Postal Reform on the Horizon

The Senate’s Governmental Affairs Committee and the House of Representatives’ Committee on Government Reform hosted the final hearing on postal reform in late March. There, U.S. Postal Service officials had one last opportunity to present their proposals for reform of the USPS.

Postmaster General Jack Potter noted that six-day service and single-digit rate increases are at stake in the near future if Congress does not take steps to give the USPS more control over rate setting and labor costs, as well as relief from funding requirements to civil service and military retirement programs.