By Tom Caldwell – July 25, 2017 On a given Sunday, the United States Postal Service delivers 300 packages in Gilford and Laconia, and has been doing so for about a year. âThe customers love it,â said Michael Quinn, officer in charge of the Laconia Post Office. Just a few years ago, seeing a decline…
By D. Eadward Tree, Chief Arborist – September 12, 2015 The E-commerce Revolution is reverberating throughout the U.S. Postal Service, but not in the destructive manner of other digital disruptions like email, online news, and electronic bill payment. Largely, if not solely, because of online merchants, the agencyâs âShipping and Packageâ revenue is growing at…
Donât let the decline in mail volumes over the past few years fool you. People still place a high value on postal services. Postal customers especially value being able to interact with postal employees at a Post Office as compared to other retail alternatives. And while some people might be indifferent to Saturday delivery of…
If Congress fixes retirement pre-funding, rural and Saturday service would not need to be cut. Your Aug. 2 editorial (âOur View: Bleak message for patrons of rural post offices in Maine, nationwideâ) properly emphasized the importance of rural post offices for Maine, and more broadly the role of the U.S. Postal Service, which does so…
The USPS may not have gone forward with its plans to kill Saturday mail delivery, but Netflix isn’t waiting. A few customers have noticed it’s no longer processing shipments on Saturdays, opting for a five day schedule instead. Company spokesman Joris Evers tells Engadget that it’s been transitioning in that direction over the past year…
June 25, 2014âLanguage mandating six-day mail deliveryâintentionally left out of the draft version of the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Governmentâs Fiscal Year 2015 spending billâwas successfully reinserted into the measure that was approved on Wednesday by a voice vote of the full House Appropriations committee. âThis is a clear victory for letter…
The Obama Administration and House Republicans donât agree about much, but both say the U.S. Postal Service, which reported a $5 billion loss last yearâlargely because it is expected to prefund its future retiree health-care benefitsâshould do away with Saturday letter delivery to save money. That probably makes sense at a time when postal operations…
The Postal Serviceâs improving financial situation is fueling a debate between the agency, lawmakers and unions over what kind of legislation is needed to save the struggling agency. At stake are billions of dollars, tens of thousands of jobs and the future of the agency. The debate centers on which income best represents the Postal…
