USPS OIG: Do you receive your mail through Omaha, Nebraska?

Project Title: Omaha, NE, P&DC Customer Service Performance Start Date: Monday, March 28, 2016 Estimated Report Release Date: September 2016 In an effort to align its mail processing infrastructure with declining mail volume, the Postal Service has consolidated some mail processing facilities nationwide. Before initiating the consolidations, the Postal Service is required to evaluate service standard…

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Rep Fortenberry complains of slow mail delivery to PMG; days later his townhall invites get delayed

By Henry J. Cordes – August 24, 2015 Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska recently sent a letter to the U.S. postmaster sharing Nebraskans’ grievances over slow mail delivery, including overdue charges because of late credit card payments and delayed arrival of prescription drugs. Then, just days later, Fortenberry found himself with a major snail mail…

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U.S. Postal Service delivery times lag more than expected

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…

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USPS OIG: Management Alert – Manual Package Counting and Conversion Factors

Audit Report – NO-MA-14-008 – 09/30/2014 “We are alerting you to this condition because it may be systemic throughout the network and could result in overstated manual package processing volumes.” Introduction This management alert presents the results of our review of manual package counting and conversion factors at the Omaha, NE Processing and Distribution Center…

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Budget woes mean end of 30-year air mail service in Nebraska

Friday marked an important date in history for Nebraska. It was the day that air mail service in the state officially came to an end. “It’s the end of an era,” said Geoffrey Gallup, owner of Omaha-based Suburban Air Freight. “It’s going to slip quietly into history.” Suburban Air Freight has had a contract with…

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