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.
I am not sure if there is a way to structure through negotiations, not mandated by the Congress but through negotiations between the Postal ...
The Postal Service tells us they need to go from 6-day to 5-day delivery in order to save what they think is about $3 billion a year.
I can see opposition, some in the Senate and certainly a significant amount in the House, on the theory that somehow that is a bailout.
By next summer, if nothing else is done to help the Postal Service, you effectively have to stop delivering the mail.
There is a clock ticking. You are going to default on $5.5 billion the Postal Service owes to the retiree health benefit fund.
We should be writing more passionate letters to those we love.
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.
But stopping with these reforms and avoiding further, potentially more difficult changes will simply not be enough.