the business model which worked for a long, long time for the Postal Service is now broken, and we have to help the Postal Service fix it.
The major solution to the financial crisis should be found in tackling more significant expenses that do not drive customers away.
But stopping with these reforms and avoiding further, potentially more difficult changes will simply not be enough.
It is our job to do what needs to be done to save this industry, even if doing so involves making decisions that might be difficult politica...
My bill aims to address these problems and to take Congress out of the day-to-day management of the Postal Service.
We have a lot of hard work to do together because the status quo is not going to work.
I share your view that though the situation is dire, it is not hopeless. It is actually full of hope, and it is full of necessity.
I have spoken to Senator Collins today in a sidebar conversation just before she left.
The situation is dire. But I would just add it is not hopeless.
Like it or not--and in a number of ways I do not like it very much myself--the Postal Service needs to re-size to reflect the decreasing dem...
I think maybe the same thing could happen here if we would give it a shot.
I think the Postal Regulatory Commission said, no, it is more like $2 billion a year.
The fact is that maintaining all of our Nation's rural post offices costs the Postal Service less than 1 percent of its total budget.
I support that and I will support legislation to do that.
I agree with you. This fall we should get together on legislation, pass it, and give you the tools in plenty of time.
The Postal Service is a great national asset. It has an irreplaceable national network.
There is a way to do this that makes sense, and we can learn lessons from that industry.
I hope we go well before that.
