Goodbye to expedited deliveries? What’s changing at the USPS and how it will affect you

For the first time in more than 50 years President Donald Trump has signalled that he may push for sweeping changes that threaten the independence of the USPS.

The Washington Post reports that Trump is planning to break up the USPS Board of Governors and bring it under government control within the Commerce Department.

Trump claimed: “Well, we want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that, and it will be a form of a merger,” Trump alluded to a potential USPS switch to the Commerce Department. “It’ll remain the Postal Service, and I think it’ll operate a lot better than it has been over the years.”

USPS changes

Service standards for first-class mail, periodicals, marketing mail, and package services are all set to be adjusted to save an expected $36 billion over 10 years, per USPS.

According to the company, the majority of first-class mail customers won’t notice a difference in delivery service.

However, 11% of customers will experience slower delivery times.

Despite any potential delays, the agency said all deliveries would happen between one and five days.

USPS will no longer count Saturdays or the day before a holiday as a transit day for packages.

In conjunction with the Elon Musk run DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) , the USPS announced it would be cutting around 10,000 jobs by using an early retirement program with one of the first high profile casualties being USPS Postmaster General Louis Dejoy who resigned last week after five years in the position.

Select employees would be offered $15,000 for taking their retirement early - a move that’s expected to save the agency billions.

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