Glimmers of hope for those involved in government service delivery
More packages are being mailed than ever and USPS can’t keep up.
Institutional reform is necessary, but we can’t accomplish much in the face of tribalism.
Under pressure to cut costs and unable to cut services, the workers are the likely victims.
President Trump continues his unhinged, and unsupported by facts, war on Amazon and its owner Jeff Bezos by pressuring an independent agency to raise shipping rates.
The Postal Service is losing billions of dollars, but not for the reasons the President claims.
The Post Office is saying that it will not accept for mail any publication that includes ad for marijuana, even in states where it has been legalized.
UPS and FedEx underestimated their capacity needs and failed to deliver packages in time for Christmas.
Jeff Bezos’s latest idea may never get off the ground, but it sure is interesting.
Amazon’s new deal with the USPS offers a way out of the agency’s problems if only Congress would give up its last bit of control.
The US Postal Service is struggling to make delivery more efficient.
It may have made sense to subsidize rural mail delivery once, that may not longer be the case?
The Postal Service announced another round of service cutbacks today that are likely to just make the rapidity of its decline increase
A complexity of social policy is the need for universality. This is why pure market models are incompatible with government action.
The Postal Service believes it can save itself by making service worse. Something about that doesn’t compute.
We are being warned once again that the Postal Service is on the verge of financial collapse. There really is only one solution.
Business Week’s cover story examines the coming implosion of the US Postal Service as we know it.
Fast Internet access is becoming a necessity for modern life. Should we subsidize it by eliminating the Postal Service?