The history of the United States Postal Service (USPS) is an ongoing story of enormous depth and breadth, rooted in a single, great principle: that every person in the United States - no matter who, no matter where - has the right to equal access to secure, efficient, and affordable mail service (USPS, n.d.). The United States Post Office Department was created in 1872 by our founding fathers. The United States Postal Service is an organization inside the federal government of the United States that is responsible for providing postal services worldwide. USPS delivers more mail in a larger geographical area than any other organization in the world. Everyone living in the United States and its territories has access to postal products and …show more content…
The USPS strives to enhance sustainability at its facilities for employees and customers working in and conducting business at postal facilities across the country (USPS, n.d.). The Postal Service relies on products and services from suppliers to support their mission of universal delivery at an affordable cost. They have established procurement principles that ensure product quality and reliability, and also reduce costs. This sustainable acquisition and planning delivers timely, lean and sustainable supply-chain solutions.
The organization is in the process of developing contracting clauses that will guarantee that green policies are being adhered to by their employees as well as contractors. The USPS Supplier Sustainability Excellence Awards recognize excellence in implementing environmentally preferred business practices that help the Postal Service achieve its Sustainability goals and reduce its carbon footprint (USPS_SSPP, 2014). These awards demonstrate how committed and dedicated they USPS is in seeking the highest levels of supplier performance and environmental stewardship.
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These changes would save the USPS $3 billion dollars a year. The company would progress upon its bottom line because a large percentage of growth in the decades to come would be international. Restructuring and enhancements in processes would enable the USPS to cut back on superfluous expenses. The USPS could also remodel its system to more resemble postal services in Europe (McLaughlin, 2015). This would allow them to restructure and focus on certain facets of the market like digital mail
The U.S. Postal Service is one of the largest organizations in the world. In fiscal 2005, it had nearly 705,000 career employees and handled about 211 million pieces of mail through an extremely complicated system of carefully coordinated activities (United States Postal Service Annual report, 2005).
In eliminating the United States Post Office our world would benefit environmentally, economically, as well as financially.
To guarantee the survival of the USPS it will have to at some point become privatized. By becoming a private industry they will be able to manage themselves which allows them restructure, reorganize, and control costs effectively to make them competitive once again. The USPS needs to continue to follow its business strategy which includes delivering results through innovation, technology, and customer satisfaction. USPS is going to continue to have a uphill battle as management and the firm continue to navigate through significant organizational changes. USPS's management and Congress are going to have to keep functional dialogue open as they continue to collaborate on proposed strategic restructuring
UPS has announced that after more than 90 years as a private company, it was planning an initial public offering to become a publicly traded company. In response to this, we will first analyze UPS¡¦s business strategy and it¡¦s sustainability of its current performance. Then we will look at key factors to estimate the UPS¡¦s market capitalization value using FedEx¡¦s multiples as well as ¡§best in breed¡¨ company premiums. From this, we concluded that UPS¡¦s IPO should create a market capitalization for UPS between $17,520 million and $30,415 million.
Federal Express is the world’s largest package delivery company today. They have been successful mainly because of their technological advancements. Technology has allowed them to have superior customer service and quality that was unparalleled by any company. No company was able to offer overnight delivery of packages with the speed and precision that Federal Express did. Although Federal Express remains ahead of its competition today, their advantages over other firms in the industry are slowly diminishing.
In 1979 the United States Postal Service had a cash flow of $22.5 Billion and was additionally receiving $176 million from investing(#1, Intro). Even with this added revenue the Postal Service was still greatly under funded on its own (#1, Intro). During this time it was discussed to privatize the postal service and introduce competition because of the extreme losses that the service was experiencing. A positive argument for privatizing the Postal Service was with numerous competitors in the market there would be more efficiency and the public would receive lower prices.
I think that The Postal Service is not considerate a monopoly because you still have to pay for shipping even though The Postal Service. However, some companies have to take the shipping handling to the next level by offering a free of charge shipping service. As customers, we all like to have a free shipping offer because we already spent our money buying their products. The difference from USPS from Fed Ex and UPS is that the USPS fees are generally lower than Fed Ex and UPS. However, the competitive advantage for Fed Ex and UPS from USPS is that their shipment process is quicker than the USPS and consumers want to have their products as soon as they made the purchases. USPS has come with a strategy to have a standard shipping price that
A supply chain is a system through which organizations deliver their products and services to their customers. The network begins with the basic ingredients to start the chain of supply, which are the suppliers that supply raw materials, ingredients, and so on. From there, it will transfer the supplies to the manufacturer who builds, assembles, converts, or furnishes a product. The chain now needs to get the product to the consumer by transporting the finished product from the manufacturer through a warehouse or distribution center. An example is that Wal-Mart has a nearby distribution center where products are delivered there and then split up to be delivered to a retail Wal-Mart. “Wal-Mart will take responsibility for breaking down larger loads and delivering the product to other Wal-Mart stores” (Ehring 1).
