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Postal Reform: A Telling Survey

truckingal Wrote: May 06, 2012 11:09 AM

This week, I personally got in the mail: 1 paper check (Wells Fargo), vehicle license renewal stamp, Vehicle insurance proof, Medicare letter, property tax notice, three packages/items purchased on-line. One one day while I was at the Post Office, eleven people came in to pick up their mail-5 had packages! (shipping USPS is cheaper than driving rt and USPS does the last mile for FedEx/UPS). None of this is counted as volume at this Post Office-as it originated elsewhere! The few people here who have internet purchase items on line- and a few sell via eBay using the local Post Office. This is rural America-and clowns like DeHaven want to stamp it out! Get a clue, Congress-USPS is a SERVICE, not a business. Raise prices-make it work!

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Postal Reform: A Telling Survey

First-class mail is the USPS’s most profitable product. Thus, the large – and permanent – drop in first-class mail volume has the USPS facing red ink as far as the eye can see. The U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general recently reported its findings from focus group discussions held with high-volume first-class mailers and mail service providers. The feedback is quite telling:

Both mailers and customers are turning to electronic alternatives for the obvious reason that it’s cheaper and more efficient than physical mail. The participants estimated that the per-piece cost of sending transactional mail (e.g., billing statements, invoices,...