The United States Postal Service delivers mail to every single address in the country.
It connects rural communities and helps contribute to public safety by delivering essential goods like medication and supplies.
It’s often referred to as snail mail, but in Corpus Christi some postal workers said the region could see even further delays as part of a master plan titled Delivering for America .
“What they are trying to do is revamp and upgrade the delivery standards, but it is going to have the opposite effect,” said Alex Barrera, president of the American Postal Workers Union Corpus Christi.
The USPS “Delivering for America 10-year plan, which includes an investment of $40 billion, aims to revers a projected $160 billion in projected losses over the next ten years.
According to the USPS report, “our processing, transportation, and delivery network is increasingly misaligned with the products we accept, process, transport, and deliver, because of our reliance on facilities, trucks, and delivery tools that were originally designed for much higher letter mail volume, far smaller packages, and far lower package volume.”