THE WORST WEEK WE EVER MEASURED FOR FIRST-CLASS LETTERS
Just a terrible week for First-Class letters. Only 72.5% were delivered on time – we’ve seen worse, but that is bad. More troubling was the fact that 14.7% of First-Class letters were more than 5 days late. The average delivery days were above 5 days. That is the worst we have measured for any week since we began generating these traffic reports. Comparatively, delivering 75% of First-Class flats suddenly looks good. It’s not.
First-Class letters originating in Philadelphia and Palatine averaged more than 10 days to be delivered. Mail from Honolulu arrived faster. First-Class letters delivering in New Orleans, Kansas City (MO and KS), all took more than 9 days to deliver.
Marketing Mail letters and flats remained well below historic averages at 93% and 85% on time, respectively. These both used to be reliably over 95% week after week. Marketing Mail letters to New Orleans, Mandeville, LA, took more than 10 days to deliver on average.
