The US Postal Service will now deliver all mail on the same slower schedule

The US Postal Service wants to change how it measures delivery times for most mail, moving from product-specific standards to a single, slower standard. This means First-Class Mail, magazines, marketing mail, and packages will all be delivered on a schedule based on the slowest current First-Class Mail delivery times.

For decades, the Postal Service has operated with separate networks and delivery standards for different types of mail. This proposal means the agency is formally giving up on faster delivery for First-Class Mail in favor of a single, integrated, and slower network. It is a quiet admission that the old system is broken and cannot be fixed, only replaced with something simpler and cheaper to run.