{"id":14538,"date":"2016-04-01T08:56:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14538"},"modified":"2016-04-01T08:56:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:56:45","slug":"usps-failed-to-meet-service-targets-in-2015-prc-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/04\/01\/usps-failed-to-meet-service-targets-in-2015-prc-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Failed to Meet Service Targets in 2015, PRC Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/web-news-article\/usps-failed-meet-service-targets-2015-prc-report-says\">APWU News<\/a> &#8211; 03\/31\/2016<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>According to the Postal Regulatory Commission\u2019s (PRC)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/reports\/Final_2015_ACD.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Annual Compliance Determination Report<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(ACD), the Postal Service failed to meet the majority of service performance targets in fiscal year 2015. Service performance remains \u201csubstantially below their targets,\u201d the March 28 report found.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service lowered service standards in January 2015 \u2013 but failed to meet even the degraded standards. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7249\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\" alt=\"1aa-APWU-small\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The USPS failed to fix the problems identified in last year\u2019s report, and in all but one case, performance results declined over the previous year\u2019s results.<\/p>\n<p>The commission said it is concerned about the \u201cdramatic decline\u201d in performance for First-Class Mail Single-Piece Letters and Postcards with a 3-5-day service standard. The USPS only met service performance targets for High Density and Saturation Letters, Standard Mail Parcels, Bound Printed Matter Parcels, Media Mail\/Library Mail, and most Special Services products.<\/p>\n<p>The report also expressed concern over the staggering number of post offices that are \u201ctemporarily\u201d closed, such as those awaiting relocation. \u201cThe Commission also notes its concern with the growing number of postal retail facilities under suspension, as the number of facilities under suspension has nearly tripled from the end of FY 2012 to the end of FY 2015,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The PRC also found compliance issues related to 53 workshare discounts, identifying 24 excessive discounts. \u201cWorkshare discounts that exceed avoided costs adversely affect Postal Service finances because they incent mailers to perform worksharing that the Postal Service could have done on a less costly basis,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">\u201cFor the second year in a row, the Postal Service failed to meet service standards,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. \u201cThese failures are frustrating customers and driving away revenue. The Postal Service should restore overnight delivery standards, stop the consolidation and closure of mail processing facilities, open shuttered post offices, and hire enough workers to give the people the service they deserve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU News &#8211; 03\/31\/2016\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0According to the Postal Regulatory Commission\u2019s (PRC)\u00a0Annual Compliance Determination Report\u00a0(ACD), the Postal Service failed to meet the majority of service performance targets in fiscal year 2015. Service performance remains \u201csubstantially below their targets,\u201d the March 28 report found. The Postal Service lowered service standards in January 2015 \u2013 but failed to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14539,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538\/revisions\/14539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}