 6, 2015 There’s no sign that problems with the region’s U.S. Mail service are letting up. And all of it might be related to an obscure law Congress passed in 2006 that caused a financial crisis in the U.S. Postal Service. Bill Bunchâs March car payment also arrived way…
Web News Article #: 70-2016 03/31/2016 – According to the Postal Regulatory Commissionâs (PRC) Annual Compliance Determination Report (ACD), the Postal Service failed to meet the majority of service performance targets in fiscal year 2015. Service performance remains âsubstantially below their targets,â the March 28 report found. The Postal Service lowered service standards in January…
Press Release – 3/28/2016 Washington, DC â The Postal Regulatory Commission (Commission) today issued its statutorily mandated Annual Compliance Determination (ACD) assessing the Postal Serviceâs compliance with pricing and service performance standards in fiscal year (FY) 2015. The most pointed critiques identified in this yearâs ACD relate to service performance generally, and cost and service…
USPS Commits to Take Fresh Look at Postal Plans March 21, 2016 Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C. â The United States Postal Service (USPS) on Friday responded to U.S. Rep. McSallyâs calls to update studies used to propose the consolidation of postal facilities around the country, including the Cherrybell Postal Processing facility in Tucson. In the…
February 20, 2016 The U.S. Postal Serviceâs aborted attempt to save money by consolidating its processing facilities backfired: It actually increased costs in 2015, USPS officials recently acknowledged. Higher transportation expenses from Phase II of the USPSâs âNetwork Rationalizationâ effort more than wiped out the programâs savings on labor and parts, the Postal Service told…
