From Postcom.org: Elijah Cummings (D-MD) has provided a draft of his approach to postal legislative reform. Our very quick reading of the draft indicates the following key points:
- The USPS will appoint a Chief Innovation Officer
- Procedures will be put in place to ensure he does the job
- The costs and revenues from innovative services shall be reported and reviewed.
- The USPS may provide nonpostal services using its current resources including “technology” and “other resources” subject to a public interest test.
- All market dominant services must cover attributable costs and make a contribution to overhead recovery. (No underwater products.)
- The PRC should revisit the cap and see if something better results from placing the cap over the aggregate of market dominant services rather than by class.
- USPS gains authority to ship wine and beer.
- Flat rate media/book rates are repealed.
- All postal board and regulatory commission travel expenses are to be reported and audited.
- USPS may compensate up to six very senior executives up to an amount of no more than $199,700.
- USPS may compensate other officers and executives no more than $178,700
- No fringes paid to senior executives may exceed that which is provided to postal supervisors and managers.
- No bonuses are to be paid if the USPS can’t meet long-term solvvency and budget balancing requirements.
- There are several provisions designed to safeguard employees in the event there is a need to downsize personnel or consolidate or close facilities.
- First year FERS excess to be used to pay down postal borrowing.
- Subsequent FERS excesses to be used to pay against other postal obligations.
- Pre-funding to be reamortized to accomplish an 80% satisfaction of obligation by September 30, 2053.
- USPS must report on projected workforce needs based on actual and reasonably anticipated workload requirements.
- USPS may introduce new classes of mail.
- Products covered by the monopoly must take into account “due regard” to private sector entitites providing or using such services.
There should be no bonuses period. Management is paid a salary and gets the same COLAS as the craft employees. Bonuses will only make it more possible for management to cook the books in favor of themselves.
Each class of mail should pay for its self. No more giving priority to political mailings. If they want it delivered like first class then pay for that service.
Lastly. The free mailing for blind and handicapped must be maintained and congress must reimburse the postal service for these mailings.
Most 3rd class mail is an underwater product. Are they going to drop the service.
Cummings is not on our side because he also sided with Issa on allowing lay offs and dissolving our unions !!! WTF!!! Didn’t take long to buy his vote!!!
What about the early outs for letter carriers?
Cut Saturday!!
fvc, if you read it, the funding will be re-amortized to be 80% funded by 2053. There is already almost enough to cover that level of funding, and the future payments would be spread out over the next 40 years, easily resulting in almost no more payments per year. This is the best idea to come out of any congressperson in ages. Finally someone has the intelligence to see we need to grow our way out of this problem, not cut our way out as Isshole and the PMG want to do.
Thank you Congressman Cummings for you support believe in the service and the ideas to help The Postal Service. I wished we had more members of Congress to speak positive of the service. I wished we had more members of Congress do more for their constituents then for their colleagues. God bless you.
What you talkin about Willis ??
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stop the discounts for pre sort, we the USPS can short it quicker and faster then any other agency in the business, so why the discount. We the USPS need the money we are giving the presorters. how about that idea Also can you put some sort of responsiblity to supervisor who make bad and costly action, like working all people over time when there is no mail and you have a holiday and Sunday, the mail go noware but they are working day off and over time. WHAT!!
This is a good start but doesn’t address increasing revenue or contribution enough. Raise media mail rates but not to point of UPS minimum rates. Decrease difference in full rate and presort rates to capture some of the profits from presort houses. A 1 cent pullback would generate much needed revenue and would help offset the health prefunding. Are the presort houses funding any of the $5.5 billion a year for this cost? Go back to the 3 year cycle of raising rates. It worked for years.
issa must be kept in check good for us rep Cummings ,is on our side need more democrats in this fight
Congressman Cummings is on the right track. FINALLY, a Congressman and a Reform approach, that makes sense!
Thank You!