(November 4, 2014) Unions and the business mailing industry, tired of years of stalled efforts on postal reform, are teaming up to try to push through legislation to help the U.S. Postal Service after Tuesday’s elections. Organized labor and the mailing industry — which includes banks, catalog companies and a slew of other sectors reliant…
Thousands of Oregonian and millions of American households would no longer receive door-to-door mail delivery service under legislation proposed by Representative Daryl Issa (R-CA). Instead, a growing number of households will be assigned to a local “cluster” box, where mail is distributed by U.S. postal workers to a collection of curbside mail boxes for multiple…
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,”…
Late last month, postal banking progressed from policy circle rumblings to proposed legislation. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) sponsored the Providing Opportunities for Savings, Transactions, and Lending (POSTAL) Act on July 23rd. This legislation would empower your local post office to provide both checking and savings accounts, offer small-dollar loans and prepaid “postal cards,” distribute money…
In the neighborhoods of tomorrow, door-to-door mail delivery will be a thing of the past. If U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) gets his way, door-to-door delivery will be gone within a decade for 15 million addresses. Issa estimates $2 billion in savings from the bill approved on Wednesday by the House Committee on Oversight and…
The United States Postal Service (USPS) management just ran into a possible game-changing obstacle to its shameful pursuit of a fully privatized post office: labor solidarity. Here’s the background. For a decade the USPS has been aggressively shrinking, consolidating, and outsourcing the nation’s postal system. In July 2011 management upped the ante by announcing the…
The member of Congress who wrote the 2006 law that has been widely blamed for the United States Postal Service’s financial crisis is defending that act but warning that lawmakers are unlikely to come quickly to the agency’s rescue. Former House Committee on Government Reform chairman Tom Davis laid that forecast before a July 16…
Published on Jul 17, 2014 At a July 16 conference hosted by The Pew Charitable Trusts, Congressman Darrell Issa (CA) shares his concerns about the U.S. Postal Service Inspector General report proposing that the USPS offer financial services targeted to consumers without access to mainstream, affordable financial products. Congressman Issa says that, “If our goal…
