USPS gets rid of this service, from July 10
The agency abandons one of its shipping options for customers.
From the mail, you goRecover in your mailbox Each day, with free tests you have obtained from the federal government, the American postal service (USPS) continued to serve customers across the country in several ways. But as is the case for all other sector, the postal agencywas touched With a number of challenges in recent years, including staff shortages and budget cuts - which have been still exacerbated by the cocovio pandemic. This meant regular adaptation, price increases to policy changes, designed to make things happen. Now the postal service has announced its intention to end another of its services this summer. Read the rest to discover what the USPS gets rid of in July.
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The postal service has slowed down delivery times and increased costs this year.
The postal service has made a number of changes to its service in the past year only. In October 2021, the agency implementedNew service standards For some letters, slowing considerably as long as delivery is needed. Then earlier this month, the USPS implementedTwo new shipping costs, increase customer prices to send specific packages. Updates have not stopped there, however: postal service has already announced other modifications to further slow down delivery times and further increase costs this summer.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
The agency now ends one of its shipping services.
You might become more uncertainShipping of fragile packages With usps soon,Linn stamp news reported on April 27. According to the magazine, aAvision of April 20 From the federal register confirmed that the postal agency planned to get rid of its special fragile manipulation service this summer. The postal service should make this change on July 10.
"For those who want the USPS to be everything for everyone, it is probably an unwanted development", "Michael Plunkett, president of the Association of Postal Commerce, saidLinn stamp news. "But the strategy involves choices, and the ability to cope with gaps indicates maturity and solid reasoning."
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This shipping option has received mixed customers' criticisms.
Postal servicesSpecial handling The service has been implemented in order to provide "additional care" for certain packages such as those, in particular "plants, animals and sensitive objects and goods", according to the agency. Customers can currently buy the shipping option in a post office for additional costs of $ 12.15, and their package is marked with a "special manipulation" label of the USPS.
But the implementation of the fragile handling service for the postal service has received its just part of mixed criticisms of customers over the years. In 2015, sellersIn an Etsy forum noted that they were able to write "fragile" on their packages or to use non -purchased stickers, and they were not additional billed for a meticulous manipulation service even if they thought they were receiving it . Others said that regardless of the labels used on a box, there did not seem to be special care provided. Even the postal service notes on its website that the service "does not provide articles against loss or damage".
The postal service confirmed that the service was incoherent.
According toFederal registerNote, the postal service decision to put an end to its special delivery option of fragile manipulation comes after a survey revealed that "operational procedures do not support preferential management" of the items shipped with this service.
"The postal service continues to strive to build and maintain a faithful relationship with its customers and provide products with integrity," said the opinion. "However, with the execution gaps that currently exist with a fragile special manipulation, the postal service considers that it is in the best interest of ceasing the special manipulation-fragi service."
However, the only exception at the end of this service is for living animals. According to Federal register Note, the prohibition of fragile articles will not affect these shipments under its provisions for a dangerous, restricted and perishable letter. "I prefer not to think about the reason why he will always be sure to send living animals via a network in which porcelain is in danger, and rather celebrate postal service to make an affirmative decision to stop a service that he cannot provide satisfactorily, "said Plunkett Linn stamp news .
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