The U.S. Postal Service on Thursday said it needs to shave more costs from its operations to get into better financial shape. To do that, the postal agency wants to overhaul its delivery logistics, resulting in some customers likely seeing a slowdown in their mail delivery.
I’d never want to have life-saving meds sent through the USPS.
You can get specialized services for shipping pharmaceuticals to your pharmacy, like what FedEx offers..
The pharmacy in question is CVS Specialty, and they already offer shipping direct to a local pharmacy.
That doesn’t really change the calculus that if it is sent via USPS, and USPS has slowdowns, that it may take dangerously too long to arrive.
They don’t really let you choose what partner they’re going to ship with, so it’s a “you get what you get” situation and I can’t ask for FedEx specifically if I wanted it. They ship with whatever’s cheapest to them at a given time.
That’s a real shame, really.
Perhaps this threat of mail slowdown will prompt CVS to use other providers. I can’t imagine they’ll want to jeopardize their customer’s health and safety by using an unreliable and slow method of shipping critical medication.
Resorting to a private service because USPS is prevented from doing its job is exactly what the saboteurs want.
Saboteurs, IE Republicans.