USPS Ten Year Plan - What's it mean to your daily mailing?

At the beginning of 2021, USPS released the "Our Vision and Ten-Year Plan to Achieve Financial Sustainability and Service Excellence." They claim that it will help USPS achieve financial sustainability and provide better services to users.

There are two topics that have attracted widespread attention in the report. One is that the price of stamps has risen from 55 to 58 cents, and the other is that the delivery time of mail will be delayed.

At the beginning, the policy aroused widespread discussion on social media. Most people generally disagreed and believed that the service price should not be increased while reducing the service speed. However, a small number of people believed that as a non-profit organization, It is understandable to take these measures during the pandemic. Some netizens also raised the release of this report as a political issue.

So what impact will these plans have on people's daily mailing? What is the scope of influence on different groups of people?

Recently, the Washington Post released a new report that pointed out the impact of delayed mail delivery on various regions in the USPS ten-year plan on various regions. Compared with the previous 2 or 3 days, the delivery time in many areas has increased, with the most being increased to 5 days. At the same time, the delivery time is related to the distance between the sending and receiving place of the mail. In the new standard, the mail will arrive in two days for 139 miles, three days for 930 miles, four days for 1,907 miles and the rest will arrive in five days. The plan has the greatest impact on long-distance delivery. Many netizens believe that this is unfair to people in rural and remote areas.

If you want to know how long you can receive your mail, you can enter the zip code of where the mail send from on the website to see how long the delivery time is in your area.