On the recordApril 18, 2012
if I may just briefly, thanks to Senator Mikulski for her kind words but also for her directness about her concern about the processing facility she talked about and overall and to thank her for her willingness to work with us to see if we can work out something acceptable. As Senator Collins said, we have made some changes in this substitute that will still require overnight delivery--less broadly than before because we are trying to deal with how to responsibly react to the precipitous drop in mail volume because of the Internet, yet not reduce the quality of service so much that people leave the mail system even more. I used an analogy yesterday which is probably not exact, but way back when I was in the State senate in Connecticut, we had a crisis in the financing of our public bus system. One of the things that was done that seemed quite logical at the time was to raise the price of the bus fare. What does the Senator think happened in response to that?
