National Association of Postal Supervisors released the following draft of Congressman Darrell Issa’s Postal Reform bill discussion.
It appears Issa is taking a suggestion from Canada Post regarding the ‘pay for fee’ door-to’ door delivery
NAPS: Rep. Darrell Issa (D-CA), chair of the House oversight committee, is drafting a new stripped-down postal bill that he says tracks the Obama Administration’s primary proposals for overhauling the Postal Service. (It doesn’t, at least not entirely.)
Issa could introduce his new measure as early as next week, after Congress returns from its two-week Easter/Passover recess. A discussion draft of the new legislation, released by Issa’s staff, is here. Issa’s controversial and sweeping postal reform bill (H.R. 2748), proposed last year, continues to languish in the House and is unlikely to be brought to the floor. Whether this new bill is destined to go further, or is largely a political charade designed to test the allegiance of House Democrats to the White House, remains uncertain.
H.R.____,
the Administration’s Postal Reform Act of 2014
[Discussion Draft]
SEC. 1. Short Title & Table of Contents
SEC. 2. NATIONWIDE MAIL DELIVERY SCHEDULE
• Permits the Postal Service to reduce the delivery of first class mail to five days per week. Requires the Postal Service to deliver of packages six days per week until December 31, 2018.
• Ensures that first-class mail will not go undelivered for more than two consecutive days.
• Permits periodicals, newspapers and unstamped mail to be placed in mailboxes on days when the Postal Service does not provide mail delivery service. (This provision was not included in the President’s Postal Reform proposals.)
SEC. 3. STATE AND LOCAL NONPOSTAL SERVICES
• Permits the Postal Service to provide non-postal services to any State, local or tribal government. States that such services shall provide value to the public by lowering the costs of the services, increasing the quality of the services or making the services more physically accessible.
• Requires that each service cover at least 100% of its attributable costs.
• Requires that the public have 90 days to comment on any new service before it is implemented and requires that new services be approved by two-thirds of the Board of Governors.
• Requires the Postal Service to submit to the PRC an annual report analyzing the costs, revenues, rates and quality of non-postal services provided.
• Requires the Inspector General to audit the data reported by Postal Service on the non-postal services offered under this authority. .
SEC. 4. DELIVERY-POINT MODERNIZATION
• Requires that new addresses must receive mail at a curbside box or centralized
• Requires the Postal Service to convert all businesses from door delivery to a curbside box or centralized to the maximum extent feasible.
• Requires the Postal Service to identify residential addresses within their service area that are appropriate candidates for conversion to curbside or centralized delivery.
• Requires the Postal Service to convert residential addresses from door delivery to curbside or centralized delivery on a voluntary basis where possible and authorizes the Postal Service to require such conversions in areas the Postal Service “deems appropriate.” (The President’s Postal Reform proposal would permit conversions from door delivery to curbside or centralized delivery but would not authorize the Postal Service to require such conversions.)
• Permits the Postal Service to create a waiver program for addresses where residents have physical disabilities or hardships.
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• Permits the Postal Service to create a “Legacy Door Delivery Service” that allows residents to pay a fee to continue to receive door delivery if their addresses have been identified for conversion to curbside or centralized delivery. (This provision was not included in the President’s Postal Reform proposals.)
SEC. 5. POST OFFICE PROTECTION
• Requires that when the Postal Service is assessing whether to close or consolidate a post office, it must consider discontinuing the post office; reducing the number of hours per day; or providing postal services at a similar facility through a contractual postal unit or through the use of a letter carrier.
• Permits the Postal Service to conduct a nonbinding survey to allow postal patrons to indicate their preferences among these options.
• Requires the Postal Service to provide patrons at least 60 days’ notice prior to closing or consolidating a post office.
SEC. 6. RETIREEE HEALTH BENEFIT FUNDING REFORM
• Requires the Postal Service to pay half of the pre-funding payments required in 2015 and 2016 under current law (the Postal Service would owe $2.85 billion on September 30, 2015 and $2.9 billion on September 30, 2016).
SEC. 7. SPECIFIC RETIREMENT LIABILITY CALCULATIONS RELATING TO THE POSTAL SERVICE
• Requires OPM to also use postal-specific assumptions and demographics when determining the Postal Service’s liability to the Civil Service Retirement System account starting for fiscal year 2013.
