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For USPS, Time is Running Out

Yesterday, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the fiscal straits faced by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

April 18, 2013 — CAGW Staff 1366330440

Congress Ends the End of Saturday Delivery

A little-known but costly rider to the fiscal year 2013 continuing resolution has forced the U.S. Postal Service to withdraw its proposal to end Saturday delivery.

April 11, 2013 — Thomas Schatz 1365729317

Delivering a Turnaround to the Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is broken. It is fixable.

March 4, 2013 — CAGW Staff 1362442573

Dire Straits – USPS Floundering

Those were the exact words of the United States Post Office’s (USPS) Postmaster General (PMG) Patrick Donahoe earlier this week during a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

February 15, 2013 — Leslie Paige 1360978475

Postal Reform is Coming…

On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, the United States Postal Service (USPS) announced its intention to terminate Saturday first-class mail delivery on August 1, 2013.  The announcement will certainly trigger a spirited public debate over the impact of such a dramatic change and could prompt resistance or outright obstructionism from lawmakers who don’t believe that the USPS is legally authorized to take such action without congressional approval.  But the pronouncement serves to limn, once again, the depth and breadth of the USPS’s financial and structural woes.  It also focuses attention on postal officials’ drive to reshape operations to adjust to significant and ongoing drops in first-class mail volume in the face of stultifying, costly labor work rules, excess infrastructure that straitjacket the agency.  The USPS announced on November 15, 2012 a record $15.9 billion loss in fiscal year 2102.

February 7, 2013 — Leslie Paige 1360253266

No Last-Minute Delivery on Postal Reform

The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced on November 15, 2012 that in fiscal year (FY) 2012, which ended on September 30, the agency lost a record $15.9 billion.  In June, 2012 at a PostalVision 2020 conference in Washington, Postmaster General (PMG) Patrick Donahoe flatly stated that if the USPS management team was not soon allowed to address its multiple structural deficiencies, its long-term fiscal outlook would most resemble the strife-ridden country of Greece.  “We need less expensive work hours, and we need more flexibility on who can do what jobs…Nobody can operate with 1940 work rules in a 2020 environment,” stated Donahoe. 

December 14, 2012 — Leslie Paige 1355461200

Unsolicited Mail Should Not be Funded by Taxpayers

There’s a lot that $63,000 can buy: a year’s worth of tuition, fees, and related expenses at Harvard; three years of healthcare costs for an average family of four; a brand new 2012 BMW Z4 Roadster with an automatic transmission and a turbocharged inline-six; or, if you’re a member of the House of Representatives, nine month’s worth of unsolicited mail.

August 24, 2012 — CAGW Staff 1345857514

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