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Postal Service adjusts delivery times for 2 ground-parcel products

23 June 2022

The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday it will adjust the delivery times for two of its ground-parcel products despite a lukewarm endorsement from the agency overseeing some of its operations.

Starting Aug. 1, parcels moving under the Postal Service’s “Parcel Select Ground” and “Retail Ground” products within the lower 48 states will be delivered between two and five days instead of the current two- to eight-day window, the Postal Service said. Pricing will remain unchanged, the Postal Service...

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Postal Service OK’d to change parcel delivery standards

18 April 2022

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...

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

1 July 2021

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...

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