USPS goes ahead with controversial changes: "We don't take a break"
The post owner, Louis Dejoy, has published a new update on his modernization efforts.
Most of us trust the American postal service (USPS) to Get our mail From one place to another without considering how complicated this process can be. The USPS works via a complex system of treatment and distribution facilities to move mail throughout the country. And in recent years, the process has undergone serious changes, as a general postmaster Louis Dejoy Works in its USPS redesign for a decade, Deliver for America (DFA). With this plan, Dejoy tries to modernize the postal network by shifting the movement of mail and packages - something that not everyone is on board. But that does not seem to stop the postal service, because the agency has announced its intention to move forward despite major opposition. Read the rest to find out more about the changes that the USPS is "not to stop".
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USPS tries to consolidate its network.
An important part of the DFA plan of Dejoy is focused on consolidating the country's postal network. As explained by the office of the USPS Inspector General (OIG) new network will include three types of installation couriers: regional treatment and distribution centers (RPDC), local treatment centers (LPC) and sorting and delivery centers (S & DC).
As part of the DFA, the USPS plans to convert numerous postal treatment and distribution facilities to smaller LPC communities, reducing some of their functions and transferring them to more centralized RPDCs. The agency seeks to have 60 RPDCS Through the continental United States, each of these 60 regions being supported by a number of different LPC and S & DC.
Overall, the postal service estimates that this consolidation effort will lead to "cost savings, reliable services, renewed relevance and longevity" for the agency.
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The legislators asked the agency to suspend these efforts.
However, not everyone is sure that this consolidation initiative is a good thing. A bipartite group of 26 American senators sent a letter At the USPS on May 8, calling on the agency to take a break by making other modifications to its treatment and delivery network until the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) can examine the "potential impacts of these changes".
The letter was led by the Michigan senator Gary Peters , who is chairman of the senatorial committee for internal security and government affairs.
"In regions where the USPS has implemented significant changes, mail delivery to purposes has decreased. In addition, it is not clear that these changes will improve efficiency or costs," said the letter . "Despite these concerns, the USPS has progressed by announcing and approving additional changes in the facilities across the country. The nature of these changes creates concerns that the local and rural service could be degraded."
Senators have said that USP should request a complete advisory opinion from the PRC and "on break all changes, including administrative approvals and changes in the field, until the RPC finishes this study and that the USPS integrates the results ".
"While the USPS claims that these changes will overall improve the service while reducing costs, there is contrary evidence in places where the USPS has implemented changes so far," also noted senators in their letter.
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The USPS has agreed to stop some of its plans.
One day, after the senators sent their letter, Dejoy replied to respond to their concerns. In his May 9 letter Assisted by Senator Peters, the general post office said that he "would agree to take a break" some of the changes provided for the agency's processing operations until January 1, 2025. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"Even then, we will not make these efforts progress without advising you from our plans to do so, and only at a moderate implementation rate," wrote Dejoy. "I will also continue to determine whether we have to request an advisory opinion from the PRC as a discretionary affair on our part."
But Dejoy now says that they will move forward with certain controversial changes.
It seems that USPs do not put an end to all its consolidation efforts. May 20, Dejoy sent another letter in Peters, promoting the clarification of the agency " continuous activity On regional treatment and distribution centers, sorting and delivery centers and local treatment centers. ""
According to DEJOY, the USPS interrupts the movement of processing operations associated with mail treatment journals (MPFR) for the rest of this year. Until now, the agency has examined nearly 60 installations to determine whether whether to move some of their mail operations and their volume in regional centers. But in response to the concerns of senators, Dejoy agreed not to implement operational transfers decided by the MPFR before the start of next year, as soon as possible.
At the same time, the USPS continues with other consolidation efforts in 2024. These include the completion of several RPDC and LPC which have already been launched. Currently, there are 13 current RPDC projects and 20 LPC projects in progress, according to Dejoy's letter.
"Almost all these RPDC and LPC installations for which we do not take an implementation break are existing and operating," said Dejoy. "The work in which we engage with these initiatives is to catch up with 20 years of delayed maintenance, upgrading of 30 years, to install modern sorting equipment and to reorganize our disposition on the production stage To logically adapt to the difference between the size of a letter and the size of a package.
In a separate declaration accompanying the new letter, the general post office also defended the changes that he did not plan to take a break within the framework of his 10 -year overhaul.
"Our initiatives for the delivery plan for America breathe a new life in the American postal service. Despite obvious progress, it is clear that these efforts should have started more than ten years ago," he said. "The need for a rapid and complete transformation of the postal service is undeniable. We remain fully engaged in this transformation in order to continuously improve the performance of services for the American people - while being financially self -durable."
