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Have you experienced long lines in your local or treating office with your local post officefrustrating delivery delay? These problems are largely the result of the American postal services (USPS) service under the weight of major financial problems that have increased in recent years and have only been exacerbated by the cocovid pandemic. The crisis is so disastrous that the agency has published a 10 -year plan calledDelivered for America (DFA) In March 2021 to try to get back on the right track and in April this year, the presidentJoe Biden signThe law on postal services reform To provide nearly $ 50 billion in USPS alternatives over the next decade. However, this might not be enough, as a general post officeLouis Dejoy I have just revealed that the agency must soon make "more aggressive" changes to its services. Read the rest to discover what the USPS is preparing to do.

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The financial difficulties of the postal service led the agency to make several changes this year. In April, the USPS presented twoNew shipping overloads For non -standard packages. This was followed by another price increase shortly after, when the agencyPrice of first -class mail increased 6.5% on July 10.

Postal service tooslow down the delivery time For almost a third of its small light packages by introducing new service standards for its first class packages in May, after the agency had already slowed the shipping speeds in October 2021.

But if you think that the agency's adjustments ended there, think again.

If you already have the impression of paying too much for USPS services due to previous price increases, you will not want to hear this. During a public meeting with the Governors' Council of the USPS on August 9, the post office said thatHe believes the agency Must make "more aggressive" changes to its price structure in the future.

"For this reason, my recommendation to governors will be to stay on the right track to increase prices in January," said Dejoy. Last January, the USPSIncrease in shipping prices about 3.1%.

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Dejoy was appointed for the first time by the Council of Governors of the USPS as a post office in 2020, under the administration of the former presidentDonald Trump. At the time, the agency was to lose $ 160 billion over the next 10 years, according to Dejoy. But while the general post office said that the current financial results of the USPS "showed an improvement", he noted that without "immediate and substantial action", the postal service still considers around 60 to 70 billion Dollars of losses during the same period.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"All stakeholders must realize that each day lost in the execution of our strategy will consume money and will end up accumulating a cash deficit which will require more aggressive actions on the part of us or government Federal, "said Dejoy at the meeting of August 9.

During the meeting, the USPS financial directorJoe Corbett said the agency remains "in a financial hole", but it does not seem to be part of the same current problem. According to Dejoy, the agency now also deals with "rigid inflationary pressure". The Associated Press reported on August 10 thatWhile inflation has fallen Since its 40 -year summit of a record for an increase in the consumer price index (IPC) of 9.1% in June, it was still high in July to an increase in the IPC by 8, 5% compared to the previous year.

"As everyone knows, inflation has reached the country harshly and postal service has not avoided its impact. We expect inflation to exceed our expectations of more than a billion dollars compared to In our budget planned in 2022, "said Dejoy, noting that this is the main reason, he recommends another price increase for January 2022.

The general post office added: "We have to face the reality of our financial situation and the impact inflation on our improvement strategies."