Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Congress drags its feet on halting Saturday mail delivery

NEARLY TWO months ago, Patrick R. Donahoe, the postmaster general and chief executive of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), announced that the postal service would stop Saturday mail delivery in August. At the time, we expressed the hope that Congress would treat Mr. Donahoe’s cost-cutting measure as a cue to address, at long last, the structural problems that necessitated it.
Alas, it appears that lawmakers are bound and determined to do the opposite. Instead of supporting Mr. Donahoe’s plan and providing USPS management with the tools to implement further savings, they are obstructing him.

Read more: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-19/opinions/37841974_1_patrick-r-donahoe-mail-delivery-postal-service

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