USPS: Postmaster Louis DeJoy is set to announce a 10-year plan including longer mail delivery times and reductions in post office hours
The mega-plan, “Delivery for America,” also seeks to make the mail service more competitive and more modern – including a new energy-friendly fleet of delivery vehicles and ideas for new services the agency could provide to customers and small businesses, the source said.
The USPS said in a statement that the plan “will include financial projections for the next decade, strategies to improve service performance and investments in the future of the organization.”
Postal service employees and unions were preparing to release this plan after changes DeJoy made to the agency over the summer that slowed delivery of mail.
In a statement to CNN, American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein said the plan “contains positive features as well as some proposals that should be of interest to postal workers and customers.”
Dimondstein noted that “any proposals that would either slow down mail, reduce access to post offices, or pursue a failed strategy to consolidate factories, should be addressed,” but praised the plan to open “46 new attachments to deal with the increase in the number of packages handled by the USPS.” In addition to her realization that “the strength of the United States Postal Service resides in the people who provide the service.”
Democratic lawmakers linked DeJoy, a major donor to former President Donald Trump, with the anti-email vote of the then president. The party accused him of trying to sabotage the Postal Service just as incumbent President Joe Biden relied on mailed ballot papers for delivery to the White House.
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