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You are here: Home / Commentary / Hoping for a Healthy USPS

Hoping for a Healthy USPS

April 16, 2010 By Linda Sherman 4 Comments

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:

Anita_cohen-williams_usps_tweeLinda_sherman_question_usps

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:

2014 USPS Postage Change Infographic

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About Linda Sherman

Boomer Tech Talk Managing Editor, Linda Sherman is passionate about senior health care and healthy longevity. Start-ups and board service in this field are of interest. Linda has a distinguished background of international subsidiary CEO/CMO experience. These include CEO Club Med Japan, Barilla Japan and CMO Wal-Mart Japan. After setting up Coors Japan, Linda devised and implemented an innovative guerrilla-marketing plan for ZIMA in Japan that produced a lasting, profitable success. Linda Sherman has been featured and quoted in Forbes, The New York Times, Christian Monitor and other leading publications. Connect with Linda on Twitter and Instagram @LindaSherman.

Comments

  1. Bruce Sallan says

    April 16, 2010 at 8:51 pm

    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.

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  2. searchguru says

    April 17, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    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.

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  3. Linda Sherman Gordon says

    April 17, 2010 at 10:41 pm

    I think you make very good points @searchguru Drop #USPS slick magazine and raise first class mail rates

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  4. Linda Sherman Gordon says

    April 17, 2010 at 10:55 pm

    Bruce: We have been avoiding going to the #USPS Office by using their website to generate shipping labels

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