performance-measurement
Every record this desk has filed under performance-measurement, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
The Postal Service made its own deadline longer, made its own pass mark lower, and still missed. When an organization grades itself, 'missed the target' is a statement about two numbers, and only one of them is performance.
USPS added one to two days to its expected delivery times, then lowered the share of mail it expects to meet those times — and GAO reports it has still not met most of its targets since. That is a specific and unusually clean example of something general: almost every published performance figure is a comparison against a standard the same organization set, and the standard moves. Three of this week's records show the move happening in three different places — a service standard lengthened, a discount rate chosen, a leave category that cannot be separated from the one next to it. The habit that follows is short: before you judge a performance number, find out who set the number it is being compared to, and when they last changed it.
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