I think it is incumbent to lay it out in a strategy that would talk about not only 6-day-a-week delivery but what other options are being considered.
Thomas Carper
The Public Record
Didn't you do this in the earlier part of this decade as we were coming out of a recession, 6, 7, or 8 years ago?
The area that we identified in the statement is looking at the employer share of the employee--what the employer pays, the Postal Service, on behalf of its employees for their health care premiums, for current employees.
I will be anxious to see their new price filings when they come forward with the rate adjustments for May.
I just want to say if you look in the auto industry, domestic auto industry, I think they actually have now more retirees than active employees.
The 400 processing facilities we have, I understand that the nature of the work that goes on in those facilities has changed a good deal.
It is interesting. You closed 58 out of 59 air mail facilities and one out of, what, 400 processing facilities?
I have heard from the car companies who have said we have the technology literally to put vehicles that use hydrogen out on the road--cars, trucks, vans--but we do not have the infrastructure in order to make it successful.





