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With more than 19,000 locations across the country, theAmerican postal service (USPS) has a large network and a route structure for its operators. Whether you understand on the email service to deliver your invoices, postcards or packages, the agency is legally obliged to deliver you, no matter where you live. But recently, the USPS has faced serious criticism in the midst of financial misfortunes and staff shortages, and a 10 -year reform plan was put in place to rationalize operations. An element of this plan was announced earlier this week, which could affect your local route. Read the rest to find out which closures are on the backrest and how they could affect the delivery speed to your mailbox.

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In addition to aflow of changes That the USPS has introduced this year, including slower delivery rates and the increase in shipping costs - the postal service has been criticized for an alleged illegal delivery practice. According to a request filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) by the Strategic Organization Center (SOC), the managers of USPS facilities enlist employees to "Prioritize Amazon packages on all other types of mail. ""

The SOC, which includes four unions, led aUSPS employees survey, with data indicating that workers had been invited to give preferences to Amazon packages. If the allegations are true, this would violate the agency's legal obligation not to give priority to a letter or to discriminate users. The SOC has requested access to an agreement between the USPS and Amazon, and if it is granted by the PRC, the organization intends to examine and file an official complaint, the request was indicated.

While the USPS faces criticism of the processes, it also strives to improve its operations, and future initiatives could affect your daily delivery.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

The 10 -year reform plan aims to reduce the costs of postal services while resulting in income, but what it also includes is the closure and consolidation of different USPS installations.

In an opening address at the National Postal Forum 2022 on May 16, Postmaster GeneralLouis Dejoyannounced the plans ofTransform the delivery network. To improve the workflow and operations, the agency plans to close several appendices which have been deemed "ineffective", operating as ad hoc operations which increase the costs and transport needs. According to DEJOY, this will affect nearly 100,000 transport routes, 10,000 delivery units, 500 mail treatment locations and 1,000 transfer centers.

As Federal News Network reported, Dejoy saidMail and packages are treated In a complicated, illogical, redundant and ineffective way ". The installations also do not have enough space or adequate equipment which can make it possible to implement new practices and operating measures, he declares.

"These delivery units are in ruins. They have poor employee equipment, have not adapted the growth of our packages and operate towards a dated and costly strategy," said Dejoy. "Dramatic changes are necessary, and a dramatic change is what we are continuing."

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After the closures, the new sorting and delivery centers will house various network operations. The USPS currently analyzes the factories that have already been closed, which will be modernized in accordance with the new strategy, said Dejoy.

"We will place large transport operations within our mail processing factories, considerably reducing transport, reducing mail managers, increasing reliability and decreasing delivery time," he said. These centers would be able to operate more effectively and contain more mail treatment equipment than existing locations.

This consolidation strategy will also make USPS "the preferred delivery supplier" for Americans, according to Dejoy. "We will have the greatest range and will be the most reliable and most affordable," he said. "We will also be the most environmentally friendly solution for shipping needs because we go in each house anyway."

According to Dejoy, changes in the national network and local operations will not be instantaneous. The plans will be deployed in the coming years, but with the addition of each new factory or a new delivery unit, Dejoy provides "immediate advantages on the scale of the system".

The closings and consolidations were not the only plans mentioned by DEJOY, because the USPS will also increase the automation of its package service and will integrate the volume of mail and package. This last initiative was mandated by the legislation on postal reform recently signed by the presidentJoe Biden, according to Federal News Network.

Dejoy said that the agency also carries "a lot of air" in addition to the packages, and the merger of global operations can improve the overall efficiency of transport.

"It is not an expansion of a network of packages," he said. “This is an increase in the use of what we are doing now to deliver the mail. In fact, we have the capacity to use fewer transport and fewer installations and fewer delivery units, and considerably increase the movement of the cube volume, which means mail and packages. ""

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