Senators reach bipartisan deal to reform USPS finances, tighten accountability requirements (AKA: removing alot of Bush-era shit that made it insolvent)

[SaysWho?]

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/senators-reach-bipartisan-deal-to-reform-usps-finances-tighten-accountability-requirements/

 

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The bill, identical to a version that has advanced in the House, would repeal $5 billion a year in mandatory retiree health-care expenses and require future postal retirees to enroll in Medicare. Advocates say the measures would save the agency $30 billion over the next decade.

 

The bill would also see the Postal Service develop a public online mail delivery performance dashboard where customers could view the agency’s on-time delivery metrics by Zip code each week.

 

Pushed by Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who lead the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee, the legislation has enough bipartisan co-sponsors to give it a pathway to passage in the bitterly divided chamber.

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Can we legally mail beer and wine yet? I believe there is a bill out there to do that. Would be a boon to small craft businesses! 

[mclumber1]

Can they do something about junk mail?  That shit is dumb and it fills up my mailbox. Informed Delivery is nice!  If you don't have that, get it. 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

25 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

Can they do something about junk mail?  That shit is dumb and it fills up my mailbox. Informed Delivery is nice!  If you don't have that, get it. 

Informed delivery is so nice. It's like getting mail twice a day!

[SaysWho?]

48 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Can we legally mail beer and wine yet? I believe there is a bill out there to do that. Would be a boon to small craft businesses! 

 

The House just unveiled it, so we probably need a bit more time on that one.

[Jason]

16 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Informed delivery is so nice. It's like getting mail twice a day!

 

Except when it shows you something's coming and then it doesn't appear until the next day. Which was happening pretty routinely for me even before last year's COVID+DeJoy mail meltdown.

[Chris-]

51 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

Can they do something about junk mail?  That shit is dumb and it fills up my mailbox. Informed Delivery is nice!  If you don't have that, get it. 

‘Junk mail’ is both an effective marketing strategy and a boon to USPS coffers, so you will *never* see it go away. 

[Remarkableriots]

House Oversight Committee requests investigation into Postal Service's covert internet surveillance program

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The House Oversight Committee is asking for an investigation into the Postal Service’s surveillance of Americans’ social media posts about protests, following a series of reports by Yahoo News about...