Memo to USPS: Don't Slow Down the Mail "But the USPS is unlikely to find a panacea in the degradation of its service standards. The National Postal Policy Council notes, “The Postal Service’s own estimate (which in past cases have materially overestimated the actual cost savings it experienced) is that the net effect of the service standard degradation would be an annual increase in net income of $169.5 million…That equates to only 0.23 percent of the Postal Service’s annual $73.1 billion in revenues.” In other words, America’s mail carrier is risking its entire reputation on a change that would barely add to USPS coffers."