The End of Mail?
POSTAL SERVICE STRATEGY
Describing the current Postal Service budget gap created by the agency’s revenue shortfall as a “chasm, widening each day,” Potter outlined elements of the Postal Service’s strategy to help close that gap:
- A new process for evaluating and adjusting 90,000 city delivery routes
- Reduction of employee work hours and overtime by pursuing even greater efficiencies throughout the organization
- Halting construction of new postal facilities and directing funds to the sites with the most critical needs (buildings badly damaged or destroyed by natural disasters)
- Improved fleet management and delivery routing to reduce fuel usage
- Expanded energy efficiency to reduce energy use throughout Postal Service facilities
- Reductions in employee travel budgets through the use of web and video technology to conduct meetings and conferences
- Renegotiations of supplier contracts to reflect reduced needs