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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.

8 thoughts on “USPS to Open New Sorting and Delivery Centers as That Approach Comes Under Fire”

  1. Its called consolidation and getting rid of the useless dead weight in the post office. They have a lot of the dead weight just like the government.

  2. Tons of Post Offices in time will be closed. One thing I do not agree with is the fact of slowing down mail that is purchased or dropped off at that outlining Post Offices. An APWU employee will drop off the Post Office mail in the morning and also pickup up the outgoing mail as well at the same time thus no afternoon pickup. That will delay mail that is sold or dropped off after that morning pickup. Clearly is being done so people don’t go to the Post Office and move to shipping from home.

  3. Back in the good old days from 2000 to 2011 I worked for the USPS in a P&DC, a Processing and Distribution Center. At the same time, from 2000 to 2015 I was a seller on evilbay and I could say with confidence that my item took two to three days to get from California (where I then lived) to anywhere in the nation.

    I saw with my own eyes the corruption, sloth and waste of the USPS but nonetheless, they still moved packages FAST and EFFICIENTLY.

    Then came the issue of which post OFFICES to close down and there was a hue and a cry.

    Nope, can’t close down post offices so let’s try closing down and consolidating processing centers. That didn’t work too well because now workers had even longer commutes and morale plummeted. Additionally, the trucks had to drive longer distances, causing more air pollution and driver fatigue.

    Finally, after exhausting all their options after encouraging early retirements, they decided that the mail delivery times were horribly suffering so they reopened P&DCs and now call them S&DCs for “Sorting and Delivery Centers”. Way to go, USPS! Trying to reinvent the wheel, AGAIN!

    You’ll never learn, will you??

    1. Too true. Classic leadership: new guy (or gal) comes in, makes a lot of noise and rearranges the chairs, until discovering that actually the way the chairs had been arranged previously kinda made sense. What a waste of time and effort.

  4. @Making Money.

    WRONG. I live in a small po dunk town, pop 1300. Mail is deliver and pickup up at our post office at 5am in the morning. In the afternoon all outgoing mail is pickup at around 6pm. No delays in the mail. Checking tracking number prove it. THERE IS NO DELAY IN OUR MAIL

    1. I am not wrong. If your Post Office is part of the consolidation in the next few years where all the carriers in a 30 minute radius are moved from all those Post Offices to a central Sorting And Delivering Center this is how currently the mail is being handled. You can go to SaveThePostOffice.com and see the articles on it.

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