On the recordApril 18, 2012
Fewer people were riding the buses and the fiscal problem got worse. There is a reality here. The mail volume has dropped so much that we have to close some of the mail processing facilities or--and Senator Collins and I feel very strongly about this--we have to thin out the number of personnel working at the facilities. We put this in as a condition which we thought originally was what the Postmaster was going to be interested in. Do not just precipitously close a lot of mail processing facilities. First--and we require this now--they have to consider a plan to reduce the capacity of a particular facility and presumably the number of people working there before they absolutely close it. Anyway, bottom line, thanks to Senator Mikulski. We look forward to working with her to reach a mutually agreeable result.
