Ep 311: USPS and cross-border deliveries

Jun 30, 2023

Kate Muth, Executive Director at IMAG, discusses cross-border delivery and the US Postal Service, including:

• USPS plans for international mail
• USPS's focus on domestic matters and business
• What pushed USPS rates high?
• Why USPS lost business during COVID
• What's the plan to win business back
• Competing on price
• Alternatives to competing on price
• Highlights of USPS research on international mail
• Decline in international revenue
• Net importer or net exporter of mail?
• List being the carrier of last resort, even in international sales.
• Stopping illicit substances in the mail
• AED / EAD
• Changing the de minimis threshold
• Where illicit drugs are entering the US and the mailstream
• AED on letters and large letters (flats)
• US legislation impacting the postal sector creating global standards
• WILDS - Women in Logistics and Delivery Sector - update