Tom Carper actually said...

"Eighty percent of the costs of the Postal Service is people."

"three things that the Postal Service needs to be able to do in order to be a viable ongoing enterprise in the future: First, they just have more people than they need on active duty, if you will; seco..."

"I think we need to be humane."

"I do not hear any great appetite for laying folks off. I do not hear him say, 'We are asking for that as an authority.' I think that would be their last choice."