Postal Service pleads to Congress for help

Posted on November 16, 2014November 16, 2014 by 21cpw

Top U.S. Postal Service officials are increasing pressure on Congress to deliver legislation to overhaul the agency, saying that recent improvements in its bottom line will fade away over the coming year. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and other agency officials on Friday called the Postal Service’s last quarter its best in six years, and the…

Hopes dimming for postal service reform

Posted on September 27, 2014September 27, 2014 by 21cpw

(September 27, 2014) The U.S. Postal Service is besieged by financial losses, and the cavalry doesn’t appear to be coming. After years of debate, Congress remains stalled on legislation to prop up an agency weighed down by heavy employee costs and still struggling to remake itself in the Internet era. Two years ago, lawmakers worked…