USPS warns it may cut back delivery to save money
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The US Postal Service warns that universal delivery of mail or six-day delivery may become a thing of the past if it does not get more flexibility to adjust prices. The agency's senior VP for public affairs, Deborah Willhite, declared that the option would certainly be one of the agency's last choices. She stated that the agency's current system has run its course and that its options are not the ones that a good business would use.
Publication Name: DM News
Subject: Construction and materials industries
ISSN: 0194-3588
Year: 2001
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MPA wants hiring freeze at USPS
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The US Postal Service (USPS) could freeze hiring and consolidating underused mail processign plants and eliminate the need for another postage rate increase to save $3.1 billion to $4.1 billion. The Magazine Publishers of America noted that USPS expensesz in 2000, totaled nearly $65 billion. About $50 billion was directly related to labor costs. Attrition of 3% would lower the USPS' annual expenses by roughly $1.5 billion.
Publication Name: DM News
Subject: Construction and materials industries
ISSN: 0194-3588
Year: 2001
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USPS keeps cutting $1B in costs yearly
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The details pertaining to the goals outlined by the United States Postal Service's Strategic Transformation Plan 2006-2010, are presented. These include, generating revenues, reducing costs, etc.
Publication Name: DM News
Subject: Construction and materials industries
ISSN: 0194-3588
Year: 2005
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