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Postal service this year: Slower mail, higher prices?
Postal carrier Josiah Morse heads out to deliver mail and packages, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in Portland, Maine. The U.S. Postal Service s stretch of challenges didn t end with the November general election and tens of millions of mail-in votes. The pandemic-depleted workforce fell further into a hole during the holiday rush, leading to long hours and a mountain of delayed mail. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Published February 13. 2021 12:05AM | Updated February 13. 2021 12:13AM
Jacob Bogage and Hannah Denham, The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is preparing to put all first-class mail onto a single delivery track, according to two people briefed on his strategic plan for the U.S. Postal Service, a move that would mean slower and more costly delivery for both consumers and commercial mailers.
Print article WASHINGTON - Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is preparing to put all first-class mail onto a single delivery track, according to two people briefed on his strategic plan for the U.S. Postal Service, a move that would mean slower and more costly delivery for both consumers and commercial mailers. DeJoy, with the backing of the agency’s bipartisan but Trump-appointed governing board, has discussed plans to eliminate a tier of first-class mail - letters, bills and other envelope-sized correspondence sent to a local address - designated for delivery in two days. Instead, all first-class mail would be lumped into the same three- to five-day window, the current benchmark for nonlocal mail.
The Postal Service Survived the Election. But It Was Crushed by Holiday Packages.
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Early in the pandemic last spring, hard-hit parts of the U.S. Postal Service struggled to process mail on time.
Then new leadership made changes in July that slowed the mail and raised fears of delays ahead of the election.
Neither of those disruptions compared with what happened in December. Note: Includes three of the seven Postal Service regions. Region definitions can be found here. Source: United States Postal Service In December, amid a crush of packages and record numbers of coronavirus cases, service performance across the U.S. Postal Service network plummeted to the lowest levels in years, with only about 64 percent of first-class mail delivered on time around Christmas.
Tovia Smith | NPR
If you re the type to be disappointed by what s under the Christmas tree, this year you may find yourself even more dismayed by what s not under the tree. Millions of gifts may arrive late, as the U.S. Postal Service grapples with an unprecedented volume of packages from people shopping online, instead of at stores, and shipping holiday gifts instead of bringing them in person. We re really busy. It s been unbearable, sighed Manny Huenchunir, a Postal Service truck driver who was unloading and reloading crates of mail at a post office outside Boston on Tuesday night. The main Boston processing center, he says, is overwhelmed.