postal reform

Sep 8th

Carper, Coburn Call on Senate Appropriations Committee to Oppose Proposed Moratorium; Support Comprehensive Postal Reform

Sep 08 2014 – WASHINGTON – Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) sent a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee late Friday to caution the Members about implementing a moratorium on postal facility closures and urge support for the bipartisan, comprehensive the Postal Reform […]

Sep 6th

More than Half of Senate Now Backs Call to Stop USPS Consolidations

09/06/2014 – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has added his high-profile support to calls for a one-year moratorium on USPS plans to close 82 mail processing plants and slow mail delivery. Reid has joined 50 other senators who signed a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee calling for a ban on USPS cuts to be […]

Sep 4th

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Backs Bid to Stop Postal Service Cuts

Sept. 4 – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has added his crucial backing to calls for a one-year moratorium on U.S. Postal Service plans to close up to 82 mail processing plants, slow down mail delivery and eliminate up to 15,000 jobs. Reid added his signature to those of 50 other senators who signed […]

Aug 20th

Deputy PMG: USPS reports quarterly losses in the $2 billion range due to pre-funding

How bad is the outlook for the Postal Service? Ronald Stroman, deputy postmaster general, doesn’t hesitate. We’re defaulting on our retiree health benefit obligations, he explains. We owe the Treasury $15 billion, he says. First class mail volume is declining about 4 percent a year, he notes. The Post Office should spend about $10 billion […]

Aug 13th

Video: Postmaster General blames Congress for $2 Billion loss

The Postal Service needs help from Congress to stop the red ink, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told CNBC on Wednesday. Despite an increase in package revenues and an emergency price hike that took effect in January, the agency said Monday it lost $2 billion in the second quarter. “The problem we face … is we […]

Aug 12th

Issa on $2 Billion Postal Service Loss: Bailout Not the Answer

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today released the following statement on news that the U.S. Postal Service posted a $2.1 Billion loss in the most recent quarter: “The Postal Service’s latest reported loss illustrates the urgent need for postal reform to prevent a taxpayer funded bailout of the Postal Service,” […]

Aug 4th

Senators Seek to Protect 15,000 Postal Jobs by stopping USPS from closing 80+ facilities

A group of lawmakers is urging colleagues who are drafting spending bills to prohibit the U.S. Postal Service from moving forward with its plan to close 80 more processing facilities. The Postal Service announced last month that in January 2015 it would begin the previously delayed second phase of its “network rationalization” plan. Twenty-two senators […]

Jul 11th

Six-Day Delivery Continues to Be Ground Zero, November elections impact on USPS

eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin Six-Day Delivery Continues to Be Ground Zero It’s no secret that the US Postal Service has a decades-old desire to secure control of delivery frequency. Presently, the six-day delivery mandate is located in annual appropriations bill that, in part, provide postage subsidies to nonprofit mailers, and funds free mail-for-the-blind and […]

Jun 25th

Serrano Amendment Passes Restoring Six Day Delivery Requirement

Washington, DC – June 25, 2014 – Today, Congressman José E. Serrano succeeded in restoring language to an annual appropriations bill requiring the United States Postal Service to maintain six day delivery.  The bipartisan amendment, which Congressman Serrano sponsored with Congressman Tom Latham (R-IA), passed and was added to the fiscal year 2015 Financial Services […]

Jun 24th

Congressional Budget Office: Postal Reform Would Save USPS $23.6 Billion

$19 billion of those savings would result from moves to five-day delivery and cluster boxes, says the Congressional Budget Office. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a financial analysis of the House Postal Reform Act (H.R. 2748) that estimates that, if passed, it would return $23.6 billion in savings to the troubled U.S. Postal […]