H.R. 4670 Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014 The Essentials 1. For three years, Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has tried to sell his colleagues on a comprehensive postal reform bill. His rescue plan for the money-losing U.S. Postal Service includes ending Saturday letter delivery, closing some post offices, and consolidating the agency’s sprawling distribution…
WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., announced the mark up of H.R. 4670, the Secure Delivery for America (SDA) Act, which allows the postal service to provide millions more Americans with secure clusterbox and curbside delivery. The Committee will consider the bill, cosponsored by Subcommittee on Postal Service Chairman…
May 1, 2014 – (This article appears in the May-June 2014 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) John L. Marcotte, Legislative & Political Department Director It’s rarely quiet in the legislative arena, and as past President Moe Biller was fond of saying, “The struggle continues.” Senate bill 1950, which would have repealed a cut…
