Social Media communication, emails and bills paid on-line have beaten down the US Post Office’s profitable first class mail.
Major cost cuts have been made and more proposed.
My question is, has first class mail gotten slower? In my experience three important pieces of mail sent by first class mail within the past three weeks between New York and Miami, Los Angeles and Miami and Boston and Miami arrived very slowly.
Anita Cohen-Williams responded to my first tweet wondering “Has anyone else seen incredibly slow post office deliveries within continental USA past three weeks? with:
Personally, I love USPS flat rate package deliveries. Especially if you are shipping to and from Hawaii, it is an important service.
This week, April 12th, CNN Money pointed out that more USPS cuts need to come.
The following Associated Press video about USPS needing to cut Saturday delivery was published 16 months ago in January 2009!
Update:
Further commentary about the US Post Office which I continue to hope stays in good shape August 2012 on my It’s Different For Girls blog: Should The Post Office Acknowledge Google Places?
Consumers fret about USPS raising the price of a first class letter delivery but this infographic shows they still beat Fedex and UPS January 2014:
I HATE the Post Office which is why I’m willing to pay extra and go to our local Postal Annex where they really work hard, at our store, to NOT keep us waiting – at the Post Office it’s interminable.
UPS has been putting out a slick magazine to business owners about how great their service is. This mag probably costs a bundle and should be one of the first items to be cut. I would gladly pay more in postage IF they could get mail delivered in less than 3-5 days. To send a letter across town should not take so long.As a result, I rarely use snail mail.
I think you make very good points @searchguru Drop #USPS slick magazine and raise first class mail rates
Bruce: We have been avoiding going to the #USPS Office by using their website to generate shipping labels