Postal Reform HR 22 and SB 662
Congress has passed the Postal Reform Bills in the House and Senate.
Here is where you can debate the issues relating to the use of surplus postal revenues.
Issues:
Could those funds have been used to:
1. Fund wars
2. Bail out the Gulf States
3. Fund black projects
4. Fund Tax Cuts
5. Shift funding of Military Pensions and Healthcare
6. etc. etc. etc.
Postal Reform Side by Side House and Senate Versions
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on February 13th, 2006 at 9:39 am
Has anyone ever heard of a union negotiating for a better raise when there are surplus monies?
on February 16th, 2006 at 7:26 am
I think instead of negotiating for a better paying contract, that we get rid of the things that can give management such latitude in awarding values to our counts. Management has ways of reducing or increasing our evluations based on what they want to give out. We know the plants withhold mail during the counts and now we have February counts. Then you have to have precount negotiations that are subject to the hims and haws of management and then district will red-line anything it doesn’t like that management allowed. Folks we need standards carved in stone, then we need a management/craft team from out of the area to perform the counts, instead of the current system. 30 Seconds to order, and deliver a parcel to the customers door is ludicrous. If we are going to use the speed of the carrier against him/her because they are faster or slower, this is questionable too. We also need to get credit for unloading our vehicles, and returning our hampers to their designated areas at the end of the day.
on February 18th, 2006 at 6:48 am
It seems to me Congress is just using this to look busy. There seems to be a lot of wasted rhetoric and limitations more than anything on what the USPS can do.
We are spending our tax dollars on these congressional paper chasers who like to generate paper. Is this all necessary? You want the postal service to act like a private business, but you ham-string it’s operations to the point choking it to death with all the regulatory language and most of all don’t tread on it’s competitors… how laughable…