Tom Carper: “We appreciate very much your appearance before our Subcommittee today.”

Public engagement can build trust, it can increase public buy-in, can help resolve issues, can help prevent litigation, and ultimately it can save time and money.

I think the greatest way that the Commission can have an impact on that is probably through our rate-making authority.

I am the last Vietnam Veteran serving in the U.S. Senate, and kind of relates to my great affection and interest in the postal issues.

We will do it again. Maybe the next time we will actually make it to Columbia.