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…
For Immediate Release 01/06/2015 – The nation will benefit from the departure of Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe. In his short tenure, Donahoe has led an all-out assault on the nationâs Postal Service. He has shuttered hundreds of mail processing facilities, slashed hours at thousands of neighborhood post offices, and sold priceless postal real estate. Just…
Farewell Address offers perspective and advice for postal stakeholders/Congress WASHINGTON â Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe was the featured speaker at the January 6, 2015 National Press Club Newsmakers news conference in Washington, DC. Speaking to reporters collectively for the last time prior to his retirement, Donahoe praised postal employees for their hard-work and accomplishments…
The year 2014 was certainly historic on the postal and logistics front. Alibaba entered the U.S. market with a bang, setting a record with the largest ever U.S. initial public offering. For the first time ever, non-mail revenues exceeded mail revenues for postal administrations around the world. Shippers braced for the full effect of dimensional…
By Don Soifer – December 31, 2014 Early in 2015, the U.S. Postal Service will welcome a new chief executive â Megan Brennan, the first female postmaster general in the agency’s 200-plus-year history. She’ll have her work cut out for her. The agency, thanks to its badly broken business model, is losing money at a…
(November 23, 2014) No matter what Megan Brennan does as the nationâs first woman postmaster general, she is bound to make a lot of people unhappy. In 2015 Brennan, now chief operating officer of the U.S. Postal Service, will replace Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, who is retiring Feb. 1. Brennan will take over as the…
The Postal Service Board of Governors announced today that Postmaster General and CEO Pat Donahoe has decided to retire Feb. 1, 2015, after 39 years with USPS. The board also announced the appointment of Megan Brennan, currently chief operating officer, as the next PMG. At a public board meeting, Chairman Mickey D. Barnett called Donahoe…
(September 11, 2014) The US Postal Service will maintain overnight delivery for about 66% of the current overnight delivery volumes following the next phase of its network consolidation. Thatâs according to chief operating officer and executive vice president Megan Brennan, who was speaking to major customers in Salt Lake City this week at the annual…
