Originally published at: US Postal Service makes U-turn on last-mile delivery - FreightWaves
The U.S. Postal Service needs to grow revenue, not just rely on cost cuts, to achieve financial health and one way to do that is return to providing last-mile delivery service for large shippers, Postmaster General David Steiner told his bosses on Friday. Consolidation of distribution centers and regional transfer hubs in the past four…
“Deliver to every address” often means forced P.O. boxes in small towns where they don’t go door to door. Or if your house is over a mile from your rural mailbox you are forced to drive into town to pick up your packages. In my case that means driving 40 miles to get a package sent USPS.
I wound up marking my amazon account “avoid USPS”