GAO delivers outdated recommendations as Congress moves ahead with reforms.
Joe Biden’s Bad Ideas Include Postal Banking
Financial Services, General Waste, Oversight, Postal Service
McKinsey Consultant Pete Buttigieg Was Right on USPS’s High Labor Costs
As a consultant for McKinsey, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg helped write a report examining USPS’s high labor costs.
USPS Ends Another Fiscal Year With Billion-Dollar Losses
There is no doubt that the USPS is facing a serious financial crisis.
Trick: The USPS Is Still Bleeding Money
Congress has been promising and failing to deliver postal reform for years.
Best Laid Plans: Another USPS IG Report, Another Failed Attempt to Save Money
As has been pointed out repeatedly in the past few years, United States Postal Service (USPS) management continues to struggle mightily to enact efficiencies or carve out savings from its operations. And this continues to be the case despite the dramatic drop in mail volume and USPS Postmaster General (PMG) Megan Brennan’s regular declarations and […]
USPS’s Widening Third-Quarter Financial Losses Are Alarming
USPS will run out of money in five years as it approaches its 13th consecutive year with a multi-billion dollar loss.
USPS Struggles with Finding and Measuring Efficiencies
Math is hard. Especially when it comes to the USPS and its attempts to save money.
USPS’s 12 Years of Financial Woe
On November 14, 2018, the United States Postal Service (USPS) announced that, for the 12th year running, it lost money. While this annual revelation has become something of a dog bites man story, the new, and more alarming news was that the $3.9 billion loss will outstrip its FY 2017 losses, which were $2.7 billion, […]
President Trump’s Postal Task Force Should Consider Locality Pay
There are many commonsense reforms that the task force should examine that could put the USPS on a sustainable financial path and help it perform more like a private-sector business.