Lautenberg Statement on Postal Service Announcement WASHINGTON, DC—Today, U.S. Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, which has jurisdiction over the U.S. Postal Service, issued the following statement: “It is unfortunate that the U.S. Postal Service has made a unilateral decision to move to five-day delivery […]

The Postmaster General should be fired.  The Congress needs to block these cuts and closures.  The President should issue an executive order,” said Jamie Partridge, a retired letter carrier and west coast organizer with Communities and Postal Workers United, in response to the announcement that Saturday delivery would end in August.  The CPWU is calling […]

The news from the United States Postal Service that they will stop delivering first class mail on Saturdays starting this August. Whether this means an increase in other channels such as email, mobile, radio, and so on, is obviously not known, yet. Rest assured though marketers across the country, those who currently included direct mail […]

The smart thing for Congress to do would be to let USPS’s action stand and take it as a cue to address the Postal Service’s chronic problems. Certainly comprehensive reform legislation would be a better use of everyone’s time between now and August than disputing USPS’s plausible but aggressive interpretation of the law on Saturday […]

Wednesday’s announcement that the United States Postal Service would halt Saturday delivery to help fix its financial mess sounded like a good move for the deficit-laden agency. After all, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says it will save the post office $2 billion a year. But put in the context of $20 billion projected annual deficits, […]

As it faces a worsening financial situation and frustration with Congress mounts for failing to enact cost-cutting reform measures, the U.S. Postal Service announced on Wednesday that it will seek to phase out six-day delivery service later this year. However, of critical importance to online sellers, the agency said that it will continue to deliver […]