Postal Service to End Same-Day Delivery Experiment
The U.S. Postal Service will end a same-day delivery experiment in San Francisco on March 1 after it could not find enough retailers to participate, Bloomberg News reported.
The program only generated $760 in revenue and delivered 95 packages. The goal was 200 packages a day, the Postal Service said in a report.
According to the report, the agency did not implement the program properly and failed to induce large retailers to take part.
“The Postal Service was left with small local retailers that could not produce the target daily package volume,” the report said.
The plan was for customers to order products online by 2 p.m. and then have it delivered before 8 p.m.
The Postal Service began the program to compete with FedEx and UPS Inc. for delivery business with online retailers, Bloomberg reported.
