Republican attack against the United States Postal Service grows, as the do-nothing Congress down make your mail delivery significantly slower. Ed Schultz and Sen. Bernie Sanders discuss. via 15,000 postal service jobs could disappear | MSNBC.
Leave it to Congress to botch the operation of a government entity that seeks no federal funds or taxpayer dollars. And leave it to members of Congress to ignore a solution that is right in front of them. âNuttyâ is the new normal in our nationâs capital and Exhibit A is how Congress â with…
The Postal Service is facing âan unprecedented financial crisisâ and will be unable to fix its problems unless Congress gives the organization more flexibility, a new report concludes. USPS has about $22 billion in assets and $113 billion in liabilities, including liabilities related to a law that requires the organization to âprefundâ health benefits for…
Hundreds of Roanoke postal workers’ jobs will be eliminated. (July 5, 2014) Most Americans have never heard of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. The mind-numbing title alone sounds like it could put a hardcore insomniac to sleep. The truth is, itâs one of the most insane laws Congress ever enacted. Itâs past…
By Dr. Walter Brasch Unless your life is centered upon an iPhone, an iPad, and an iEverything else, there is a possibility you may have actually bought a postage stamp, written a letter, and mailed it. Contrary to popular opinion, snail-mail isnât dead. Every day, the U.S. Postal Service handles about 660 million pieces of…
(July 3, 2014) The U.S. Postal Service said this week that it would begin shuttering dozens of mail processing centers next year, a move it said was necessary because of congressional inaction on postal reform. The USPS, which has lost more than $28 billion since the start of fiscal 2011, says that a new round…
The Postal Service is focused on growing revenue, but the organization remains stymied by its outdated business model, CFO Joe Corbett told the nationâs top chief financial officers recently. âWe need to continue doing what we are doing â and we need legislation from Congress to change our business model so that we can be…
The U.S. Postal Service has lost about $2.5 billion since the early 1980s delivering goods to Alaskaâs remote villages. The program, called the Alaska Bypass, was created in part to help curb the otherwise high cost of shipping groceries to Alaska Natives. Critics say the savings are not passed on to customers and are pressing…
