USPS Speed Check: New Metrics for Your Mailbox Blues
Published Date: 9/15/2025
Notice
Summary
The Postal Service wants to update how it measures delivery speed for its main mail products. These changes affect anyone who sends or receives mail and aim to make tracking service faster and clearer. The public can share their thoughts soon, and these updates could shape mail service rules and performance reports.
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Postal delivery speed measurement update
The Postal Service plans revisions to its Service Performance Measurement (SPM) Plan for Market Dominant products (Docket No. PI2025-6), which the Commission will consider as part of Docket No. RM2024-9. The change is meant to measure delivery speed differently and make tracking service faster and clearer for people who send or receive mail.
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