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Ep 267: USPS and the USA's big parcel and letter trends
Category: Business
Duration: 00:36:16
Publish Date: 2022-03-15 10:30:54
Description:

John Callan, CEO at Ursa Major Associates, joins me to talk about the US Postal Service as well as the state of the US letters and parcels markets. We cover:

  • Key takeaways from the Postal Reform Act, including impact on delivery as well as headline financial impacts
  • The new vehicle contract… and electric vehicles!
  • Volatility of fuel prices
  • US parcel volume trends
  • Bringing fulfilment centres closer to the consumer, and issues with 3PLs throttling volumes
  • Carrier consolidation via mergers and acquisitions
  • Consumers demanding greater visibility of their deliveries
  • Are we applying “pizza delivery” standards to products that don’t need to be delivered so fast?
  • Microfulfilments centres and dark stores
  • Developments with the USPS Parcel Select service, and FedEx and Amazon trying to shift volumes to their own networks
  • Amazon pumping parcel volumes into its DSP network
  • USPS losing the personal connection with residents - cluster box delivery
  • Letter volume trends
  • Delivery standards
  • Parcel lockers in the USA - can carrier-neutral lockers work in the USA?
  • Why the USPS’s own parcel locker network failed
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