The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has issued an evaluation of the Delivering For America initiative, more commonly known as Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan to consolidate and slow mail delivery.

The evaluation was issued on Jan. 31. It is highly critical of the 10-year plan, which so far has exceeded projected costs. The evaluators considers the plan to be defective.

The PR evaluation has been in the works for months.

The evaluation says that the Postal Service is irreversibly changing its network without laying a foundation for success and urged the service “to reconsider whether the speculative, meager gains
from this proposal outweigh the certain downgrade in service for a significant portion of the
nation.”

The report said:

• the Postal Service’s plan depends on defective modeling and does not appear to be ready for implementation.

• the Postal Service relies on overly optimistic and unsubstantiated financial projections for cost savings that are not likely to improve the financial health of the Postal Service.

• the Postal Service’s proposal has significant negative impacts on rural communities throughout the United States.

• it is unlikely that the Postal Service will create a more efficient network compared to the legacy network.

The summary and complete report is available on the PRC website. Scroll and look for this image:

The report contains supplementary materials, including a Nov. 22 letter expressing concerns and criticisms from Rep. Adrian Smith of Nebraska and other members of Congress.

It is unclear at this time what the impact of the PRC report will be. The Postal Board of Governors, which oversees the postal service as well as Postmaster General DeJoy, will meet on Thursday, Feb. 6 and could react.

The meeting is public. You can listen live online, starting at 10 a.m. ET.

When the PRC report was issued, it was sent to the Postal Board of Governors, to members of Congress, and released to the public.

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