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theAmerican postal service (USPS) offers crucial services for Americans every day - even saying in the most remote places across the country. Since the agency is legally obliged to ensure that you receive your mail, no matter where you are located, unique challenges often occur. The shortages and budget cuts are aggravated by these problems, which has become more complex during the Pandemic COVID-19. In fact, the situation has become so disastrous that the presidentJoe Bidensigned a majorpostal reform bill In April 2022, providing nearly $ 50 billion in repair over the next 10 years. But while the USPS aims to maintain the proper functioning of the operations, on May 5, the postal agency issued a new warning. Read the rest to find out what the postal service said could be "uncomfortable" for customers.

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Mail delays were endemic due to the current difficulties of the USPS, but the agency implements strategies to help regain its place. Unfortunately, this directly affects delivery rates and prices.New service standards were announced in October 2021,to slow down The deadline to deliver you first -class letter and periodicals. And in April this year, twoNew shipping overloads have also been implemented: non-standard costs and dimension non-compliance costs, which have affected customers trying to ship to certain retail shops andcommercial mail.

This month, the postal agency announced that it would slow the delivery time for even more mail,extend the deadline by one to two days for almost a third ofSmall light packages. And now the USPS has yet another warning.

During a meeting with the Council of Governors of the USPS on May 5, general post officeLouis Dejoysaid the agency will continue to increase port rates in the coming years.

As Federal News Network reported, Dejoy said we should prepare to seeShipping costs are increasing at an "uncomfortable" rate. The Postal Service Governors' Commission is responsible for setting postage prices, reported the Associated Press, but Dejoy said he would bePricing Until the agency has "reached our goal of projecting a trajectory that shows us is independent".

"Although our price decisions are finally taken under the authority of the Council of Governors, in the short term, I will most likely plead for these increases," said Dejoy at the meeting. "I believe that we have been seriously damaged by at least 10 years of a defective pricing model, which cannot be satisfied with one or two annual price increases, especially in this inflationary environment."

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For the second quarter of exercise of 2022, the USPS declared a net loss of $ 639 million, said Federal News Network, which represents a sharp increase in relation to a net loss of $ 82 million for the same Period during the financial year 2021. However, during the third and fourth quarters of this exercise, the USPS provides that it will begin to see the savings caused by the law of reform of the postal services of Biden.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

The agency proposed to increase mail prices by around 6.5%, and if it is favorable by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), the modifications will be in force on July 10. Price of the first class mail stamp forever from 58 cents to 60 cents.

The USPS works at a 95%delivery rate, and at yesterday's meeting, Dejoy said that the agency was at a "strike distance" of this objective, Federal News Network reported. Currently, the agency takes an average of 2.7 days to deliver mail to you.

"This means that the delivery speed is on average as quickly as it was standard pre-countryic and pre-prime class changes-and before Louis Dejoy," he said, because around 87.9% Mail was delivered in time this quarter.

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