Postal Service Changing First-Class Mail and Package Deliveries Starting April 1

The decision was made after USPS suffered a loss of $9.5 billion in the most recent fiscal year.

Mail boxes at the front of a US Postal Service facility in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 13, 2020. Scott Olson/Getty Images

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has announced changes to its mail delivery times in a move that is expected to save billions of dollars.

The agency said it “will deliver 75 percent of First-Class Mail at the same standard; 14 percent will be upgraded to a faster standard; 11 percent will have a slower standard, but all will still be within the current 1–5 day service standard day range.”