Tom Carper |
Saturday mail may soon be a thing of the past. The long-awaited, bipartisan Postal Service reform bill announced Friday by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) "would permit five or fewer delivery days per week after a year," Nicole Guadiano reports for the Wilmington News-Journal. "The intention is to allow for the elimination of Saturday mail and give the postal service flexibility for extra days around long weekends and holiday." A similar bill is pending in the House.
"The bill also would require centralized or curbside delivery of mail for new addresses and existing addresses could lose door delivery. But it would ban for two years changes to delivery speed — such as overnight delivery of mail — and plant closings," Guadiano reports. "Other reforms proposed in the bill would allow the service to sell non-postal products and ship beer and wine and would give the service more authority to set prices on its own." (Read more)
Two key sections were cut from the earlier Senate bill, Save the Post Office reports. One "maintained overnight delivery standards for three years, which would have prevented the closure of many processing plants," and the other "established retail service standards to help guarantee access to a post office. One such standard, for example, would have put a limit on how far and how long you should need to travel to your post office." (Read more)
Bernie Sanders |
In the Daily Yonder, Donna Kallner writes about mail as "rural America's communications lifeline."
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