USPS to Raise Prices, Make Delivery Changes to Raise Revenue

As U.S. Postal Service leaders plan to bump up revenue after a difficult year customers can expect to see price increases and changes to how it delivers first-class mail.

The strategic plan, which Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is expected to unveil soon, comes after the agency lost $9.2 billion last year because of a decline in mail volume sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, according to The Washington Post.

The newspaper reports that USPS is looking to eliminate a tier of first-class mail in which letters, bills and other envelope-sized items can be delivered to local addresses in two days. All first-class correspondence would instead be grouped into a slower, three-to-five-day window, it adds.

Two people familiar with the plan also told The Washington Post that first-class mail would no longer be shipped by plane, as the agency would utilize a network of trucks and distribution depots.

USPS reportedly spent more than $457 million on flying first-class mail in 2020, compared to $314 million shipping mail by truck.

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Patricia H. Cashion

9 months ago

It becomes more and more apparent that they need to be done away with and given over to a privet contractor who will do it more efficiently and faster and better. Now is the time.

mama bear

Turning over to a private contractors sounds good, but, should that happen, you will probably see a lot of carriers leave or retire early due to loss in wages. The post office does pay good wages to those that have to be out in all types of weather. How many people would want to be out in the rain, hail, winter to deliver someone’s mail? Not many. How badly do you want daily mail delivered? Think of the outcome before speaking, You see your mailperson every day, but would you see a contractor delivering everyday? hummm.

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Paul Wilson

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Seems to me that Mama Bear makes it clear that more than cursory thought needs to go into what the public wants done about this situation. We need a postal delivery which still RETAINS THE OLD POST OFFICE MOTTO, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” as much as possible, and that will take keeping the best, most-loyal-to-their-oath current employees.