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On the recordJuly 11, 2012
I have encouraged friends at the National Association of Letter Carriers and the current leadership and the previous leadership to do what I think they tried to do a number of years ago, and that is to negotiate with management to see if there is some way to continue to sustain Saturday delivery, but maybe to do it in a different compensation structure than may occur on the other 5 days.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper advocates for negotiations to sustain Saturday mail delivery with a new compensation structure.

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