By Henry J. Cordes – May 17, 2015 For decades, the U.S. Postal Service has pledged that you could send a letter anywhere in the country and see it arrive at its destination within three days. But lately, only 63 percent of such non-local mail arrives on time. For letters sent from or to some…
Unless we plan on sending enough mail — millions of extra letters and packages — to help keep the U.S. Postal Service afloat, we may soon experience the limitations of mail delivery, such as occurring only five days a week. According to a Bloomberg Businessweek report earlier this year, a U.S. Senate committee passed a…
DES MOINES, Iowa — When it comes to incompetence, losing money and union muscle-flexing, the U.S. Postal Service always delivers. A recently released audit by the USPS Office of Inspector General shows Postal Service officials failed to follow proper procedures and wildly overestimated potential savings when it awarded a contract for mailbox maintenance in 18 states…
