Last April, the Postal Service, and its commercial customers feared the decline in mail volume driven by pandemic-related business shutdowns would turn into a freefall. Early in that month, the agency shared initial volume and revenue projections with members of the House and Senate committees having postal oversight responsibilities.
Billions in losses
Note: This article was initially published with an error in attribution; this article was written by Leo Raymond, Managing Director of Mailers Hub.
In the midst of the Great Depression, newly re-elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937. The measure would increase the size of the Supreme Court to as many as fifteen justices by allowing the president to appoint up to six additional justices, one for every member of the court over the age of 70 years and 6 months. Roosevelt had chafed at the court’s rejection of several of his New Deal initiatives, so the plan would have let him add enough new members to the panel to ensure a majority would favor his proposals. Opponents, however, called the proposal “court-packing,” for obvious reasons.
The following is the second in a two-part commentary, excerpted from the Jan. 6 edition of Mailers Hub News, in response to the Fortune Magazine article on Dec. 27, USPS Could Privatize As Early As Next Year
Any decision to sell-off or otherwise privatize the USPS would not be something arising from the Postmaster General, so campaigning that he or she should protect the ramparts of L’Enfant Plaza against the huns of privatization is somewhat misguided.
The following is the second in a two-part commentary, excerpted from the Dec. 9 edition of Mailers Hub News
Changes step 3
There is still time to make the 2019 Mailers Conference.
A very brief and narrowly-focused bill filed April 29 by Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR 4th) would do one thing: eliminate the statutory provision (in the 2006 postal reform law) that requires the Postal Service to fully prefund future retiree health care costs.
As filed, the operative section of HR 2382, the USPS Fairness Act, states:
* High Costs and High Overtime: USPS Reports Challenge Insight – Commentary. Good luck making sense of the numbers.
* Advocacy Group Urges New PMG to Act on Old Challenges – Analysis. Plenty of advice without context.
* Mailer Groups Seek to Change PRC Ratesetting Proposal. More arguments against proposed changes in ratesetting.
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