Tag: USPS

Postal Service Says its Trying to Re-distribute Fedex Mail Load

Posted by | Oct 9, 2002 | |

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the amount of U.S. mail carried by FedEx Express has nearly doubled and service has improved, but the Postal Service continues to work to get mail back on commercial airlines. This means trucks are carrying 50 percent of the mail volume, while FedEx and commercial airlines evenly split the remainder. However, since the terrorist attacks, security concerns have restricted the cargo that airlines can carry, including mail.

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USPS Postmaster Potter says next rate hike will be "well into" 2004

Posted by | Oct 3, 2002 | |

With the United States Postal Service predicting a $600M profit for FY2003 and Postmaster General John Potter saying that the next postal increase will not be implemented until “well into”

With the United States Postal Service predicting a $600M profit for FY2003 and Postmaster General John Potter saying that the next postal increase

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Time Inc. Speaker Says USPS in Decline

Posted by | Sep 27, 2002 | |

The U.S. Postal Service is entering a death spiral of declining revenue, rising expenses and rapidly escalating rates, attendees of the New England Mail Order Association Fall 2002 Conference were told yesterday. Jim O’Brien, director of distribution & postal affairs at Time Inc., New York, delivered the sobering thought at the postal reform session.

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US Post Office Continues to Cut Costs

Posted by | Sep 27, 2002 | |

The US Postal Service is continuing its program of cost-cutting and is searching for new products to offer, Postmaster General John Potter said Friday. Potter said his agency is considering consolidating some of the approximately 300 mail processing centers across the country because improved efficiency and lower mail volume means some are underused.

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Post Office gives up on germ zapping machinery

Posted by | Sep 24, 2002 | |

A year after the anthrax-by-mail crisis, the U.S. Postal Service has abandoned its plans of installing expensive electron-beam devices in many mail sorting facilities to zap harmful bacteria.

The agency says it has since shifted its goal toward finding hand-held devices that would allow postal carriers to detect harmful materials, much the way a Geiger counter detects radiation.

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