The Pros And Cons Of United States Postal Service

The USPS or United States Postal Service has been serving the citizens of the Unites States for many years. For the past decade, people have been switching from the mailing system provided by the USPS to the electronic mailing system; “The Postal Service experienced a 13 percent drop in mail volume last fiscal year, more than double any previous decline …” (O’Keefe). The United States Postal Service should be restructured to meet the needs of the changing world because of the serious drop in mail since the recession that is feared to never return to its previous levels.

The United States Postal Service should restructure to include new era technological advancements as to revolutionize to the modern era and regain consumer use. People have

Their increase of service days will give their customers more faith in the USPS mailing system; “It seems counterintuitive to add service when you’re losing money, but people have less faith in the system precisely because of spotty service.” (Stone) If they USPS were to increase their service delivery to all week, it will give people more faith that their mail will get to where it needs to go on time. People will also start using the United States Postal Service because it will be the first mailing system to be delivering all week which will put them above their competitors; “Considering tightening hours, but the USPS could be the first carrier to reliably deliver all week.”

In many major cities across the US, the USPS has a post office every few blocks.“You don’t need a full-service post office every few blocks in New York…” (Stone). This is extremely harmful to the united states postal services income, since it has to pay employees a each location. Removing the number of these locations per city and operating costs at each branch, when it could easily have less branches per city and save drastically.The money put into each of these branches could easily be redirected to upgrading the USPS. Branches should be limited to a handful in major metropolitan areas and 1 in small, rural areas. It is in the best interest of the company that “Potter also wants to close and consolidate 154 post offices.” (Cullen). By closing these branches the USPS could save money that it needs to restructure and meet the demands of the modern world.

Some people have the old fashioned belief that the post office should remain the way it is currently and not restructure. These people enjoy the traditional post office, where parcels and letters can be sent and received traditionally. But, the USPS system that they are using now is failing and that it is just going to get worse. The citizens of the United States of America needs to get a new system and restructure the USPS before it crashes and burns completely. Thus, leaving no governmental mailing service left for the people to