NAPS: Issa’s Postal Bill Would Worsen USPS Financial Condition

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“Mr. Issa’s legislation also falls short in failing to authorize new avenues of commerce for the Postal Service as part of a broader, realistic business model for the 21st century.”

Statement by National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS) President Louis Atkins on Postal Reform Legislation:

June 30, 2011

The sweeping legislation proposed by Congressman Darrell Issa (H.R. 2019) to overhaul the United States Postal Service is dangerously misguided. It is an attack upon the management authority of the Postal Service and its dedicated workforce. The legislation should be firmly rejected by the Congress.

The legislation is misguided because it fails to address the immediate cause of the Postal Service’s financial problems – far too aggressive retiree health prefunding payments and pension overpayments. Congress largely created these perverse problems; Congress should first fix them.

Mr. Issa’s legislation, by failing to deal constructively with the prefunding and pension overpayment issues, would only worsen the Postal Service’s deteriorating financial condition. The creation of new government entities under the bill, like the Commission for Postal Reorganization and the Postal Service Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, will result in more government and more costs, not less. Mr. Issa’s legislation also falls short in failing to authorize new avenues of commerce for the Postal Service as part of a broader, realistic business model for the 21st century.

We continue to support proposals that will authorize the Postal Service to use billions of dollars in pension overpayments – as conclusively determined by the Postal Regulatory Commission and the Inspector General of the Postal Service – to help prepay its retiree health care costs. We urge the Congress to adopt the common-sense measures proposed by Rep. Stephen Lynch and Senator Tom Carper and Senator Susan Collins that would address the overpayments issue and help restore the Postal Service’s financial health.

3 thoughts on “NAPS: Issa’s Postal Bill Would Worsen USPS Financial Condition”

  2. Repersentivie Issa is good man of fath. He is good pubic servint and work hard for Ameracin busyniss. I lik Jesus and will help Ameracin peeples.

  3. House “MEMBER” Darrell Issa will act to BLOCK ANY LEGISLATION THAT WILL SOLVE THE USPS FISCAL PROBLEM….this is the GAME PLAN of the REPUBLIBAGGERS….act to stall ANYTHING that will help our ECONOMY.
    They will DO NOTHING to encourage EMPLOYMENT EXPANSION and JOB CREATION all the while screaming about how the answer is CUTTING TAXES AND REGULATIONS….which THEY KNOW will do NOTHING to help America out of the predicament that THEY CREATED by CUTTING TAXES AND REGULATION OF THE MEGA FINANCE INDUSTRIES.
    The GOP have been playing the role of THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN for so long that they are starting to BELIEVE THEIR OWN LIES AND RADICAL ECONOMIC THEORIES.
    It HASN’T WORKED FOR TEN YEARS….yet they expect you to BELIEVE THE SAME OLD THING for one more ELECTION CYCLE.
    These bastards will do nothing about what ails the USPS….
    They will let it fall on it’s face….and then blame it on Obama and the Democrats.
    Issa and his FREAKY GOP FRIENDS CONTROL WHAT CONGRESS DOES….NO ONE ELSE….IF THEY REFUSE TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM, IT FALLS ON THEM AND NO ONE ELSE….

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