Post Office Study Suggests USPS Can Save Money By Making Customer Service Even Worse
More Hyscience Aug 24, 2011, 4:58 pm
Right off the bat, let’s keep in mind that USPS may run out of money in just over a month.
Now with that in mind, according to a new study, the Post Office could save as much as $1.5 billion a year by cutting back on the quality of its service:
Think snail mail is too slow? Imagine if it got slower.
ervice could save about $1.5 billion a year if it relaxed its two-to-three-day delivery schedules for first-class and Priority Mail deliveries by a day, according to a new study.
Postal executives are seriously considering the idea and are expected to announce plans regarding delivery schedules after Labor Day, according to USPS officials.
Currently the Postal Service advises customers that first-class and Priority Mail deliveries will arrive, on average, in two or three days.
But relaxing the schedule by a day would cut about $336 million in premium pay for employees working overnight and Sundays to meet current delivery schedules, according to the study. Adding one day to the schedule would put less emphasis on speed and allow the USPS to save at least an additional $1.1 billion by delivering some long-haul Priority Mail shipments by ground instead of air, consolidating mail-processing facilities and employing fewer workers, the study said.Yeah, like that’ll work, right? Not!
Instead, why doesn’t the USPS convince Congress to allow it to be … Read the Rest
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- Description: Right off the bat, let’s keep in mind that USPS may run out of money in just over a month. Now with that in mind, according to a new study, the Post Office could save as much as $1.5 billion a year by cutting back on the quality of its service: Think snail mail is too slow? Imagine if it got slower. The U.S. Postal Service could save about $1.5
