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Postal Updates New USPS ‘Delivering for America’ plan calls for higher prices and slower deliveries Mar 23, 2021, 4 PM By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s long-awaited 10-year plan to rescue the financially troubled United States Postal Service calls for higher stamp prices, slower deliveries and the revamping of how mail travels.…

Management USPS aims to break-even by 2023 under 10-year infrastructure plan By Jory Heckman @jheckmanWFED March 23, 2021 3:41 pm 6 min read        The Postal Service sees brighter days ahead, now that it has a strategy that invests $40 billion into its infrastructure and workforce over the next decade. The USPS 10-year strategy is…

Biden’s Postal Board Nominees Unlikely to Spell Quick End to Postmaster General’s Tenure The president’s picks are probably not going to vote to remove DeJoy and are knowledgeable on postal issues, observers say. February 25, 2021 President Biden’s nominations to fill out the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board will give his priorities greater weight in…

Direct Marketing February 22, 2021 Postmaster General Plans to Raise Prices and Slow Mail Delivery Times Credit: Getty Images by P_Wei By Nhu Te Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter LinkedIn LinkedIn Email Email 0 Comments Comments As the end of 2020 proved to be a challenging time for the United States Postal Service and nonprofits alike,…

  Postal Updates DeJoy’s plan for USPS calls for rate hikes and slower deliveries Feb 16, 2021, 1 PM By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent The first hints of what Postmaster General Louis DeJoy wants in his long-awaited 10-year plan suggest that higher postage rates and slower mail deliveries might lie ahead. The Washington Post reported Feb. 13…

Postal Updates Data show decline in USPS mail service Jan 25, 2021, 2 PM Washington Postal Scene by Bill McAllister Tony Rothwell of Pinehurst, N.C., asked a question that a lot of Americans are posing these days: “If the post office can’t be bothered to deliver the mail in a timely manner, why should we…

  Postal Updates Chaotic USPS mail conditions in several areas Dec 15, 2020, 1 PM According to news accounts, dozens of tractor trailers waited for days to unload mail at a Cleveland processing plant. Screen capture of mail trucks from a USPS video about mail processing. By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent A combination of postal…

Monday | December 14th, 2020 Postage Rates Could Jump 7.6% During 2021 The NonProfit Times News December 14, 2020 Postal rates are set to rise by an average of almost 2 percent next month as part of annual increases by the United States Postal Service (USPS). Rates might jump even more – maybe 7.6% —…

Postal Updates A call for taxpayer funding of the U.S. Postal Service Sep 16, 2020, 10 AM Taxpayer funding was something Congress abandoned with great joy 50 years ago during the Nixon administration. Washington Postal Scene by Bill McAllister In the midst of the controversies over Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, an astute postal observer in…

Ad targeting Collins over Postal Service debts leaves a lot out Postal finances are more complicated than the ads let on, and members of both parties have had a hand in bringing the agency to where it is today. By Kevin MillerPortland Press Herald Share 1 Comment A pair of television ads from Democrats blaming…