Tom Carper: “What we really have been doing with the Postal Service is requiring them to maintain this universal network.”

For too long, the seats have not been filled, and not been filled properly.

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

We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.

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.