President Donald Trump Ordered the Creation of a Task Force to Review Business Practices at the United States Postal Service Just as Senate Holds Hearings on his Three Nominations to its Board of Governors Which Currently Has no Members
PHILADELPHIA, April 24, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — S. David Fineman, Former Chair of the United States Postal Board of Governors, has released the following statement on “postal politics.”
The Postal Service should not be a political football. We should move ahead with providing needed oversight of the system.
It has been eight years since the Senate approved a nominee to the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service. Since last December there is not one member serving on the nine-member Board because of expired terms. No one is overseeing the postal system. It is a rudderless ship. It was profitable and can still be profitable.
President Obama’s nominations to the Board of Governors never received Senate Hearings. I am encouraged that the Senate has finally held hearings on President Trump’s three nominees. He needs to make additional nominations so that the US Postal Service Board of Governors can have a full complement to do its very important work.
The nine Governors are nominated for a seven-year term, by the President of the United States and require Senate approval. They make up the “Board” along with the Postmaster General and Deputy Postmaster General (both chosen by the nine Governors). By law, the Board must be made up of five members of one party and four members of the other party. The Board is comparable to a board of directors of a private corporation. This bipartisan Board without political influence needs to be constituted immediately.
The USPS serves every citizen in the United States, every residential and business address.
- 153.9 billion mail pieces were processed and delivered by the 640,000 postal employees in 2016
- And it had an operating revenue of $74.1 billion.
- And 5.98 million passport applications were accepted at the 31,585 Postal Service-managed retail offices.
Note to Editor: David served as a member of the Board of Governors, first appointed by President Clinton, from 1995 – 2005. And under President Bush he served as Chair of the Board of Governors from 2003 – 2005. He also served as Chairman of the Advisory Board of DHL ecommerce, the largest mail consolidator of small parcels in the United States, from 2007 to 2017.
SOURCE S. David Fineman
please explain to me how you have 95,000 lite/limited/IOD employees on the payroll……..some who are getting paid and have not been in a postal building in over 25 years…….this stuff only goes on in the Postal Circus. who let this crap fester for years and instead of fixing the problem, just swept it under the rug? audit, audit, audit the bejesus out of them…..heads should roll in po mismanagement! you can run but you can not hide.
LOL! You can’t be trump. no misspellings in your post.
Where are you getting this number? it isn’t in this article, what’s the source? It’s easy to throw numbers around.
Hello and good-day, tell me something-How is it that you will hear something in the order of such confirmations of said appointee’s but you can’t get a response from such things that really make sense like a buyout or retraining of Mismanagement or the concerns that really affect change that matters! Given that these are somewhat important positions and should be addressed/ NOTHING else is deemed very important for consideration as far as what is in the real world-It’s all about the upper crust that is the problem in the districts HQ and elephant plaza (use some common sense about real matters) and let’s move forward – NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! If there is going to be change it will be a negative impact at the lower levels that will take place, the baffoon’s at the top are not going to shoot themselves in the feet- they are going to pad their fat ass’s with more money. This clown show will keep going on and on! Sad isn’t it-I speak the truth and everyone that reads this know it’s the truth. Keep blowing billions of dollars and justify their worth and one day it will bite em on the ass real hard. They will make up some bullshit story that this is the only way and that everything is right in the world-RIGHT! GOOD-DAY
With proper leadership USPS can once again be a leader in the shipping business.
Many employees are top notch but all would admit that change is always a part of
good leadership.
You know that if the toolbags running the PO into
oblivion were replaced by real managers/supervisors
and the needless cuts in people/services were stopped
the PO wouldn’t be under Trumpies thumb. Get rid of
the waste down at the spa in DC. Three people for
every one job. There’s your real waste. Fir them all.
there he goes again…..PO Circus dopes have not paid a dime into prefunding since 2009…….former PMG Donehoe and Federal Government Accounting Office said the same thing-its a red herring, they are losing BILLIONS (over 130 since 2007) because of po mismanagement corruption, incompetence, & low IQ! answer is to load up on UPS/FDX/AMZN stock…..back up the truck and buy, buy, buy, its the only hedge you have against this dump.
If our leader was so interested in Postal operations making a profit he would end the health care cost prefunding! I know many of our leaders supporters insist that the postal service, and only the Postal Service, MUST prepay for health care costs because that’s just the way it is. Or they insist that the prefund crap has ended. If the Postal Service must make a profit than so should the Army, or Navy. Foreign aid so too should make a profit. The countries that receive handouts must pay back so the tax payer receives profits. When a business receives their wealthfare, they must pay back enough for a massive profit!