Postal Service considers rural mail slowdown in plan to save $3B per year

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8 thoughts on “Postal Service considers rural mail slowdown in plan to save $3B per year

  1. Hell, I live in the middle of the city and still can’t get the BACON STATION POST OFFICE to deliver mail on a consistent basis. Easily one of the worst branches in all of Indianapolis – completely mismanaged from top to bottom.

  2. To some extent, the change to the expected delivery times reflects reality and lets the USPS provide more accurate delivery expectations. I have received a lot of first class mail from California over the years and I notice the delivery times were typically 4-8 days, with the hold up typically in California itself. Therefore, I suspect that all these changes are doing is managing expectations rather than actually changing delivery times.

  3. If they do this I would rather have a day during the middle of the week where mail isn’t delivered instead of having two consecutive days such as Saturday and Sunday with no mail delivery.

  4. TRUMP put Dejoy at the post office to destroy it then privatize it . Because he lost the mail in vote count. Now the Democrats have control of the postal board that could fire and replace Dejoy. But they have not done it because Dejoy is a funds raising cash cow for them !

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