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Gary Peters: “We saddle USPS with the regulations that you would expect from an electric utility.”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2016
We saddle USPS with the regulations that you would expect from an electric utility.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Peters critiques the regulatory burden placed on the Postal Service compared to utilities.

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