Darrell Issa actually said...

"The work you do I won't say it is thankless, but it is pretty close."

"Isn't the future of the Post Office an efficient, effective delivery system that often carries, in greater amounts, all of the above, meaning that you are the last mile in many, many, many cases, and ..."

"it will be a cold day in hell before I would voluntarily write a check and put it in the envelope again."

"Do you find it odd that the vast majority of these newspapers do not want a rate increase, say they cannot tolerate a rate increase, but they want you to continue delivering on Saturday?"