POLL: Postal Service Delivers Drastic Changes
Facing bankruptcy, the U.S. Postal Service is planning to close post offices and processing centers, which could result in slower delivery times.
An estimated $3 billion in U.S. Postal Service reductions is expected to create delivery delays for the first time in decades. Details of the wide-sweeping changes, which are expected to include closing 3,700 local post offices and cutting 100,000 employees, are expected to be released today, The Huffington Post reported. Saturday delivery, which has been in question as the postal service faces bankruptcy, will remain for at least two years. The cuts would reportedly close roughly 250 of the nearly 500 mail processing centers across the country as early as next March. Because the consolidations would increase the distance mail travels from post office to processing centers, the agency also would lower delivery standards that have been in …
UglyHat
12:04 pm on Thursday, December 8, 2011
I still get multiple deliveries per day (sometimes 3 or 4 at Christmas). They just come from multiple parcel delivery services. Most if not all, operating more efficiently than the USPS. more ›