We need to stay in the loop. If you need more people, this is an important part of this.

If that is the future here, if that is the future next year, do you think you deserve a bonus for that performance?

Are you going to offer any type of incentive to any of these employees?

I am inclined to be receptive of that.

I think there is a certain loss of market share when you become a 5-day delivery post office instead of a 7-day delivery post office.

There is unequivocally no doubt in my mind that some serious reevaluation of our Postal Service must take place.

the Postal Service is one of the most respected Government institutions in this country

I compared the practice of giving bonuses in the financial services industry to people who were losing money to the practice of giving bonuses to executives at the Post Office at a time when they are losing money.

I hope that this hearing will give us an opportunity to thoroughly explore the problems and difficulties being faced by what I considered to be one of our great national treasures, that is the Postal Service.

Will there be any attempt to offer any incentive to get people out the door?

The U.S. Postal Service is currently the most dependable, expansive mail delivery system in the world.

If you are going to ask the American people to absorb pain and closings and increased debt, there needs to be some type of reflection in the management team that acknowledges we are in some tough times.