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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Sen. Bernie Sanders...will oppose a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday mail delivery." [View all]
Sanders to Fight for Real Postal Reform
Sen. Bernie Sanders said today he will oppose a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday mail delivery.
The postmaster general cannot save the Postal Service by ending one of its major competitive advantages. Cutting six-day delivery is not a viable plan for the future. It will lead to a death spiral that will harm rural America while doing very little to improve the financial condition of the Postal Service, Sanders said. Providing fewer services and less quality will cause more customers to seek other options. Rural Americans, businesses, senior citizens and veterans will be hurt by ending Saturday mail, Sanders added.
The House last year refused to consider a Senate-passed postal reform bill that Sanders helped draft.
The Senate measure to modernize the Postal Service would have changed a 2006 congressional requirement that the mail service pre-fund 75 years worth of future retiree health benefits over a 10-year period. That pre-funding requirement is responsible for about 80 percent of the Postal Services financial losses since 2007. No other government agency, no other corporation in America is burdened with this mandate. This mandate must be lifted, Sanders said.
Current federal law makes it illegal to end Saturday mail delivery. The Senate-passed bill would have reinforced the ban for two more years.
It is time for Republican leadership in the House to work with the Senate to reform the Postal Service in a way that will not harm rural America and allows the Postal Service to adjust to the digital age without ending Saturday mail delivery, Sanders said.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=a868cce9-3b42-40c4-a7ef-519507db955f
Sen. Bernie Sanders said today he will oppose a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday mail delivery.
The postmaster general cannot save the Postal Service by ending one of its major competitive advantages. Cutting six-day delivery is not a viable plan for the future. It will lead to a death spiral that will harm rural America while doing very little to improve the financial condition of the Postal Service, Sanders said. Providing fewer services and less quality will cause more customers to seek other options. Rural Americans, businesses, senior citizens and veterans will be hurt by ending Saturday mail, Sanders added.
The House last year refused to consider a Senate-passed postal reform bill that Sanders helped draft.
The Senate measure to modernize the Postal Service would have changed a 2006 congressional requirement that the mail service pre-fund 75 years worth of future retiree health benefits over a 10-year period. That pre-funding requirement is responsible for about 80 percent of the Postal Services financial losses since 2007. No other government agency, no other corporation in America is burdened with this mandate. This mandate must be lifted, Sanders said.
Current federal law makes it illegal to end Saturday mail delivery. The Senate-passed bill would have reinforced the ban for two more years.
It is time for Republican leadership in the House to work with the Senate to reform the Postal Service in a way that will not harm rural America and allows the Postal Service to adjust to the digital age without ending Saturday mail delivery, Sanders said.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=a868cce9-3b42-40c4-a7ef-519507db955f
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"Sen. Bernie Sanders...will oppose a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday mail delivery." [View all]
ProSense
Feb 2013
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Sanders should explain why he voted to require the pre-funding of pensions in the first place
Freddie Stubbs
Feb 2013
#2
"Millions of people work on Sundays, too. So why not force mail carriers to work on Sundays?"
ProSense
Feb 2013
#10
OK. I understand that you have no interest in allowing my mail carrier to spend the whole weekend
Nye Bevan
Feb 2013
#11
Hmmm. I hardly think, sir, that eliminating Saturday mail delivery equates to
Nye Bevan
Feb 2013
#14
Republicans screwed this up like they do everything else they touch..stupid bullshit
Jefferson23
Feb 2013
#18