Understanding the changes in the market and the growth of e-commerce prompted the organization to invest heavily in its supply chain management forecasting and management system. The development of a network of distribution centers and Direct Fulfillment Centers to position the company to capitalize on the growing e-commerce market indicate a strong understanding of the need to adapt to changing market forces. The company spent over $300 million on new distribution center facilities in 2014 alone, and continues to expand to maintain efficiency in product movement (Cassidy,
More and more people are using computers and the Internet. Dual income families have increased spending; therefore more people are ordering products over the internet at a high rate. The Internet offers customers a one stop source for global shipping. Due to this, there has been an increase in using information technology and the Internet for businesses. This has created an increase in trade and investment along with global shipping logistics and supply chain solutions. With the increase in globalization, companies have had to adapt to the diverse work force and the culture of the countries in which they are conducting business. The parcel service industry is controlled by strict regulations and federal law. For example, September 11 brought stricter laws and regulations in the parcel service industry. Operations must maintain federal approval to operate in the United States.
Also, they may say that if the USPS shut down or turned to online mail, it would make it hard for the people not connected to internet to get their mail, so the USPS needs vehicles to bring people mail. That example is used in source D when it says, “Even though the vast majority of people are connected to the internet, there are many people who aren’t.” (Hawkins) The true nature of the post office does not have to be driving vehicles, delivering mail to houses, and spending millions of dollars in fuel. That does not have to be the true nature of the USPS. A solution for that problem could be to put a post office building in every town or area, and having the citizens in the town go and get their mail. For example, in the village of Glendale, Rhode Island, they do not have mail delivery to their house on a daily basis, or ever. In Glendale, there is one post office building where residents go to get their mail in a PO box using a key that they get. If the USPS invested in that idea instead of investing in new vehicles that will put them in debt more, it could help their finances and put them on track to be better.
The first post office in the United States was established in seventeen seventy-five, which makes it the oldest most reliable post service in history. It is a well know fact that in the beginning, this business was called the Pony Express, which began in eighteen sixty. Years later the US Post office has become the largest company that we rely on to deliver our mail. This mailing institution delivers more mail to a larger area than any other delivery service in the world. They are rendering assistance to more than one million people in North America. There are over six hundred thousand employees and in excess of thirty four thousand facilities nationwide. This institution thrives to provide customer service, available products, transport of products, and accessibility to all consumers. The United States Postal Service is a reliable, excellent, and efficient delivery service. They supply a wide variety of convenient products to help with any shipping needs consumers may have.
At one point or another, we have all held and opened a piece of mail. Whether it was a birthday card, a letter from a friend, or even a bill, we have all held a piece of paper that was sent from somewhere else. Even in the age of Facebook and email, it is likely that you have held a piece of mail and most likely, the way it got from point A (the person sending the mail) to point B (the person receiving the mail) was through the United States Postal Service, or the USPS. In the past decade, the postal service has experienced a decreased volume in their letter mail. In fact, for the postal service, the volume of this letter mail has been "falling at a rate not seen since the Great Depression" and it is believed to be because the "substitution [of snail mail] to Internet-based communications" (Geddes). The postal service has started to experience such a decline in funds that they now face the issue of staying afloat. The United States Postal Service has to dig their way out of rut in order to keep from going down into extinction. Peter Rorvig, a United States postal worker in Zirconia, North Carolina, talks some about the USPS's struggles and the involvement that Congress has with the USPS in his blog "More Normal than Not." This passage raised two outside questions, exactly what is the postal service trying to do to solve this decline in funds and how much is Congress actually involved with the USPS?
Consumers have expectations In terms of a good quality product that should be availed at a reasonable price. Consumers don’t only want the business to be socially responsible towards them in this manner of reasonable prices but way beyond this. They should meet the needs of consumers in ways of convenience and appearance. But business should also consider other aspects like environmental impact when packaging is disposed.
In 1913, C.J. Tower & Sons, forerunner to FedEx Trade Networks subsidiary FedEx Trade Networks Transport & Brokerage, begins operation as a customs broker in Niagara Falls, N.Y. It was not until 1971 that Federal Express Corporation was founded in Little Rock, Ark. In 1975, FedEx installed the first drop box for the public and since then the company developed and maintained a strategic leadership in managing a broad group of transportation services, e-commerce and other business services. The company offers integrated business solutions through a network of subsidiaries operating independently, including: FedEx Express, the world's largest express transportation company; FedEx Ground, North America's second largest provider of small-package ground delivery service; FedEx Freight, a leading provider of regional less-than-truckload freight services; FedEx Custom Critical, the world's largest provider of expedited time-critical shipments; and FedEx Trade Networks, a provider of customs brokerage, consulting, information technology and trade facilitation solutions. (www.fedex.com)