The U.S. Postal Service reported fourth-quarter service delivery performance data through the first week of August that showed continued improvement across all First-Class, Marketing and Periodical mail categories from the third quarter ended June 30.
Fourth-quarter service performance for July 1 through August 6 included:
*First-Class Mail: Delivered 88.9 percent of First-Class Mail on time against the USPS service standard, an improvement of 1.4 percentage points from the third quarter.
*Marketing Mail: Delivered 92.6 percent of Marketing Mail on time against the USPS service standard, an improvement of 1.6 percentage points from the third quarter.
*Periodicals: Delivered 82.9 percent of Periodicals on time against the USPS service standard, an improvement of 3.6 percentage points from the third quarter.
For the week of July 31 – August 6, Periodicals, including newspapers and magazines, reached the highest service performance level (84.8 percent) reported for that category in nearly a year and a half, since the week of March 28 – April 3, 2020 (85.3 percent).
The Postal Service’s recent service delivery improvements have been, in part, the result of a strategic shift to more ground deliveries, decreasing the agency’s reliance on the limited cargo capacities of third-party air carriers.
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2021/0812-usps-reports-continued-service-performance-improvements-for-all-mail-categories.htm