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The Postal Service should drop its e-commerce initiatives and spend its resources strictly on mail delivery, the President’s Commission on the U.S. Postal Service has concluded in a new report.

The commission also suggested the Postal Service consider outsourcing its IT management along with other high-cost functions, such as real estate management and vehicle maintenance.

The report, released last week, said USPS e-commerce ventures have produced largely disappointing results and drained time and resources that could have been spent improving traditional postal services.

A presidential commission recommended a series of changes to the U.S. Postal Service, including expanding efforts to move basic postal services out of traditional post offices and into banks, groceries or drug stores.

In a 181-page report, passed after eight months of research, the commission suggests that once basic services become available elsewhere, the Postal Service should be able to reassess whether or not smaller offices are still necessary to fulfill the obligation each facility provides for its region. If not, according to the report, the Postal Service should be able to do away with an office as it sees fit.