NALC: 6-day language makes it into House appropriations bill

June 25, 2014—Language mandating six-day mail delivery—intentionally left out of the draft version of the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government’s Fiscal Year 2015 spending bill—was successfully reinserted into the measure that was approved on Wednesday by a voice vote of the full House Appropriations committee. “This is a clear victory for letter…

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NALC urges committee to vote ‘no’ on phase-out of door delivery

May 20, 2014—Statement of Fredric V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee mark-up of the Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014: The 275,000 members of the National Association of Letter Carriers, who live and work in every congressional District in America, call on the…

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Why is the Postmaster General Understating Postal Revenue Gains?

By David Yao In a May 9, 2014 press release, the Postal Service issued another quarterly press release turning an operating profit (of $261 million) into a loss. The supposed loss, an accounting fiction, was caused entirely by the 2006 law which generates a long-term loan to the Federal treasury, under the guise of “pre-funding”…

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NAPUS: Possible Wednesday Committee Vote on New Issa Bill

It appears likely that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will conduct a vote on a new bill authored by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) on Wednesday afternoon, May 7. The most recent draft of the bill is very similar to the postal proposal included in President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget. The bill would…

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