Louis DeJoy

Ford earns Postal Service’s latest EV contract

With all of the government-backed initiatives designed to boost electric vehicle adoption, is it any surprise that the nation’s largest federally backed fleet is leading the way?

Continuing its push to electrify more than 66,000 delivery vehicles by 2028 as part of its Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) initiative, the U.S. Postal Service this week announced the awarding of another major vehicle delivery contract.

Oshkosh Defense received the first — which initially included around 10,000...

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Postal Service posts net loss, small revenue gain in fiscal Q1

The U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported that revenue in its fiscal 2023 first quarter, which included the holiday season, rose 1% over year-earlier levels to $21.5 billion, while total volumes declined 4.8% to 1.7 billion pieces.

Shipping and packages revenue rose 2.4% to $8.8 billion, up from $8.637 billion in the year-earlier period. Shipping and package volume fell 3.5%, or 70 million pieces, compared with the same period a year ago.

The falloff reflects a continued drop in e-commerce...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/postal-service-posts-net-loss-small-revenue-gain-in-fiscal-q1

Postal Service OK’d to change parcel delivery standards

The U.S. Postal Service said Monday it has been greenlighted to change its service levels for long-distance parcel deliveries, a move that allows it to use more surface transportation and reduce its use of airfreight.

Effective May 1, nearly one-third of all first-class parcels will be delivered one to two days later than the current two- to three-day delivery windows, the Postal Service said. The time in transit will be based on delivery lengths, with a coast-to-coast move likely taking five...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/postal-service-okd-to-change-parcel-delivery-standards

Analysis: Can the Postal Service deliver on at-home COVID tests?

The White House chooses the Postal Service to deliver hundreds of millions of at-home COVID-19 test kits

Nothing ever really comes for free. “Free” food samples, credit appraisals, tarot card readings –– all of them incur costs somewhere down the line.

That includes COVID-19 tests. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that the U.S. government had launched a website to deliver free at-home COVID-19 rapid antigen tests via the U.S. Postal Service. But facing slowing delivery speeds and tens of thousands of omicron-infected workers, can the agency deliver?

According to Postmaster...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/analysis-can-the-postal-service-deliver-on-at-home-covid-tests

Biden’s Postal Service nominees could mean DeJoy ouster

President Joe Biden plans to replace two U.S. Postal Service board of governors members in a move Washington insiders say could be a potential first step to removing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

Derek Kan, an executive with warehouse and delivery startup Deliverr, would replace John Barger, according to a White House announcement on Friday. Kan previously served in the Trump administration in the Office of Management and Budget and as an undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Transportation...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bidens-postal-service-nominees-could-mean-dejoy-ouster

Postal Service reports $3 billion year-on-year loss

Shipping and package volume moved by the U.S. Postal Service declined by 14.1% year-on-year in its fiscal year 2021 third quarter as a surge in demand for package delivery services began to slow, the quasi-governmental agency said Friday.

Revenue for that sector of the Postal Service’s business also fell in the quarter compared to 2020, by $646 million, or 7.8%. Despite those decreases, its shipping and package volume is still higher than pre-pandemic levels.

“We believe consumer behavior has...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/postal-service-reports-3-billion-year-on-year-loss

Fix mail first, then address parcel-delivery opportunities, AGs tell Postal Service

Attorneys general from 21 states have called on the U.S. Postal Service’s regulator to direct the agency to abandon its plans to expand parcel-delivery operations until it resolves its persistent problems with first-class mail delivery.

In a June 21 letter to the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), the attorneys general said so-called market dominant products like first-class mail are, by law, the Postal Service’s top priority. Parcel services as well as Express and Priority Mail, all of which...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fix-mail-first-then-address-parcel-delivery-opportunities-ags-tell-postal-service

Postal Service sets major operational restructuring

The U.S. Postal Service plans a significant restructuring of its business, the quasi-governmental agency said Tuesday.

The Postal Service provided no details or a specific timetable in its announcement, which was included in its fiscal 2021 first-quarter results that included the peak holiday shipping season. The Washington Post reported Monday that a restructuring announcement could come as soon as next week.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, whose background is in private-sector logistics and not...

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