Rep. Susan Davis Re-Introduces Bipartisan Resolution to Protect Door Delivery of Mail

Jan 6, 2017 – Press Release WASHINGTON – With the United States Postal Service already beginning to phase out of door delivery of mail, Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-CA) re-introduced her bipartisan H. Res. 28 stressing that door delivery must not end. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) joined Davis as lead cosponsors…

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NALC President Rolando: Postal Service red ink results from congressional interference

If Congress fixes retirement pre-funding, rural and Saturday service would not need to be cut. Your Aug. 2 editorial (“Our View: Bleak message for patrons of rural post offices in Maine, nationwide”) properly emphasized the importance of rural post offices for Maine, and more broadly the role of the U.S. Postal Service, which does so…

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Door Slamming on Home Mail Delivery?

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…

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Mail delivery to your door could end

Mail delivery to the door could become a thing of the past for many. Currently, 37 million American homes and businesses get mail delivered at the doors. Now, about 15 million of them are at risk of losing home delivery, if House Republicans have their way. It will only affect homes that get deliveries at…

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NPR: The Troubled US Postal Service, And How We Communicate Now (audio)

  – With guest host John Donvan. Getting mail at the front door may soon be history – as Congress tries to save the Postal Service. We’ll look at the future of who delivers what and where and how in America. It’s one of the happier sounds of city life. The clunk in the door…

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