U.S Mail Going To Brokers

Most mail i get anymore is junk mail.
Waste of time, effort and fills up the landfill.

 

Your guess is as good as mine. I know with my job fingerprinting and a background check was mandatory-but that was to comply with TSA and FAA regulations. I’m sure USPS will do something to that equivalent.

 

I am not surprised

 

Covenant did the same thing around that same time. And it was driver unload, too.

 

So this is what I know, but there are so many changes going on with USPS it's hard to keep up.
The USPS contracts for regular routes are bid on by registered contractors. These include city to city, and also distribution center to local station. In 2023 brokers are allowed to bid on these regular routes. And they have taken a lot of routes.
10 Roads in Indy went from approximately 90 routes in 2021 to under 40 now. Not all of this has to do with brokers, but I'm trying to be somewhat brief.
In my opinion this will cause more problems than it solves. I've seen the dealings with brokers before. When I was still working at 10 Roads they used brokers for extra trips, and routes that couldn't be covered when drivers called off. Sometimes on new routes until we hired enough additional drivers to cover the run. They were unreliable at best. Had some pickup the mail, drive 50 miles and take a 10. Many, many times the driver or company hired by the broker just didn't show. They would call and say they were running an hour behind and show up 7 hours late. Then there is the whole prevailing wage thing. By law there is an hourly wage, and health and welfare wage that has to be paid to the driver. We can trust brokers to be honest can't we?

Also, the postal union is trying to bring more routes in house. In Cincinnati they won a battle to accomplish this. Postal transportation there now has first crack at routes within a 300 mile radius. Before it was 30 miles I believe.

 

I used to haul accountable paper it was called into Secaucus NJ. Came out of Williamsburg Pa to Secaucus. Accountable paper is 44,000 pounds of pre stamped envelopes. Big bugs. Broker load.

 

Yeah most of New England is a problem.