When we think of mailing costs, we usually think of the costs associated with outbound mail. These might include printing, folding, inserting and postage. However, there are also costs associated with the process of receiving and distributing incoming mail.
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Mailstream On Demand Pitney Bowes. Business shipping and mailing services Pitney Bowes Three ways to improve mail center efficiencies Here are three effective ways to leverage new technologies to help maximize time and output at your mail center. Think Again. We have lots of holidays that give the general public a chance to mail a card, however, due to electronic cards that are available through email, that has definitely decreased card sending.
I think we should create something through the post office such as; "National Send a Card Week," to someone you care about, or letter. We have crazy things like "sweetest day, secretaties day, boss's day, which are all great reasons to buy a card, but just something like that might hit home to alot of people.
Hey, "retro" is back in a big way. Let's make sending a card or letter versus emailing some sort of "retro campaign. A child has to bring. I know I look forward to the class that comes into our post office. Get the word out to daycare centers. I hope these simple but fun ideas could help in some way. CSA staff meetings, incentive's, whatever it takes.
Some of the clerks working the windows out there are a disgrace to the USPS. Customer service is the lifeline to a business. Have a great day. Use internet more effectively and stop leasing buildings. Significantly increase the rate for bulk mail. Companies send out so much bulk mail that they should contribute to the financial situation. I receive so much of it that a rate increase would yield additonal revenue.
End Saturday delivery. Who needs mail on Saturday? The work week is Monday-Friday Stop leasing buildings. The USPS is just paying for their buildings over and over again by leasing. Wasted money. These offices have no rural delivery and have other post offices in very close proximity for people to use. I'm sure the unions would not go for this, but, selling advertising space on postal vehicles will solve ALL the financial problems.
Postal vehicles are on the streets four to six hours a day and prime placement for advertising. Also, cross promotions would make it more productive. For example, a "Green" energy company. USPS could promote the energy company on the side of the vehicles saying "we are environmentally conscious and use Green energy" and the energy company can promote their service by saying "we supply Green energy to the USPS".
Plus, it would benefit the environment and save money on energy bills. Win, win. My first idea is to make all routes evaluated route times. There are far too many carriers milking their time to get into overtime or just to get more time than their route actually takes.
If you evaluate the time, I guarantee they will get the route done within and in most cases in less time than the evaluated time. Case in point, a carrier may take eight and a half to nine hours to do a route on any given day.
But, come Christmas eve, that route is done in six hours or less. Eliminate district staff. I am a lower level manager and I complete reports on the computer on time. The district staff person in charge sends out an e mail to remind me to do it on time. I explain anything "unusual" in the comments section when I submit the report.
Then the person who sent the e mail calls and asks "why" instead of reading the comments. They then take this information and e mail to my MPOO who e mails it back to me to explain with instructions to copy the person who called me. I explain usually with the exact same words I put on the original computer comments e-mail back to the MPOO and the district assignee.
The next day I receive a consolidated report for the district with my comments again. I'm sure this district assignee to this project has no other function than this. This is only one example. One other staffer prepares a spreadsheet for this and another for that.
Some we don't know what they do. They should be given the vacant EAS jobs instead of posting them. NPA has killed the Post Office. All of the programs that "measure" whether or not the upper level managers district level get merit bonuses.
I am a Postmaster in the Alabama district and we chase our tails on a daily basis for the never ending EXFC measurement--the one that measures nothing. Nothing of any value anyway. If a carrier has a flat tire and misses dispatch, their collection mail must be transported to the plant--possibly miles round trip. Many other items fall into the "NPA trap" costing the USPS money all under the guise of service while really just an excuse to line the pockets of of the district manager.
Most all of the problems the USPS faces could be solved with common sense--if we had any. I think one of the reasons why people are going electronic more than using a stamp and an envelope is because there are no mailboxes ANYWHERE in our communities. Used to be you would find a mailbox to put your letters in within at least a half a mile of home.
Therefore, I don't think its a coincidence that USPS business and revenue are going down when to mail a letter not wanting to mail it from home mailbox because of vandals and identity thieves is much, much more difficult. I'd go so far as to say that USPS has made themselves most un-user friendly as a result. Reinventing the community drop off boxes to make them secure and readily available would be a contribution to resolving several problems in the U.
For example, people might find it GREAT to get outside of the house and enjoy getting away from the electronic addiction e. This would save pollution from the generation of electricity. Encouraging people to walk to the nearest letter drop would also contribute to many Americans' need to burn a few calories on the walk to the mailbox, thereby contributing to the reduction of the obesity epidemic in the U.
