Senators Propose Changes to Help Rescue the USPS (Senators say it's not a bailout)

ABC News ^ | November 2, 2011 | Sunlen Miller

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Stressing that the United States Postal Service will run out of money to deliver mail by next summer, a bipartisan group of senators unveiled a proposal to help rescue the postal service.

“We are not crying wolf here,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said today. “The postal service literally will not survive unless comprehensive, legislative and administrative reforms are undertaken.”

Along with Collins, Sens. Tom Carper, D-Del., Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., revealed their plan, actually a melding of two plans, today at a news conference. It calls for a fundamental restructuring of the postal service, including cost-saving changes that will affect individual and business mailers and USPS employees.

“Too many people rely on the federal postal service for us to sit back and allow it to collapse,” Lieberman said.

[org.whodat]

A personal letter, what in the world is that, I have not seen one since, 1971. Sort of like a buggy whip.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Not really cost effective for something like a personal letter or small package.

Or zillions of tons of worthless junk mail.