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The Enigma Of Measuring Postal Service Delivery Time Performance 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 is not. The driv ...
Keep the Postal Service Out Of The Alcohol Business (From InsideSources DC Journal) The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is facing formidable challenges these days and there are plenty of bad ideas on how to fix it. At the top of the list is H.R. 3721, legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would allow USPS to deliver beer, w ...
Biden Administration Derelict On Postal Nominations (From FEDweek) It is important to have checks and balances on the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), one of America’s largest and highest-profile federal agencies, and whose work impacts most Americans, most days of the week. It is surprising that the Bide ...
Comments To Postal Regulatory Commission On U.S. Postal Service Cost Attribution Docket The Lexington Institute urges the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to adopt changes in analytical principles (i.e., costing methodologies or cost models) and related regulations pertaining to cost attribution at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The re ...
Comments To Postal Regulatory Commission On Need For Public Inquiry Docket On U.S. Postal Service’s Delivering For America Plan The Lexington Institute opposes the U.S. Postal Service’s Motion for Reconsideration of Order No. 6488 (“USPS Motion”), filed in this docket on May 5, 2023. Moreover, the Lexington Institute strongly supports the Postal Regulatory Commission’s creation ...
U.S. Postal Service Board Should Promote Transparency And Independent Evaluations During today’s public comment period before the U.S. Postal Service’s Board of Governors, the Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler urged the Board to promote transparency and independent evaluations of the Postal Service. His remarks are below. The U.S. ...
The Imploding US Postal Service Bailout (From The Hill) When politicians overwhelmingly pass a massive federal bailout, taxpayers expect it will work. But Washington, D.C. is now so broken that even this can no longer be assumed. Exhibit A is the Postal Service Reform Act (PSRA), one of the few biparti ...
Postal Service Rescue Hype Gives Way To Auditing Realism The 2022 Postal Service Reform Act provided $107 billion in financial assistance to the chronically troubled U.S. Postal Service (USPS) although by law USPS has long been required to be self-supporting. Signed by President Biden on April 6, 2022, the a ...
Comments To Postal Regulatory Commission On Disclosure Of Postal Service Documents Used In Formulating International Postal Policy The Lexington Institute has examined international postal issues for 20 years and is a member of the U.S. Department of State’s International Postal and Delivery Services Advisory Committee. We were strong advocates for terminal dues reform adopted at ...
Give Postal Workers Tasers — For Their Safety And Ours (From InsideSources DC Journal) America’s rising, out-of-control crime wave is claiming a growing number of Postal Service workers as victims of robberies, beatings and even murder. It is time to fight back and arm at least some of them with tasers.  In bold and vicious ways, po ...
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