All in all, I believe the USPS should use the "Better for Environment" strategy rather than succumb to the foregone conclusion that people would prefer to "pay online. Not just for the USPS, but for all the places that need a warm body to post the checks to the accounts. Yes, there will always be kooks in the world that ruin it for the rest of us, but I believe that if the USPS made themselves more user friendly, the organization would not be where it is today. See what that did to your revenue to convince yourself that you need to go back and review whether that wasn't what started the "online" phenomenon.
Thank you for putting up this forum, and for asking for comments. The following are money saving ideas for USPS: 1. No Saturday delivery. As with city, county, offices, what cant get done on Saturday gets done Mon - Fri always.
Curbside service only: Forget door to door delivery. These are modern times and driving past a box to deliver is way more effective with less staff. If residents do not like putting up a box ion front of their home, what about a set of locked boxes at the start of each neighborhood like used in apartment complexes and some gated communities?
If a package is sent requiring the receiver to sign for the package, don't atttempt delivery, just leave a note in their box telling them where to pick it up and sign for it. Nobody is ever home these days. Like in so many states, require postal workers to take a few days of staggered furlough without pay. Hey, better than no job at all or fully lowering wages across the board, right?
Contract more delivery routes out to private contractors in the civilian population. Require excellent performance to get a pay raise not just that time in grade has passed, Heh, in the real world, many of us have not seen a pay raise in 2 years but at least we still have a job and we are thankful.
This week — on Thursday, November 11 — the nation will collectively pay tribute to the more than 41 million Americans who have served our country throughout its history. According to The U. Postal Service, like many other companies, has a seasonal uptick in business. Britain opened postal markets to competition in and privatized the Royal Mail with share offerings in and Germany began privatizing Deutsche Post with a stock offering in and opened its postal markets to competition in However, European postal markets are no nirvana.
They face the same challenges as the U. But traditional postal firms universal service providers or USPs are making large changes. A report by the European Commission about the continent's postal markets found: Most European letter markets still have high USP market shares, but competition is growing. The Commission report noted, "the high concentration in the addressed letter market is declining. In , in eight countries at least 15 per cent of the postal market was comprised by non-USP postal operators.
At least six out of these eight countries had end-to-end competition" An example of a private competitor to a USP is CityMail in Sweden, which delivers mail to more than half of the nation's households every third day. Most branches are in other businesses. Postal and delivery markets are changing rapidly, and private companies have more flexibility than government bureaucracies to deal with the new challenges. With the rise of the Internet, the claim that mail is a natural monopoly needing special protection is weaker than ever.
The USPS has suffered huge declines in demand for its most profitable product, first-class mail. In a similar situation, private businesses would try to change direction and enter new markets. In Europe, traditional postal companies are expanding into parcel and express services. The Commission report found, "to compensate for lower scale economies, postal operators have made the pursuit of economies of scope as a key target.
That makes sense for the competitive environment of Europe. But for the USPS, it cannot diversify as freely as private businesses can, nor would we want the USPS entering other industries and unfairly competing with private businesses.
As a tax-free entity, it would be distortionary for the USPS to enter, say, banking or grocery delivery. The way to solve the dilemma is to open postal markets, privatize the USPS, and allow it to compete freely. In recent years, the USPS has contracted out an increasing share of intermediate processing and transportation activities to private providers. The logical next step is to fully privatize the USPS and provide it with more flexibility to meet the challenges ahead.
The Trump administration's reform proposal argued, "a privatized Postal Service would have a substantially lower cost structure, be able to adapt to changing customer needs and make business decisions free from political interference, and have access to private capital markets to fund operational improvements without burdening taxpayers.
The private operation would be incentivized to innovate and improve services to Americans in every community. In a report, the GAO found that most of the postal experts interviewed said that relaxing USPS monopolies "could induce USPS to become more efficient and increase innovation across the postal market. Privatization would also improve corporate governance. There are currently just two of nine appointed positions filled.
This situation is typical of Washington dysfunction these days, which is unlikely to improve any time soon. Another common failure of federal business ownership is underfunded capital investment. The USPS's low cash flow is forcing it to defer needed investment.
That pattern is also evident with Amtrak and our air traffic control system. The administration Task Force noted that the USPS is hamstrung in making necessary investments and that "projected liquidity constraints limit its ability to compete with the private sector in the development and implementation of new delivery technologies. A privatized USPS would pay federal, state, and local taxes. Members of Congress often express concern when major companies do not pay taxes.
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