Author Archives: Paul Steidler
Why We Should Watch The Electric Grid Blow Up
For years, a bevy of national security, cybersecurity, energy, and other experts in important government agencies have strongly and clearly warned about the cataclysmic dangers facing America from cyberattacks on the electric grid. Hostile nation-states and others could wipe out [Read More...]
Biden And The Postal Service: Why Conciliation Trumps Combat
Joe Biden and his likely incoming administration must make a basic decision about how they will deal with the large and financially troubled U.S. Postal Service (USPS).
Option one is to continue, even accelerate, House Democrats’ policy of belligerence toward [Read More...]
Mail-In Ballots: What Matters Most Tonight
Read as a PDF here.
The U.S. Postal Service reported that on November 2 it delivered 89.59% of ballots on time to election officials. These figures have been reported daily since October 24 to the U.S. District Court for the [Read More...]
Big Data Essential For Oil & Gas Industry To Become Cleaner (From RealClearEnergy)
The oil and gas industry has a long track record of making its operations cleaner and more efficient. By unleashing information technology, data analytics, and related cloud storage throughout operations, progress can be accelerated in these areas. This will benefit [Read More...]
First-Class Mail Service is Awful, Admitted Postal Service Late Friday
Read as a PDF here.
One of the oldest tricks in Washington, D.C. is to put out bad news late on a Friday in the hopes it will be missed. And the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) did just that when [Read More...]
AED: The Big Postal Issue That Needs More Attention
For all the political controversy surrounding the U.S. Postal Service in recent months, there is one issue on which Democrats, Republicans and Independents should be able to come together: the need to better track packages from overseas so that opioids [Read More...]
Champion Energy Storage For Improved Grid Reliability
Energy storage is often touted as integral for promoting renewable power generation and thus saving the planet from climate change. But energy storage, particularly at the utility level, can also significantly strengthen the electric grid’s reliability.
Advocates for energy storage [Read More...]
U.S. Postal Service’s Detour Decade: First-Class Mail Plummets, Package Volume Spikes (Infographic)
Even before this summer’s mail delays, first-class mail service had been sharply deteriorating. Today, it takes close to a day longer to deliver a letter than it did in 2012. The key reasons for this are the U.S. Postal Service [Read More...]
U.S. Postal Service’s Detour Decade: First-Class Mail Plummets, Package Volume Spikes
Read the full report as a PDF here.
Executive Summary
The U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) mail delivery standards and performance are under intense scrutiny as the election approaches and it recovers from a summer disruption.
First-class mail delivered on time [Read More...]
House Acting On Nonpartisan Postmaster General Act
The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee will be doing something today it has not done in this session of Congress: marking up, that is acting on, a piece of legislation specific to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). [Read More...]