USPS Postmaster: Delivery Day Must Be Cut

Patrick Donahoe, the 73rd Postmaster General of the United States, is taking control of an organization in fiscal crisis. Donahoe tells Federal News Radio he’s confident the USPS will return to black, but not without cutting back on mail delivery days.

“The loss of first class volume puts a lot of additional cost pressure” on the postal service, said Donahoe. “We eventually will have to go from six to five days from a delivery standpoint to remain in the black.”

Donahoe explained, “our first class volume is dropping at a rate of six percent per year.