Lehigh Valley residents moving into new housing developments soon could find themselves trekking much farther than the curb to retrieve mail. Jason Zerfass, of Palmer Township, is one of them. After receiving mail for a week upon moving into the Maple Shade Estates development in July, his mail delivery suddenly stopped. The U.S. Postal Service,…
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is floating a new postal proposal this week, and he intends to put before his committee on Wednesday morning, May 21. Unlike the previous Issa attempt, which replicated President Obama’s postal plan, the latest Issa draft bill would simply phase-out door delivery and replace it…
Each year, the Postal Service™ designates the third full week of May as Mailbox Improvement Week to encourage customers on city motorized, rural, or contract delivery service routes (formerly highway contract box delivery routes) to examine and, where necessary, improve the appearance of their mailboxes. Neat, attractive mailboxes make a significant contribution to the appearance…
Door-to-door deliveries for packages could become a thing of the past as the U.S. Postal Service looks for ways to cut costs — even as officials concede they don’t know if the cost etimates they are using are reliable. USPS estimated that it costs roughly $380 annually per delivery point to deliver a package to…
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…
