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GAOREPORTS
Legislative Agency Publications
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legislative
2010-08-12
U.S. Government Printing Office
1994-02-04
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GA 1.13:GGD-94-85
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GGD-94-85
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2010-08-12
2011-03-28
GAOREPORTS-GGD-94-85
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REPORT
GAOREPORTS-GGD-94-85
GGD-94-85
Postal rates
Budget receipts
Postal service contracts
Cost control
Public administration
Postal service
Mail transportation operations
Productivity
Cost analysis
Administrative costs
National Performance Review
Letter Report
GGD
U.S. Postal Service: Newly Designed Retail Store Revenues Exceed Operating Costs
In response to customer complaints about long lines at post offices and
the lack of self-service areas for stamps and other items, the U.S.
Postal Service has opened 23 retail stores since 1989 and has plans to
open 20 more in 1994. These retail stores offer the same services as
found at traditional post offices but boast more business and
communication services, such as fax, E-Mail, and word processing,
provided by commercial parcel and retail mail services. Fourteen of the
16 retail stores that had been in operation for at least a year were
profitable at the end of fiscal year 1993; overall revenues were 2.5 to
6 times greater than operating costs. Not enough data were available to
estimate revenues and costs for the other two stores. New store
locations are chosen on the basis of customer need and convenience--the
same criteria used to select traditional post office sites.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GGD-94-85/html/GAOREPORTS-GGD-94-85.htm
GAO/GGD-94-85
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GGD-94-85
Letter Report
GAO/GGD-94-85; U.S. Postal Service: Newly Designed Retail Store Revenues Exceed Operating Costs;
Postal rates
Budget receipts
Postal service contracts
Cost control
Public administration
Postal service
Mail transportation operations
Productivity
Cost analysis
Administrative costs
National Performance Review