USPS OIG Report: Declines in Mail Volume Vary Widely across the United States
White Papers – RARC-WP-15-010 – 04/27/2015 Declining First-Class Mail (FCM) volumes pose a major financial challenge to the U.S. Postal Service because FCM contributes by far the largest proportion of revenue to the Postal Service’s bottom line. Between fiscal years 1995 and 2013, FCM single-piece volume dropped by 61 percent. But a close analysis of…