Doing away with Saturday delivery would save little money while risking the loss of much more revenue over time.

Good. Again, thanks for working with us and for all the good that you do.

We want to particularly thank this Subcommittee for all it has done on behalf of the Postal Service.

I would like to thank Senator Carper and Senator Collins for your years of diligent work on postal issues.

One of the things we are trying to endeavor to do in the Federal Government is to collect several hundreds of billions of dollars of taxes that are owed but are not being collected.

as we say in Delaware, carpe diem. Seize the day.

I am pleased to call our hearing to order and to be here with Senator Collins and, I suspect, a couple of our other colleagues as the morning goes on.

I think a good idea is to partner with all of these agencies.

Congress has an important role to play and needs to play that role. So I would encourage you to have as much oversight on these issues as possible.

I think that more now than ever we need to have more reliable data to manage the cost of the government and to be able to assess programs and policies.

I think partnerships would be good to be able to address those problems.