📋 Tender Overview
The United States Postal Service reported new delivery performance metrics through the first two weeks of the fiscal third quarter. For the week ending April 15 and the third consecutive week First-Class Mail on-time delivery performance was nearly 94 percent. Through the first two weeks of the third quarter the average time for delivery of a mailpiece across the postal network was 2.4 days.Third quarter service performance scores covering April 1 through April 15 includedFirst-Class Mail 93.6 percent of First-Class Mail delivered on time against the USPS service standard an increase of 5.7 percentage points from the fiscal second quarter.Marketing Mail 95.4 percent of Marketing Mail delivered on time against the USPS service standard an increase of 2.8 percentage points from the fiscal second quarter.Periodicals 87.7 percent of Periodicals delivered on time against the USPS service standard an improvement of 5.8 percentage points from the fiscal second quarter.One of the goals of Delivering for America the Postal Services 10-year plan for achieving financial sustainability and service excellence is to meet or exceed 95 percent on-time service performance for all mail and shipping products once all elements of the plan are implemented. Service performance is defined by the Postal Service as the time it takes to deliver a mailpiece or package from its acceptance into our system through its delivery as measured against published service standards.The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage products and services to fund its operations.
