The Logan Post Office is seeing a surge in patroins today for people mailing their taxes on Tax Day.

LOGAN – U.S. Postal Service employees are ready for the recent bill signed President Joe Biden to get the nation-wide delivery service a boost at becoming self-sufficient.

Logan Postmaster Katie Eversten said they are seeing a big increase in the volume of packages from COVID.

The President authorized a 10-year plan Delivering for America Act to help the USPS letter and package delivery system become self-sufficient.

The bill injected $25 billion into the Postal Service Fund, of which $15 million was transferred to the USPS Office of Inspector General.

The 10-year plan includes allowing price changes on letters and package to help mail carriers across the nation. On April 6, Biden signed the bill that postal workers have waiting for 16 years for the changes that will, hopefully, stabilize the USPS.

The Postal service was projected to lose $160 billion in the next 10 years.

Logan Postmaster Katie Eversten said the Delivering for America 10-year plan will maintain universal six-day mail delivery and expanded seven-day package delivery, stabilize our workforce, and spur innovation to meet the needs of our modern customers.

It will generate enough revenue to cover our operating costs, enable investments in our people, infrastructure, and technology, and simultaneously provide our customers in Cache Valley with the excellent service they expect and deserve,” she said. “USPS implemented the Delivering for America plan a year ago and we are already seeing great results locally.”

“Logan USPS has implemented a faster hiring process so new candidates can enter the workforce more rapidly and added expedited path to career status for new employees,” Eversten said. “We have also given letter carriers new scanners, so customers have greater transparency as their items move through our network.”

The Logan Post Office is already implementing the Delivering for America Act recently signed into law.

In a few months, Cache Valley letter carriers will have a new service available for businesses in Utah called USPS Connect which will bring same day and next day delivery options to their customers.

The 10-year plan includes adding 112 new processing machines across the country and 50 annexes to handle the package increase that they have experienced during the past two years of COVID.

“This is truly an exciting time for us at the Postal Service,” the Logan postmaster said. “I look forward to continue bringing fantastic, reliable service to our customers in Cache Valley and across the nation.”

Rod Spurgeon, a USPS spokesman, said during COVID people stayed home and ordered a lot more products from online services. USPS saw a sudden increase in package deliveries across the country.

“There were a lot of people ordering stuff online so we added 50 annexes and made extra space, so we could deal with the sudden increase in packages,” he said. “We used some of the warehouse space to store COVID test kits. Now that we are not getting as many test kits, we are converting the annexes to package processing centers.”

The Postal Service is hiring in many parts of the country. Cache Valley has a stable workforce, but in other places there is a shortage of qualified candidates. With the 10-year plan, USPS is offering better benefits.

“We are offering benefits that other companies can’t and the pay is going up,” Spurgeon said. “The average wage of a postal carrier is $17 to $26 an hour,” he said. “Anyone who wants a great job should check out the Postal Service.”

He said the is Delivering for America is a big thing.

“We are turning this ship around that for decades has been losing ground just delivering letters,” he said. “Now that we shifted to package delivery it should put us in a good position in the years to come.”

The bill mandates the USPS to do whatever necessary to keep the service prompt, reliable, and efficient.

The Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer Louis DeJoy said the changes at the USPS will be good for the country and will bring stability to the organization.

“The need for the U.S. Postal Service to transform it to meet the needs of customers is long overdue,” DeJoy said. “Our plan calls for growth and investments, as well as targeted cost reductions and other strategies that will enable us to operate in a precise manner to meet future challenges, as we put the Postal Service on a path for financial sustainability and service excellence.”







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