US Senators Tom Carper, Jerry Moran, Heidi Heitkamp and Claire McCaskill have introduced The Postal Service Reform Act of 2018: Improving Postal Operations, Service, and Transparency. In a statement sent to Post&Parcel yesterday (22 March), the Senators said that the bipartisan bill aims to “stabilize, preserve and improve the Postal Service”....
The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) may not be top of mind to most Americans, but the decisions they make affect each and every one of us. For more than a decade, the PRC has provided oversight of the United States Postal Service and its pricing. And now, the PRC wants...
Each year the Postal Service reports a loss of around $6 billion. Its balance sheet has an even bigger problem, though. A $73 billion and growing retirement plan deficit. The problem is, the Postal Service is limited by law where it can invest employees’ retirement funds. Paul Steidler, senior fellow at the...
We provide seven contentions for why the Postal Regulatory Commission should not allow the Postal Service to significant raise monopoly mail prices....
Every day postal trucks drop off about 4,000 packages at a US Postal Service station in central Tennessee, where they’re unloaded by a team of around six USPS employees. Each person grabs a box, rushes to the only scanning machine, runs the bar code, and then places it in the...