LOS ANGELES, CA – The current economic environment has affected every business in the country, including a direct affect on mail volume. This is particularly challenging to the Postal Service as it experiences less mail collected and less mail delivered.
Due to the changes in our business environment, the Postal Service must make changes to its operations, staffing, and facilities to match current mail volume and to maintain the high service performance the American public has come to expect.
It is possible that mail delivery to some addresses will be at a different time than residents have grown accustomed. These adjustments to carrier routes will provide stability and consistency, which is what our customers say they want.
An unprecedented agreement signed recently with the National Association of Letter Carriers allows the Postal Service to move quickly to make these necessary changes.
“We are evaluating and adjusting carrier routes to respond to the current state of the economy,” said Los Angeles District Manager Gregory Graves. “Our goal is to keep mail affordable and to provide excellent service to our customers. That means we must preserve the ability to provide quality service at reasonable rates now and well into the future.”
The first phase of route evaluations and adjustments has begun in Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
Nationwide, the changes are expected to affect as many as 50 million addresses on 85,000 routes in every District within the Postal Service.
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