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Postal Service Needs To Correct Its Financial Projections (From FEDweek) The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) needs to scrap its financial projections in the 10-year Delivering for America (DFA) strategic plan and take a hard, comprehensive look at how it does financial forecasting. Its recent projections have been way off. New p ...
How the Postal Service’s Finances So Quickly Returned To The Crisis Stage (From FEDweek) On April 6, 2022 as President Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act (PRSA), there was abounding yet misplaced optimism that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) had turned the corner financially and would have a bright future. Congress provided USPS wit ...
Fix America’s Dangerous International Mail System (From The National Interest) While Congress overwhelmingly enacted legislation in 2018 to curtail opioids, fentanyl, and other illegal contraband from entering the United States via the international postal system, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has dropped the ball on e ...
The Postal Service’s Inspector General Needs A Big Funding Boost (From FEDweek) With the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) going through a period of unprecedented, historic operational change while also facing skyrocketing crimes from outsiders and bad apples within its ranks, it is imperative to strengthen USPS’s Office of Inspector Gen ...
Government Bumbling Leaves Billions Of Opioid Pills For Misuse (From InsideSources DC Journal) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to put hundreds of millions of unused opioids into the U.S. mail stream annually. This is both dangerous and unnecessary, as there are simpler and far better ways to immediately get rid of these dangero ...
U.S. Department Of State And The Upcoming Universal Postal Union Extraordinary Congress At today’s meeting of the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Postal Delivery Services, Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler applauded the State Department for its work in advocating for reform at the Universal Postal Union (U ...
The FDA’s Troubling Plans To Dispose Opioids Via The U.S. Mail Read the full study as a PDF here. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to launch a program in 2024 that will put hundreds of millions of opioid pills in the U.S. mail as consumers mail unused narcotics back to drug companies for destruction. ...
Postal Service Must Immediately Fund Employee Pension Obligations (From FEDweek) The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is legally obligated to provide $5 billion in funding for its employees’ pensions by September 30. If it fails to do so, employees’ retirement benefits are at far greater risk, and a terrible precedent will be set that co ...
USPS Third Quarter: The Good, Bad, And The To-Be-Determined (From FEDweek) On August 8, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced another large, predictable financial loss of $1.7 billion for its third quarter ended June 30 and $5.2 billion for the year-to-date. This was supposed to be the year USPS broke even or was even mode ...
The Enigma Of Measuring Postal Service Delivery Time Performance (Lexington Institute Report) Read the full study as a PDF here. In recent years, there has been immense public frustration with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), mail delivery times, and overall service performance. Much of this is within USPS’s control, though some of it is not. Th ...
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