SEC. 8. ONE-TIME FEDERAL EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM PROJECTED PENSION SURPLUS REFUND
• Requires the Director of OPM to compute the amount of the Postal Service’s over-payment to the FERS account no later than September 1, 2014 using postal-specific demographic criteria.
• Requires the Director of OPM to return one-half of any surpluses resulting from this recalculation to the Postal Service on each of September 30, 2014 and September 30, 2015.
via The National Association of Postal Supervisors. – See more at: http://www.postal-reporter.com/blog/issa-prepares-postal-reform-lite/#more-7645
5 day Mail 6 day Packages
5 days an consolation plants= 100K employees downsize= buyouts.
I won’t be voting for any Republicans Ever.
no postal bills are going anywhere until at least after the election…… most likely a year from now we will be still talking about the same stuff
Republican will not only have the house there is a great chance of having the Senate too….Wake up people …5 day here we come
“This Is It” for Issa the house mouse!
a lot of people had really great ideas and comments, but heres another if the government is admitting to the over payment of the pensions why not just switch that money to the health plan payments missed and still pending and just call the USPS payment fee, rather then try and fix what is not broke and is actually starting to show improvement. Congress just needs to leave it alone and move on to the important things like the millions of Americans still out of work and on welfare or food stamps not because they don’t want to work but can’t get a job.
ISSA IS IN A HURRY TO PUSH THIS SHIT THRU BECAUSE HIS CHAIRMANSHIP RUNS OUT AT THE END OF THE YEAR-ALSO-ELECTIONS ARE BEING HELD– COULD SPELL THE END OF THE REPUBLICAN STRANGLEHOLD ON THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
This is Awsome people. 5 day here we come. Screw the unions who only cares about numbers high for their dues. They do nothing for you but steal your money. 5 day here we come. Keep blamimg Issa when your president Mr. Obama a (DEM.) wants the same thing…Stop the blame and wake up people
ISSA IS PLAIN STUPID…….PEOPLE LIKE HIM IS Y THIS COUNTRY IS SINKING LIKE THE TITANIC!!!!!
The very concept of universal service included that such delivery service be free to all citizens and businesses. While centralizing new delivery is one thing, which would save a lot of physical wear and tear on carriers in especially brutal winter climates, rather than charge a fee which nobody will pay, the system should remain as is, with hardship delivery available at no extra cost to the customer. Mr. Issa, that’s what stamps are for, you idiot.
You hate the Service. You want it to go the way of Wal-Mart so you and your rich power monger asshole legislators can sink their greedy claws in, and kill more organized labor to boot, so eager are you to return to the horrifying days of the industrial revolution of the late 1800-early 1900’s. Your hatred of all who are not equally rich and powerful is transparent, yet because you come from a rich district you wield enormous and unfair power over everybody. Only Republicans are stupid enough to vote in a car thief and arsonist. There is no honor among morons and thieves.
Issa is a Republican, commonly noted with R-CA, NOT D-CA. While addressing the FERS overpayment of $12 BILLION to be returned to the USPS, it completely ignores the much larger estimated overpayment to the CSRS accounts to the tune of $50-$75 BILLION. What happened to THAT money?
This measure “ensures that 1st class mail will not go undelivered more than two days”……..but if you stop Saturday delivery and Monday is a holiday, that’s 3 days. The “Legacy Door Delivery Service” is as insulting as it is stupid. You now want to charge citizens for a constitutionally mandated service?
Cutting the bogus prefunding requirement in half doesn’t make it valid. Look, I expect this nonsense from a Republican; they want to privatize, and all these measures chip away at the core function. But for the Obama Administration to go along with any of this is outrageous. Barry, your first clue should be that you agree with Issa. Are you also going to side with Rand Paul, another ditzy Republican whose only offering to the Senate reform measure is to allow guns in the building? Disgusting.
issa wants to open your mailbox to anyone his pals from fedex on days postal service does not deliver did he say days?
Lets gut the service that we provide to the American people and kill what ever trust and service we provide. People are already upset with the post office. Lets piss them of even more by making them walk to a cluster box or worse expose those cluster boxes to people willing to destory them or break into them to steal whats in side. Issa needs to be remove from office. He has no clue as to what anyone but the rich company’s trying to buy him.
Just return the FERS overpayment and forget all this other horse manure. Charging a fee for door delivery?! BAHAHAHA that just killed the bill Issa, you stupid fool.
BLA BLA BLA BLA, same ole same ole….these idiots can’t pour p— out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel…..maybe next year…..
Don’t you just love it
America is going to miss the free old P.O.