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The Postal Service is seeing increasing pressure from lawmakers to slow down its plans to revamp the Postal network. The latest move is a letter sent May 8 to the Board of Governors (BOG) from a bipartisan group of senators led by Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The letter calls on the BOG and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy “to pause planned changes to the U.S.
Postal Service’s (USPS) processing and delivery network under the ‘Delivering for America’ plan, until
you request and receive a comprehensive Advisory Opinion from the Postal Regulatory Commission to
fully study the potential impacts of these changes.” The letter points out the Postal Service is claiming its
network changes will improve service and cut costs but “there is evidence to the contrary in locations
where USPS has implemented changes so far. USPS must stop implementation, restore service in those
areas where changes were implemented, and fully understand the nationwide effects of its plan on
service and communities,” the senators said. During a recent hearing of the Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee, DeJoy stated that the Postal Service would consider requesting an
Advisory Opinion – and suggested that USPS may slow down “mail move” changes in 2024, the letter

states, adding, “Disappointingly, the Postmaster General did not commit to the scope of an Advisory
Opinion, or to meaningfully stopping changes until further study is complete.”