Web News Article #: 009-2015 01/16/2015 – Outgoing Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe made headlines when he blamed postal unions and big mailers for the Postal Serviceâs problems in a recent farewell address, but he made a few other surprising comments as well. In a speech to the National Press Club on Jan. 6, Donahoe admitted…
January 15, 2015 PMG Pat Donahoe is receiving lots of praise as he prepares to retire Feb. 1 after 39 years with the Postal Service. Sen. Thomas Carper (D-DE), who recently served as chairman of a Senate committee that oversees postal matters, paid tribute to the PMG in a lengthy statement in the Congressional Record…
By Greg Kocher – January 14, 2015 The mail-processing center on Nandino Boulevard in Lexington will begin closing in June, according to a U.S. Postal Service schedule. The Lexington center is among 82 nationwide that the postal service plans to shutter in a new round of plant closings and consolidations. Mail-sorting operations now performed in…
Web News Article #:Â 006-2015 01/13/2015 – When postal officials lowered âservice standardsâ on Jan. 5, they didnât just slow down Americaâs mail: They set in motion a process that is causing serious disruption in the lives of thousands of hard-working postal employees. As management reconfigures mail processing, they are also causing massive reassignments and shift…
By Shawn McCoy – January 13, 2015 A new compliance report from the United States Postal Service (USPS), coupled with frank comments from outgoing Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, raise serious concerns about the direction the post office is headed. USPS has lost $26 billion over the past three years, and the rate of loss has…
(January 11, 2015) The mail is slowing down again, but it’s not clear how much. There’s good reason to be believe, though, that it will more than the Postal Service is saying. The first slowdown took place in July 2012, when the Postal Service implemented phase one of the Network Rationalization plan, which closed about 150 mail…
Changes that took effect this week will not affect bulk or metered mail as much as first-class letters. The U.S. Postal Service has announced new âlower standards for mail deliveryâ that will result in mail delivery taking longer to reach its destination. The new standards took effect Jan. 5, 2015. In a press conference held…
By Emily Kopp – January 6, 2014 “Myopia” and “shortsightedness” from postal unions, Congress and the mailing industry are keeping the Postal Service from making changes that would let it survive in the digital era, according to Postmaster General Pat Donahoe. “That may sound a little harsh, but it would be too easy to say…
