Regarding the April 28 editorial “Ceding Saturdays”: No, we should not end Saturday mail delivery. Eliminating six-day delivery would cause the U.S. Postal Service to lose customers and its competitive advantage while hurting senior citizens and rural America. Rather, we should make the Postal Service more competitive by allowing it to offer innovative new products and […]
In more than seven years’ service as a Commissioner, this is the first instance that I have felt compelled to present separate views regarding a Commission decision. This speaks not only to the deliberative process of the panel and consensus building that occurs among Commissioners, but also to the significance of this decision and gravity […]
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and co-author of the 2006 Postal Reform legislation (PAEA) that unions and some postal pundits say is bankrupting the Postal Service. Collins submitted the following letter to the PRC to voice her opposition to USPS rate increase request:
It appears the Washington Post has hit a new low by endorsing Congressman Darrell Issa’s Postal Service Reform bill and not offering a complete, objective analysis of the whole postal service situation:
From APWU: Postal customers concerned about the undoing of their postal service are speaking out. In recent op-eds featured in local newspapers, customers point out that much of the financial “reasoning” surrounding the Postal Service doesn’t hold water.
“I am informed that President Guffey alleges that I was provided the opportunity to defeat the PAEA when adopted in 2006. This is blatantly untrue but is irrelevant to voluntarily negotiating the worst contract in the history of bargaining. The PAEA did not force the officers to engage in aggressive bargaining over a 6 month […]
From Law 360 (July 27, 2012) Two private U.S. Postal Service operators filed a class action accusing the postal system of violating antitrust laws by forcing them to buy labels only from government contractor Innovations Group Inc. According to TOG Inc. and Wild Harvest LLC, so-called contract postal units that provide USPS services from private […]
Convenient Untruths When the postal service announced in November that it had incurred a $15.9 billion loss in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2012, newspaper editorial boards and anti-government politicians cited the figure as proof that the Postal Service is doomed. They bemoaned the USPS financial crisis and called for privatization of the […]
GAO Report On USPS: What GAO Found The Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund (PSRHBF) covered about 49 percent of the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) $94 billion retiree health benefit liability at fiscal year-end 2012. USPS’s deteriorating financial outlook, however, will make it difficult to continue the current prefunding schedule in the short term, and […]
Press Release from the OPM Office Of Inspector General Study of the Risks and Consequences of the USPS OIG’s Proposals to Change USPS’s Funding of Retiree Benefits: Shifting Costs from USPS Ratepayers to Taxpayers’ Washington, DC – (Feb. 28, 2011) Today, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office of the Inspector General (OPM OIG), […]