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…
from Kori Blalock Keller, NALC Director of Legislative & Political Affairs Once again, Congress is dropping the ball on postal reform. Rather than working on legislation that fixes the crisis it created with the 2006 mandate to pre-fund future retiree health benefits, and rather than formulating smart reforms that will allow the Postal Service to…
Emerson Kretzer delivers mail on most days, south and west of St. Joseph. Last week, he delivered a message in Washington. The message, voiced firsthand to members of the Missouri congressional delegation, had to do with the future of the U.S. Postal Service. “We’re trying to preserve six-day delivery and do something about the pre-funding…
