{"id":26829,"date":"2019-07-22T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26829"},"modified":"2019-07-22T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:56:42","slug":"usps-aims-to-expand-shipping-packages-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/07\/22\/usps-aims-to-expand-shipping-packages-business\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS aims to expand shipping, packages business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail link-fullfeature\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PackagesREVISED4_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PackagesREVISED4_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PackagesREVISED4_large-story-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PackagesREVISED4_large-story-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PackagesREVISED4_large-story-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>To remain competitive in the shipping and packages business, USPS will leverage recent investments in vehicles and equipment, as well as process innovations.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS News Link &#8211; The Postal Service is continuing to expand its shipping and packages business, a critical component of the organization\u2019s efforts to grow revenue.<\/p>\n<p>USPS delivered 6.2 billion packages in 2018, about twice the number delivered a decade earlier. The surge is driven by major increases in online shopping, as more consumers use the internet to purchase items and have them delivered to their homes and workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic growth has made the marketplace more competitive, however.<\/p>\n<p>Other shippers are now competing for parcels that are entered at local Post Offices and delivered to customers\u2019 homes \u2014 also known as \u201clast-mile volume,\u201d a longtime advantage for USPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to concede any business,\u201d said Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan. \u201cOur business depends on meeting the rising service expectations of our customers. Service is foundational to the growth of our business. We need to earn our customer\u2019s business every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To remain competitive, USPS will leverage recent investments in new package sorting equipment and vehicles, as well as innovations like dynamic routing, a technique that puts package delivery points in the most efficient, logical order.<\/p>\n<p>Employees say they\u2019re eager to do their part to help the organization become the shipper of choice for consumers and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all recognize that packages are a big part of the Postal Service\u2019s future,\u201d said Timothy Brubaker, an Irvine, CA, letter carrier. \u201cWe\u2019re ready to do our part to grow this part of the business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To remain competitive in the shipping and packages business, USPS will leverage recent investments in vehicles and equipment, as well as process innovations. USPS News Link &#8211; The Postal Service is continuing to expand its shipping and packages business, a critical component of the organization\u2019s efforts to grow revenue. USPS delivered 6.2 billion packages in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829","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=26829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26830,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829\/revisions\/26830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}