Forty years ago, Federal Express (now FedEx) detected that there was allowance to be done by earnest shippers that a package sent currently could be in its recipient's hands tomorrow ... wherever in the country.
In those same 40 years, the U.S. letter has gotten slower, not faster, even as the cost of stamp. has usually increased. For Northern Nevadans, it will obtain even slower if a offer to shut the Reno classification core is agreed by U.S. Postal Service officials.
The Postal Service's answer to its major financial problems seems to be creation service worse rsther than than better.
The outcome will be to pursue divided even more customers -- to email, bill-paying services and to FedEx or UPS -- until there's no a left to colum up a failing service.
Before the USPS closes the Reno core and sends all local letter to Sacramento for sorting, inclusive letter that has to be sent correct back to Nevada, Congress should demand that the quasi-governmental group full a top-to-bottom rethinking of its assignment and how it can encounter it many years in to the future. Right now, it is evidently streamer in the incorrect direction.
The Postal Service's problems are really real. It is losing allowance by the bucket load, and the model initial put in to place by Benjamin Franklin more than two centuries ago evidently doesn't work anymore.
Some of the agency's problems are the mistake of a nosiness Congress that has forced it to encounter pension mandate that no other organization in the nation has to meet. Some of the problems may be blamed on the need is to Postal Service to keep politicians around the nation cheerful with not essential offices and buildings that are memorials to their nam! esakes.
And more of the problems may be traced to bad administration at scarcely every level.
The bottom line, however, is that the business model simply isn't working anymore. Technology has done it probable for Americans to achieve on a P.C. and the Internet many tasks that once compulsory an pouch and a stamp. They've turn dependant to the present communications that a cellphone or a P.C. make possible.
When they do must be use the mail, they can go to a tiny store in a dilemma selling center, where they can obtain a package packed and shipped by the fastest and many careful way. Why go to a post office?
The U.S. Postal Service must find ways to make itself applicable again. It must find ways to work more well and more effectiely ... and friendlier.
Consolidating offices and placement centers may make sense, but only if it speeds the process, not if it slows it down.
What's coherent is that the Postal Service cannot go on down the same trail that it's been subsequent to is to past couple of decades. That won't work.
Congress must order a full overhaul, and then it must obtain out of the way to let USPS officials do what's vital to vie in the 21st century. If it fails, it won't be around to serve any person anymore.