Postal Service is pushing forward with its plan to lower delivery standards. Given the pushback from multiple states, regulators, customers and observers, it may seem odd that the U.S. Hutkins, a retired professor who runs a blog called Save the Post Office, told the regulators that the slower standards would "cause undue discrimination of users of the mail who happen to live in places distant from the country's centers of population." Western states, Texas, Florida and Maine are among the states that would be most impacted by the changes, he said.Īnother analysis from Steve Hutkins, which was published in the PRC's report, suggests that pockets across the nation will suffer from slower delivery times. Hutkins, a retired professor who runs the "Save the Post Office" blog, submitted this analysis of average delivery times under the USPS plan to slow delivery standards. About 6 in 10 pieces of mail sent to Florida, Washington state, Montana, Arizona and Oregon will also experience longer delivery times, the analysis found. The states joining the petition range from California to North Carolina.Ībout 7 in 10 letters sent to Nevada will take longer to arrive, according to a Washington Post analysis of the USPS delivery changes.
"Misguided effort"Ī group of 21 state attorneys general last month asked the PRC to reject the USPS' plan to slow deliveries, calling it a "misguided effort" that would harm election mail, mailings of essential documents such as passports and birth and death records and have disproportionate impact on the elderly, rural residents and the disabled.
In response to the PRC's report, the USPS said it is "moving forward with our plan" but will review the regulator's recommendations. She added, "The plan also fails to provide sufficient evidence to justify exceptionally limited cost savings projections, use of a flawed demand model and unfounded notions that the majority of American citizens and businesses will actually experience increased satisfaction with these sweeping service cuts." Poling was nominated to the commission by former President Donald Trump, while DeJoy was appointed by the Postal Service Board of Governors during the Trump administration. "I do not believe that the Postal Service has proven its case for reducing service standards for all Americans," wrote PRC commissioner Ashley Poling in the report.
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