Sunday, January 19, 2025

Eric Burlison: U. S. Postal Service must return to providing reliable, efficient services


(From Seventh District Congressman Eric Burlison)

In recent weeks, my office has fielded concerns from constituents regarding a variety of ongoing issues with the United States Postal Service. These complaints include significant delays in mail delivery, lost packages, and general inefficiencies affecting both residential and commercial sectors.

As a member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which provides oversight for USPS operations, I am deeply engaged with these issues.







I am working with Chairman James Comer and Congressman Pete Sessions to arrange a meeting with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to investigate and identify the causes of these disruptions.

The USPS must return to providing reliable and efficient mail services to all Americans.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The USPS is a Government Agency - As with most Government Agencies - they do not Operate at peak efficiency, nor do they hire the best personnel. They are at best a Mediocre Operation - who could not compete in the Business World - because they lack a Quality of Service and a Low Level of Efficiency across the Board. They are only in Business because they are Government Agency.

The USPS has operated at a loss since 2007. From 2008 to 2018, it reported $69 billion in losses. For the 2019 fiscal year, it lost $8.8 billion on $71.1 billion of operating revenue.

The U.S. Postal Service lost $9.5 billion in fiscal 2024 despite sweeping reform efforts aimed at improving the agency’s financial outlook, though its management team remains steadfast that its current course is the correct one.

Postal management projected USPS will once again be in the red in fiscal 2025, projecting a $6.9 billion overall loss and a $1.1 billion controllable loss.

More than three-quarters of USPS costs are employee compensation, which includes excessive health and pension benefits. About four-fifths of the USPS labor force is unionized.

USPS has been losing money for more than a decade. Expenses are a few billion a year higher than revenues.

Anonymous said...

As the husband of a usps employee i can tell you that the health insurance and pension benefits are not that great. They are comparable to a factory job. The pay is OK but still not that great.

Anonymous said...

The Postal Service is expected to be financially self-sufficient—meaning it should cover its expenses through the sale of its products and services, not taxpayer money.

USPS's revenues haven't covered its expenses and debt for more than 15 years. And its expenses are growing faster than its revenues, in part due to continuing declines in volume for First-Class Mail—its most profitable product.

Until recently, the USPS was required congressional action (the Postal Enhancement And Accountability Act of 2006) to fully fund future retirement benefits, something no business organization does or even contemplates. Between 2007 and 2016, the USPS lost $62.4 billion; the USPS estimated that $54.8 billion of that was due to prefunding retiree benefits. The recently signed Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 removed that requirement.

The USPS is also in the early stages of replacing delivery vehicles and sorting equipment, which are major capital expenses.

Finally, when I started with USPS two years ago, we were told that 58 per cent of the workforce was eligible to retire within four years. In other words, the workforce is getting smaller while more people will be collecting earned retirement benefits. That leads to…

Anonymous said...

I have had my credit card statement returned twice in the last eight months... claiming I moved. What actually happened is it was misdelivered and whoever received it wrote NOT HERE on the envelope and instead of trying to understand why, they just returned it to the bank.
I called the post office and also complained that I am getting mail for others and they said " If you tell me who lives at your address, this normally solves getting someone elses mail". Three days later, my neighbors mail was in my mail box.
Some of the worst service I have ever experienced.
In fact, I over-heard people twice in different locations complain how bad their mail delivery has become.
WHO ARE THEY HIRING?

Anonymous said...

Every bill or payment I have on a monthly basis is all done electronic. I contribute a total of zilch to help keep up the postal service. I am sure this goes for quite a lot of other folks also.