May 26, 2014 (NBC) – “Community,” or curbside, mailboxes would replace door delivery for millions of Americans under a bill moving through Congress. A House committee recently approved a plan to have the postal service convert 15 million addresses to communal mailboxes over the next decade. That move could save as much as two billion…
…and there’s often an interesting story behind them. With snail mail headed the way of landlines and newspapers, few give much thought to their mailboxes these days. In some neighborhoods, doorstep delivery is already extinct, replaced by clustered units in a central location. The move away from traditional mailboxes could be why residents who erect…
For three years, U.S. Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has been trying to maneouver a comprehensive postal reform bill though Congress. His rescue plan for the ailing U.S. Postal Service involves eliminating Saturday letter delivery, closing some money-losing post offices, and consolidating the agency’s sprawling distribution network so it can process declining mail volume more efficiently….
WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans would no longer get mail delivered to their door but would go to communal or curbside boxes instead, under a proposed law. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform debated Wednesday a bill to direct the U.S. Postal Service to convert 1.5 million addresses annually — 15 million over…
CARY — Vijay and Vineela Madiraju had unloaded boxes in their new home, met their neighbors and transferred bills before they realized something was wrong: Not a single letter had arrived in the new, black Imperial mailbox in front of their home. “It took almost two weeks,” Vijay Madiraju said, before they knew the mail…
United States Government Accountability Office Report to the Chairman, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives What GAO Found The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) estimates of delivery mode costs and potential savings from converting to less costly modes show that door-to-door delivery is much more costly than delivery to a curbside or centralized…
By MARK JAMISON It looks like the folks in L’Enfant Plaza will be the last to acknowledge what everyone else in the country already knows — customer service at the Postal Service is going way down hill, and fast. The plant consolidations have resulted in delayed mail, late delivery, and countless other service problems. Under…
