Let me just say, we think around here about echo effect.

So as Congress would consider policy decisions such as a reduction in service from 6 to 5 days, you could go back to your constituents and explain to them how this is all going to work.

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.

It is interesting. You closed 58 out of 59 air mail facilities and one out of, what, 400 processing facilities?

If you go from 6 to 5 days, some of your customers, including your competitors, might be less inclined to use you as a partner for going that last mile.

I think there is some agreement, at least among Senator Collins, Senator Lieberman, and myself, that if we are not comfortable going with 8 years, we may be comfortable going with 2 years.

There are about half a million retirees right now?

But 2 years was more acceptable to GAO. Is that correct?

What I am asking for is that the Board be given the latitude to evaluate our mail volumes and to make decisions, in concert with our mailers, on when it would be prudent to roll back or eliminate six day delivery.

That was over, what, a couple of years?

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.

We should not be surprised that the Postal Service is struggling as well.