Financial transparency. Requiring greater transparency and better cost attribution will allow postal management to increase efficiency, and observers to monitor their progress. Adequate transparency would also help prevent abuse of the Postal Service's monopoly power. Price stability, not flexibility. The Postal...
Arlington, VA -- In a letter to U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors Chairman James C. Miller, thirteen prominent policy leaders today endorsed six essential elements of effective postal reform. "Above all, effective reform must benefit the American people, not just extend the...
The year 2004 ended disappointingly for postal reform in the United States. Despite an enormous effort by Congress, the White House, and many interested parties, House and Senate bills designed to overhaul the USPS never passed. Elsewhere the outlook is decidedly brighter for...
The explosion in internet commerce of the past few years has given American households and businesses unprecedented opportunities to benefit from the international marketplace. But the cost of the tilted playing field in international mail provision severely compromises those opportunities, largely at...
Sub-standard coverage and unconscionably low payout rates currently characterize the U.S. Postal Service's postal insurance business, according to a new report by the Postal Rate Commission's Consumer Advocate. The report was released at a policy lunch hosted last month by the Consumer...