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USPS adjusts first -class mail service standards, periodicals, marketing mail and package services.
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It will deliver 75% of first-class mail to the same standard of service, 14% will be upgraded to a faster standard, and 11% will have a slower standard, said the agency-but all will still be in the current range of 1-5 days.
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Changes are planned to save $ 36 billion over the next 10 years, USPS said.
Changes to US Postal Service standards have started this month in an attempt to provide a “more reliable service” for Americans.
With the new approach, most will receive their mail in the same window window, some will receive it faster and some slightly more slow.
Here’s what to know:
What we know
USPS said it was adjusting first -class mail service standards, periodicals, marketing mail and package services. It will deliver 75% of the first-class mail to the same standard of service, 14% will be upgraded to a faster standard, and 11% will have a slower standard, but all will still be in the current range of one to five days.
The main advantage of USPS from two to five days also remains the same, while the daily marketing mail range from end to end, periodicals and package services are shortened.
“The whole mail will benefit from a more reliable service,” the USPS press said.
You deeper
Postal workers will be allowed to send earlier and to go further distances in an attempt to improve “the reliability of the service and to allow critical growth of revenue”.
In addition, the mail tracking is already organized in three “legs”: leg 1 is the path from collection to origin, leg 2 is the path from processing origin to destination processing, and leg 3 is the path from the processing of the destination to the final delivery. These service standards only report leg 2, according to the agency – and new changes will reflect more precisely how the mail travels through the postal network.
Changes are planned to save $ 36 billion over the next 10 years “from transport, post office processing and reduction of real estate costs”.
Time line
USPS said these changes to the service standard will be implemented in two phases to “facilitate effective operational performance”, with the first already beginning on April 1 and the second on July 1.
A big view of the picture
USPS has been fighting financially in recent years and has been fighting calls from president Donald Trump And others that he is privatized. Postal General Luis Dejo, appointed during Trump’s first term in 2020, announced a 10-year turnover plan last year, but announced plans to withdraw in February and ask the Council of the Post Office managers to seek his heir.
On the numbers
After reorganization in 1970, the USPS was largely self -funded. The bigger part of his $ 78.5 billion annual budget comes from customer fees, according to the Congress Research Service. The Congress provides a relatively small annual budget loan-about $ 50 million in 2023-to subsidize free and reduced post office costs.
Against the backdrop of the challenges that include the decline in the winning first-class post office and the cost of retirement benefits, the post office accumulated $ 87 billion from 2007 to 2020. However, the service reported a $ 144 million profit in the last quarter, attributing it to the 10-year Dejoy plan for operations and losses. The service reported a net loss of $ 2.1 billion in the same quarter last year.
Currently, USPS are operating about 640,000 workers who are charged to deliver internal cities to rural areas and even the distant islands.
What they say
“By implementing the new standards and operational initiatives to which they are filed, we will be more capable of achieving the goals of our plans for modernization and to create a highly efficient, financially sustainable organization that is necessary to achieve legal policies and goals designed for the post office by law,” the statement said.
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What you can do
USPS is also realized A new card of service standards that customers can use To find out the forecast times of sending from one postcode to the next. Search results show the expected delivery dates based on which postal services it is used.
Source
This story was reported using information provided by the US Post Office on February 26, 2025. It was reported by Cincinnati and the Associated Press contributed.