Strong Performance Continues Across All Mail Categories

The United States Postal Service reported new delivery performance metrics showing strong performance across all mail categories through the first three weeks week of the fiscal third quarter. For the week ending April 22 and the fifth consecutive week, 95 percent of Marketing Mail was delivered on time. For the fourth consecutive week, First-Class Mail on-time delivery performance was above 93 percent.

Through the first three 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 22 included:
*First-Class Mail: 93.4 percent of First-Class Mail delivered on time against the USPS service standard, an increase of 5.5 percentage points from the fiscal second quarter.
*Marketing Mail: 94.9 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: 87.0 percent of Periodicals delivered on time against the USPS service standard, an improvement of 5.5 percentage points from the fiscal second quarter.
more at: https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2022/0429-strong-performance-continues-across-all-mail-categories.htm

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