Senator Bernie Sanders

Dec 1st

Senators Send Bipartisan Letter Demanding USPS postpone planned plant closings

Senators demand Postal Service delay consolidation of mail processing facilities after Inspector General’s report indicates lack of transparency, inadequate impact studies, failure to properly inform public (December 1, 2014) WASHINGTON – Missouri U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt, along with a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues, today demanded a delay in the planned consolidation […]

Nov 14th

Senator Sanders: New PMG pursued damaging proposals to cut services and eliminate jobs

Postal Service Revenue Rises as Service Cuts Loom BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 14 – Calling on the Postal Service to avert damaging service cuts and job losses, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) pointed to a new report today [added by pr] that revenue for the mail delivery service rose by $569 million during the fiscal year […]

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 […]

Jul 25th

Senator Sanders at NALC Convention: Postal Service Revenue Rising

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday addressed the annual convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers. He drew standing ovations from the big convention crowd in Philadelphia for opposing cuts in services and jobs at the U.S. Postal Service at a time of rising revenue. Sanders is the chief sponsor of legislation to modernize the […]

May 3rd

Letter: Postal Service shouldn’t eliminate Saturday delivery

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 […]

Apr 2nd

Sanders: The Ryan Budget Is a Broken Record of Failed Trickle-Down Economics

For the past three years, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been trotting out the same conservative, top-down policies that have failed the nation’s middle- and working-class families, seniors, and the economy. The House Republican budget is built around the tenet that nearly everyone else must sacrifice in order to continue to give […]

Mar 5th

Senator Sanders: There’s No Need to End Saturday Mail Delivery

The U.S. Postal Service is one of our most popular and important government agencies. It provides universal service six days a week to every corner of America, no matter how small or remote. It supports millions of jobs in virtually every other sector of our economy. It provides decent-paying union jobs to some 500,000 Americans, […]