Author Archives: Paul Steidler
Postal Service’s Strategic Plan Deserves Fair Hearing And Careful Study The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced a much anticipated and comprehensive 10-year strategic plan on March 23. It is a serious and important document that merits study and discussion among policy makers and postal stakeholders.
Like any thorough report about [Read More...]
Don’t Make The US Postal Service An Energy Policy Guinea Pig (From RealClearEnergy) The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is about to start making one of the world’s largest and most polluting fleets a whole lot cleaner. That is, unless environmental zealots, including some Members of Congress, derail things. USPS has 140,000 high-polluting vehicles [Read More...]
The Root Cause Of Mail Delays: Booming Package Volumes (Infographic) The root cause for historic mail delays at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is the high package volumes being handled. While Postmaster General Louis DeJoy instituted service directives last summer, these were in effect for just six weeks and ended [Read More...]
Postal Service Should Nix Plan To Further Slow Mail Delivery The Poor, Elderly, and Rural Americans Will Be Hit Hardest
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is reportedly considering a strategic plan that would severely erode the quality of first-class mail delivery, its most popular product with the American people. According [Read More...]
The Reckless Calls To Fire The Entire U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors In recent days, there have been reckless calls from the Editorial Board at USA Today and Congressmen Bill Pascrell and Tim Ryan for President Biden to fire six members of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors. This would compound [Read More...]
Congress Reintroduces USPS Reform Bill To Eliminate Pre-Funding Mandate (From Federal News Network) Lexington’s Paul Steidler was quoted in a Federal News Network story about the reintroduction of the USPS Fairness Act, a measure that would eliminate the Postal Service’s obligation to pre-fund retiree health benefits.
Steidler warned in a January 28 report [Read More...]
U.S. Postal Service Should Continue To Prefund Retiree Health Benefits Read the full report as a PDF here. Executive Summary
One of the biggest myths about the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is that its financial problems would be largely eliminated if it did not have to “prefund,” i.e., set aside [Read More...]
Fix Mail Delivery Through Transparency The abysmal decline in mail service at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has created significant hardships for millions of Americans. And the situation could get even worse: as of January 15, USPS is no longer under court order to report [Read More...]
Postal Service Gets Favorable Borrowing Terms In Stimulus Bill (From FreightWaves) Lexington’s Paul Steidler was quoted in a December 23rd FreightWaves article about the forgiveness of a $10 billion loan to the Postal Service as part of the COVID-19 stimulus and government funding bill passed by Congress that month. Once the [Read More...]
Beware Of Politicians Trying To Rescue You From Technology Companies (From RealClearMarkets) During the pandemic America’s large technology companies have been critical to the economy while providing significant health and safety benefits. If America did not have the services of our large technology companies, we would hear calls for the government to [Read More...]