The grand plan, “Delivering for America”, also aims to make the postal service more competitive and modern – including a new fleet of energy-saving delivery vehicles and ideas for new services that the agency can offer to customers and small businesses, said the source.
The USPS said in a statement that the plan “will include financial projections for the next decade, strategies for improving service performance and investments in the organization’s future.”
Postal service workers and unions are gearing up for the launch of this plan after DeJoy’s changes to the agency over the summer slowed mail delivery.
In a statement to CNN, the president of the American Postal Union, Mark Dimondstein, said the plan “contains both positive attributes and some proposals that should be of concern to postal workers and customers”.
Dimondstein noted that “any proposals that slow down mail, reduce access to post offices or proceed with the failed factory consolidation strategy will need to be addressed”, but applauded the plan to open “46 new attachments to deal with the growing number of packages processed by the USPS “as well as its recognition” that the strength of the United State Postal Service is in the people who provide the service “.
Democratic lawmakers linked DeJoy, a major donor to former President Donald Trump, to the rhetoric of the then president’s anti-mail-in vote. The party accused him of trying to sabotage the postal service, just as now President Joe Biden relied on ballots sent by mail to deliver it to the White House.