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Huge Stakes For U.S. Postal Service This Holiday Season Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is leading an upbeat, audacious charge from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) for the holiday season, also known as peak season. “We’re going to kill it,” he told The Wall Street Journal in outlining numerous investments and ...
Remarks Of Paul Steidler To U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors November 10, 2021 Meeting Thank you for the opportunity to be here today. Thank you to Postmaster General DeJoy, Chairman Bloom, and all the Board members for your service. You do a great deal of work and frankly do not get compensated fairly for it. T ...
Drug Cartels Are Poisoning America, Data Analytics Can Stop Them (From The National Interest) The opioid epidemic continues to ravage America. In 2020, 69,710 Americans died from opioid overdoses, up 49 percent from 2018. There is no indication this epidemic is subsiding; rather it appears to be getting worse. Illegal opioids are readily availa ...
Mail Delays: Three Principles For Congress To Fix It Is the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) going to get away with it? On October 1, 2021, USPS reduced first-class mail delivery standards ensuring mail service will be slower than it has been since the 1970s. Senior citizens, rural Americans, and the poor are ...
Postal Banking Is Harmful And Unnecessary (From InsideSources) On October 4, three days after the U.S. Postal Service implemented degraded standards for first-class mail, ensuring delivery will be slower than in the 1970s, it announced it was getting into a new business: check cashing. The experimental service is ...
Repeating Failure: Mail Standards Degraded For The Second Time In Seven Years Starting Friday, October 1, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will hold itself to lower mail delivery standards (i.e., longer delivery times), increasing the time it takes to deliver 39 percent of first-class mail. USPS did this just seven years ago and t ...
Only In Washington: Historically Slow Mail Delivery Rates Huge Grant (From RealClearMarkets) It will soon take longer to deliver mail than it did in the 1970s as the U.S. Postal Service officially slows delivery standards on Friday, October 1. Grants to the Postal Service – $10 billion from the December COVID package and $8 billion or so relat ...
Use Data Analytics In The War On Opioids (From InsideSources) Opioid deaths have spiked by 49 percent since 2018, with 69,710 Americans killed by opioids in 2020. Much needs to be done. While U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been intercepting and seizing much larger amounts of fentanyl at the Mexican ...
Sunday’s Mail Price Spike And Why It Really Matters On Sunday, August 29, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will raise prices an average of 6.8 percent on mail products and 8.8 percent on periodicals, such as community newspapers. This follows earlier increases on January 24, 2021, with most prices going u ...
Comments To Postal Regulatory Commission On Proposed Section 601 Regulations The Lexington Institute appreciates the opportunity to comment about regulations being considered for Section 601, which describes instances when letters may be carried out of the mail, or when the letter monopoly does not apply to a mailpiece. It is i ...