"No end in sight" at USPS price increases, the former treasurer warns
"We were not told when it stops," said the treasurer and vice-president of the ex-USPs.
At this point, price increases are not new for the American postal service (USPS). More recently, on July 9, the agency increased the price first -class 5.4% mail and resulted in the cost of the stamp forever from 63 cents to 66 cents. It was in addition to an increase in January, which had brought the price of the stamp from 60 cents to 63 cents, as well as the price of several shipping services. These biannual increases are part of a current plan - And customers should not expect them to let go soon. In fact, the former USPS treasurer and price vice-president Steve Kearney said there is "no end in sight" to these price increases. Read more to find out why your mail costs can continue.
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Regular price increases are part of a larger plan.
Post Louis Dejoy previously discussed the price increase in an interview last year, in which he said that the Americans should prepare for prices to continue to increase Uncomfortable rate . In a more recent interview with Federal News Network, Dejoy spoke of prices again, arguing that hikes are necessary.
"I would be careful not to use our price authority , "Dejoy said at the exit." It is not my job to subsidize products that cannot afford the price of a stamp. ""
Increasing costs is intended to help USPS become more financially stable, as part of the 10 -year delivery plan for America (DFA), which was created in 2021. But this income is supposed to be useful, Kearney, who is now executive director of the alliance of the biggest non -profit customers, warns that the current increases are painful for some of the largest customers of the agency.
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Price increases do not seem to have an end.
The average American certainly feels pain when he is going to buy a book of stamps which continues to become more and more expensive. But these prices become even more exorbitant for organizations based on the postal service for larger commercial operations.
THE Alliance of non -profit sender Help non -profit organizations in preserving access to affordable mail services - and according to Kearney, they also wonder when these hikes end.
"There are a lot of discussions between sender that they are forced to reduce their volume of mail, and some make major strategic movements and only because of what has happened so far, but because there is simply no end in sight," Kearney told Federal News Network. "We didn't tell us when it stops." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Steve Schiavone , Director of the printed supply chain at Consumer Reports, added that to attract new subscribers, the non -profit organization reduces its direct mail program, because "it becomes more and more expensive". Schiavone noted that shipping costs represent more than half of the magazine's costs.
Schiavone also argued that demand is decreasing as these prices were upwards - and he hopes that the Governors' Council of the USPS (the agency’s director) finally intervenes to say: "It's crazy". He added: "The impression is fragile and you mainly kill any volume."
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This is not all bad news.
While Schiavone had a few criticisms on prices, he also told the Federal News Network that he had noticed an increase in deliveries in time.
"I saw better delivery since last December that I have not seen in my 20 years here," he said. "I say that at the national level. At the local level, there have been people who have problems with deliveries. But I say that if I gathered the way we look at delivery, for our marketing campaigns and our periodicals, they are very, very well."
This echoes the declarations of Dejoy, who said that 99% of the population receives mail and packages within three days. The first class mail is doing even better, the general post office noting that he is delivered a day before the scheduled date.
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Dejoy claims that complaints are "very, very small".
In his new interview, Dejoy also stressed that, since USPS no longer has a "monopoly", the delivery of mail is no longer as profitable as it was in the past. However, this aspect of the agency's affairs is its "functioning of life," he said.
Although he is not unrelated to criticism, Dejoy said that when the agency receives complaints concerning deliveries, they are more "distant" areas.
"The complaints we obtain are very, very small, but concentrated," said Dejoy to Federal News Network. "And it's important, we try to solve this problem. But it especially has the availability of work in these remote areas."
