Posted on 08/23/2007 6:20:48 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
The US Postal Service and the Servicio Postal Mexicano (SEPOMEX) have signed an agreement to improve mail services between the United States and Mexico.
The USPS has agreed to help SEPOMEX in an effort to improve its management structure and processes, and re-engineer its operations.
SEPOMEX has agreed to work with the USPS in exploring and developing joint business opportunities and improving cross-border services.
SEPOMEX has struggled with inefficiency and security. Mexican citizens have reportedly lost confidence in the mail delivery provided and finded by the government.
Following an economic crisis in 1982 and earthquake destruction of postal facilities, the Mexican postal service lost delivery staff and service suffered.
In a poll conducted by researcher Parametria in 2005, nearly one third of the population considered SEPOMEX to be slow and said they prefer to use private messengers to hand-deliver documents. An additional 29 percent of citizens reported never having heard of SEPOMEX.
“The strategy of this agreement is to work together and determine areas where USPS has made efficiency gains that could be replicated by SEPOMEX,” said Yvonne Yoerger, media relations representative at the USPS.
“It will include SEPOMEX staff visiting US facilities to analyze procedures and equipment, again to see where improvements or best practices that have proven successful here can be implemented south of the border as well,” she continued.
The Mexican postal system handles about 700 million letters a year, which is roughly seven pieces per citizen. This pales in comparison to the USPS’s 200 billion pieces a year for an estimated population of 280 million.
Bulk mail accounts for 90 percent of the correspondence that SEPOMEX handles and this is one area that the USPS and SEPOMEX hope to improve reliability on.
Privately owned shippers have invested heavily in Mexican package delivery. DHL, FedEx and UPS all operate in Mexico.
Part of the reason that the package delivery service has grown in Mexico is due to a government-regulated monopoly that SEPOMEX has on lighter mail. According to Mexican constitutional law, all mail weighing below a kilogram must be delivered by SEPOMEX.
However, some private delivery services reportedly still find loopholes to this law through providing mailers certified delivery and other advanced service options to differentiate their business from that of a standard postal delivery.
The National Mexican Association of Courier Businesses includes about 30 members that serve more than 400,000 clients. Those companies post sales of $925 million in US currency a year. SEPOMEX hopes to regain some of this business by bringing in more efficiency.
The USPS will use its own transformation experience in supporting SEPOMEX. Since embarking on a strategic transformation in 2002, the USPS has taken an average of $1 billion out of its cost base annually, while making productivity gains.
The two agencies will form a joint service improvement and business development team to pursue initiatives in international express mail service, air-mail parcels, and package services.
Another key component of the agreement is collaboration to develop enhanced security procedures for all mail products.
USPS has agreed to support SEPOMEX in developing its own postal inspection group. This action will include the selection and hiring of postal inspectors as well as investment in their training.
Oh, great, the Post Office will show them how to do it right. hahahahaha.
LOL...talk about the blind leading the blind!
That they are trying to recover from an earthquake that happened twenty-five years ago tells you everything you need to know about Mexican efficiency.
“The USPS has agreed to help SEPOMEX in an effort to improve its management structure and processes, and re-engineer its operations.”
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And what ELSE can we do for Mexicans today ??? More problems of the Mexican “government” solved by the U.S. taxpayer and consumer....
Don’t you mean the “USPPS”?
Please name one national postal service which does it better?
THEY ARE DOOOOOOOMED!.............
Please name one national postal service which does it better?
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Interesting to note some historial trivia about our postal system. Before the government screwed it up and turned the U.S. Post Office into the USPS, it was one of the ONLY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES that actually produced a PROFIT. That money went back into the general fund. Everything the government touches turns to.....well, you get the idea with all the postal rate increases....
If you take the first class postal rates (which I got from http://www.prc.gov/rates/stamphistory.htm ) and an inflation calculator (http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi) you can see that postal rates have pretty well matched Federal Reserve controlled currency devaluation the inflation rate.
I don't have any stats on lower classes of postage.
The problem is and always will be, BIG AXX Government will never solve any problem. It’s grubby existence is no more than raw power to extort from the productive segment in order to perpetuate a bunch of do nothing jobs and buy votes from the hanger ons and fund cronies for re-election cash!
The recent list of BIG AXX Government failures include:
War & Defense, Immigration, Education, Healthcare, UN support, Drug Wars, ... the list is endless!
The only success has been eliminating individual rights and freedoms!
Interesting. And truly, it costs about 1/4 of what it costs in Germany to simply mail a letter.
I did get a letter yesterday, on the other hand, that looked like it had made it through a couple of wars, come down from Seattle on the Pony Express through rain and hail. hahah. An amazingly trashed letter.
Well, now, that's CLEARLY in their charter.
Can I get off the globe now? We're getting silly.
WHY?
This is a good move. After seeing how the USPS gets things done, there will be SEPOMEX workers slaughtered by disgruntled employees in no time.
Right. First thing to establish is the UNION. That is first. Then spend millions and billions on salaries, free time off, vacations, nice uniforms, air conditioned buildings, longer breaks and lunch hours, less work hours, new trucks and $5 stamps. Then they should about be ready to train them to put my neighbor’s mail in my box and mine in his.
If they mean what they say, SEPOMEX brass will have to spend untold hours in sexual harassment re-education and diversity training.
Should go over big.
Out of about 10,000 packages shipped, only one was lost. This includes hundreds of overseas packages. I stopped buying insurance because problems are almost nonexistent. All guaranteed packages arrived on time.
I also did around 1000 packages by Fedex Express and it was also perfect. However, the cost is around double for the same service.
UPS was the worst. I used them for a few weeks and many packages were being reported damaged. Probably 1 in 10 were messed up.
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