Comments on: Five-Day Delivery Testimony in Chicago http://www.ampc.org/blog/2010/06/five-day-delivery-testimony-in-chicago/ The Voice of the Pack & Ship Community Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Larry Adams http://www.ampc.org/blog/2010/06/five-day-delivery-testimony-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Larry Adams Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:56:33 +0000 http://www.ampc.org/blog/?p=722#comment-396 If I recall, a number of members of Congress have already said five-day delivery is DOA, a non-starter. And since Congress will have to approve any change in the number of delivery days, I doubt there will be a change any time soon... maybe if Postal management keeps pushing for it, we might see it in 10-15 years. What Postal management SHOULD do is look for ways to increase revenue. Not by selling greeting cards in competition with our store, but by improving Express Mail and Priority Mail by making them guaranteed services with real time tracking. Express Mail could return to the guaranteed overnight service it was when it started back in the early 1980's, before Postal management left it waving in the breeze by de-emphasizing and eliminating much of the guaranteed service commitments such as Sunday and holiday delivery to nearly all addresses in the country. Express Mail should compete with FedEx and UPS next day services, at a comparable but slightly lower price, with morning or afternoon commitments and real time tracking. Priority Mail should be realigned to compete with the other carriers' two and three day services in the same manner, a guaranteed delivery day and real time tracking, not just "end of the delivery day" tracking. It could be done, _IF_ Postal management would make the commitment to do it. As Captain Picard would say, "Make it so." If I recall, a number of members of Congress have already said five-day delivery is DOA, a non-starter. And since Congress will have to approve any change in the number of delivery days, I doubt there will be a change any time soon… maybe if Postal management keeps pushing for it, we might see it in 10-15 years.

What Postal management SHOULD do is look for ways to increase revenue. Not by selling greeting cards in competition with our store, but by improving Express Mail and Priority Mail by making them guaranteed services with real time tracking. Express Mail could return to the guaranteed overnight service it was when it started back in the early 1980′s, before Postal management left it waving in the breeze by de-emphasizing and eliminating much of the guaranteed service commitments such as Sunday and holiday delivery to nearly all addresses in the country.

Express Mail should compete with FedEx and UPS next day services, at a comparable but slightly lower price, with morning or afternoon commitments and real time tracking.

Priority Mail should be realigned to compete with the other carriers’ two and three day services in the same manner, a guaranteed delivery day and real time tracking, not just “end of the delivery day” tracking.

It could be done, _IF_ Postal management would make the commitment to do it. As Captain Picard would say, “Make it so.”

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