Lawmakers are set to tackle several big issues in the coming weeks before packing up and going home for reelection campaigns. The future of the Postal Service: Two things to watch — and neither involves ending Saturday mail delivery or closing post offices — two no-go options in an election year. Full Story: Washington Post – […]
USPS Office Of Inspector General Audit Report – Revenue for Official Mail from the House of Representatives Mailroom Title 39, U.S.C Chapter 32, establishes the franked mail privilege for the vice president and members of Congress. The Postal Service accepts, processes, and delivers franked mail sent under an authorized individual’s signature, or facsimile signature, without […]
Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) issued the following press release: Washington, DC—Today Congressman Chaffetz introduced HR 5919. This bill would grant USPS Postmaster General the authority to implement up to twelve “postal holidays” per year in order to reduce USPS operating costs. The Postmaster General would select days in which delivered mail volume is historically lower […]
Congressman Stephen Lynch introduced legislation yesterday to correct methodology which overcharges USPS for its CSRS retirement obligations. The legislation amends the provisions of title 5, United States Code, relating to the methodology for calculating the amount of any Postal surplus or supplemental liability under the Civil Service Retirement System. This is a bill in the […]
Excerpts from a report issued by INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON THE ECONOMICS OF TAXATION (IRET) Since 1983, Congress has annually included a rider in appropriations bills requiring the Postal Service to deliver mail six days a week. This paper examines the main developments since early 2009, when the Postal Service requested authority to eliminate the […]
Documents submitted by PostalReporter reader shows the Postal Service’s History of requesting 5-day delivery to relieve its financial woes. The 94th and 95th Congresses Representative Tom Corcoran stated at a congressional hearing that the Postal Service took its first formal step toward eliminating one delivery day per week in 1976 when it conducted a study […]
Changes to law restrict mailing of tobacco products WASHINGTON — To comply with legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by the President, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products will be subject to new mailing regulations effective June 29, 2010. The law, Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act, Public Law No. 111-154, was signed into law […]
Senators, Congressman target failure of report to include impact on mail delivery service or to consult Eastern Shore residents, workers U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Benjamin L. Cardin and Congressman Frank M. Kratovil (all D-Md.) today again expressed their concerns about the potential closure of the Easton Mail Processing and Distribution Facility in a […]
Washington, D.C. – Today, Paul Hodes and Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter are demanding an investigation into a new round of allegations that letter carriers at even more post offices have been shortchanged on their paychecks. In documents obtained by Hodes, post offices in Dover and Salem, New Hampshire are shown to have manipulated letter carriers’ time […]
The following is a press release from the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton: April 28, 2010 WASHINGTON, DC- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a resolution, along with Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-MD-04) as an original co-sponsor, to honor the lives of Joseph Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr. with a commemorative stamp issued […]