Darrell Issa has been waging an under-the-radar campaign to save the Postal Service for years now. The most recent iteration of his plan, the Postal Reform Act, would save $17 billion over the next ten years for the USPS. The major changes would be giving the USPS the ability to eliminate Saturday delivery and encouraging…
Web News Article #: 125-14 June 27, 2014 – The House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to a funding bill on June 25 that would prevent the Postal Service from eliminating Saturday mail delivery. The amendment, introduced by Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) and Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA), received bipartisan support and easily passed a vote…
Carl in the Morning – Thursday June 26, 2014 Dave Peiser was on Carl Wolfson’s current events radio show on XRAY.FM this morning, and talked about Darrell Issa’s war on the US Postal Service, renewable energy, rising sea levels and Republican obstructionism. Dave’s portion of the show starts at about 31 minutes in (31:28 to…
(June 25, 2014) The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday added a rider to a government funding measure mandating that the U.S. Postal Service continue to provide Saturday delivery service. NAPS supports the preservation of Saturday mail delivery. The Serrano-Latham amendment added the six-day mail delivery mandate to the House version of the FY 2015 Financial…
$19 billion of those savings would result from moves to five-day delivery and cluster boxes, says the Congressional Budget Office. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a financial analysis of the House Postal Reform Act (H.R. 2748) that estimates that, if passed, it would return $23.6 billion in savings to the troubled U.S. Postal…
The House has taken a major step to allow the U.S. Postal Service to eliminate Saturday mail delivery. The Financial Services and General Government Appropriations subcommittee — headed by Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla. — did not include a rider in its version of the fiscal 2015 funding bill to require USPS to deliver mail six…
With only two months before a crucial fund for highway projects nationwide is tapped, House Republicans and the White House touted dueling plans Tuesday aimed at avoiding a late-July construction shutdown. Speaker John A. Boehner told Republicans in a private morning meeting that leadership’s plan to raise cash for a temporary $15 billion road fix…
The United States Postal Service is extremely important to our Country. Our founding fathers knew how important the Postal Service was and established it in our Constitution. Many people are unaware that the U.S. Postal Service is not funded by taxpayer dollars, it is self-funded, and it is also a major employer for our veterans….
