USPS will end the year with "a dramatic change", says the general postmaster
The news comes as the service brings in a loss of $ 6.5 billion in the past year.
Like any other company, the American postal service (USPS) had to adapt and develop as customers need change over time. But as an essential service, All changes On delivery, prices or operations, may have a disproportionate effect on the public which is based on it to send documents, carry out business and ship packages. Nor is it a secret that the email service has trouble keeping its net profit and has become more effective in recent years. But in a recent announcement, the post office in the United States said that the USP will end the year with "a dramatic change" in the midst of new difficulties. Read the rest to see what is in store and how you could be assigned.
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The USPS has just announced that it had a net loss of $ 6.5 billion last year.
During an open meeting of the postal service Board of Governors on November 14, the American post master Louis Dejoy announced that the USPS had finished exercise 2023 with a net loss of $ 6.5 billion . In his remarks, Dejoy noted that his previous promises that the service even breaks on its operating costs in the past year had been derailed by inflation.
"We are not satisfied with this result," said Dejoy.
The news comes a year after the USPS reported a Net income of $ 56 billion , Thanks to a unique financing influx of the adoption of the Postal Service Reform Act, reports Axios. This year's total turnover has also dropped, reducing 0.4% to $ 78.2 billion, while the mail volume increased from 127.4 million units to 116.1 million.
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Dejoy said the service would undergo "dramatic changes" to end the year.
In his announcement, Dejoy also said that the USPS was still in the first stages of its delivery plan for America to modernize operations. He remained confident that the planned changes would help Balance the finances of the service .
"We already provide more coherent, reliable and timely delivery to American companies and residences," said Dejoy in a press release. "We also approach short -term financial opposites compared to inflation while we are progressing in our long -term cost control strategies and generation of income."
But Dejoy also did not retain the challenges that awaited us in the USP to "develop his operations" and compete with private delivery companies.
"This requirement of a dramatic change in our operations and a dramatic change in our culture must be articulated and amplified throughout our workforce, throughout our surveillance entities and throughout America", He said during his briefing.
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The USPS will update treatment facilities, will deploy new vehicles and reduce costs.
Dejoy then described some of the changes that would take place during the coming year. The USPS plans to complete more than 20 modernized treatment facilities, close more than 40 "expensive" annexes and contracted installations and open nearly 100 sorting and delivery centers. The service will also run a fleet of around 30,000 new delivery vehicles, while aimed at reducing 28 million hours of work and developing its package activity by $ 1 billion.
"All this will be done with a calculation to maintain the disturbance of the service at least, but know that it is not a perfect science," admitted Dejoy. "The path to the success and the scope of the modifications that we are obliged to have a certain disturbance will invariably cause during a given week, in a given area, for a given service."
"However, I can assure the American people and our customers that we will respond quickly to correct the impacts to the service that could result from these complicated changes," he said.
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Some criticisms have rejected the news, especially in the light of other recently announced changes.
These are not the only USPS changes that customers can expect to see in the near future. On October 6, the service announced that it would request the approval of Increase the price of stamps Again, 66 cents at 68 cents on January 21, 2024. The change would mark a global 32% increase Over the past four years, against a price of 50 cents in early 2019, reports Reuters. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
But while some may see the costs increase and the changes necessary to achieve net profit, some criticisms called Dejoy's tactics . According to Kevin Yoder , Executive director of the Pleidoyer Organization on Business Mail will keep us informed, they could really hold the USPS.
"Hikes of shipping costs twice annually and greater than inflation aggravate the financial problems of the USPS and trap it in the fast sand, because even more mail is driven from the system," said Yoder in a statement, according to CBS News. "Dejoy should not receive more virgin checks from the congress to increase only port rates, reduce services and stimulate more debts."
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