HR2309 and S1789 attack Postal Employees and the Public.

Just because Issa made millions with a car alarm business and land deals doesn’t qualify him as an expert on how the Post Office should be run. He states that the Post Office should be run like a business when the law clearly states that the Post Office is a service,not a business and the Post Office's income should equal expenses,not that the income should exceed expenses to satisfy CEO and stockholders pockets. Issa insists that his solutions must be implemented quickly to save the Post Office although this bill (HR2309) has been in the works awhile it would cause problems that would lead to the end of the Post Office providing "living wage jobs" for their workers while services to the public will be decreased.

If Issa wants to save the USPS he should look at what expenses can be deleted without disrupting the service.

#1. The Postal Accountable and Enhancement Act needs to be rescinded. In 2006 the PAEA, signed by Bush, mandated that the USPS fund 75 years of retiree health benefits in 10. As the USPS was solvent before the PAEA (HR6407) was passed it stands to reason that the USPS would once again become solvent if this law was rescinded.

#2. Overpayments the USPS has made to the Civil Service Retirement Service should be returned.

#3. Overpayments the USPS made to FERS need to be retrieved.

#4. Charge more for delivering UPS parcels that UPS has the Post Office deliver to places they don’t.

#5. Adjust the ratio of managers to workers .

But Issa, in HR2309 has turned his back on the real solutions to end the financial problems of the Post Office that were created by Congress

Issa’s solution is to cut the workforce by at least 100,000, to weaken the unions, to make Postal Workers’ wages and benefits depend on a separate board when a contract wasn’t agreed upon by the USPS and a union.

This is a case where Issa’s cure would cause the death of the USPS as a public service and have it revived as a business with lower paid workers, higher rates and less service.



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S1789, sponsored by Lieberman, would cut 100,000 jobs with the USPS when we don't need to have more unemployed workers. S1789 would decrease compensation for injured workers and end it for those over 65, when we don't need to take away compensation or lower compensation for injured workers. It would weaken the unions which promote a "living wage" at a time when we don't need to add more people to the "working poor", S1789 would close smaller post offices (some have already closed), and slow mail delivery by closing 200+ distribution centers.

In 2006 Congress voted to have the USPS fund 75 years of retiree health benefits in 10 amounting to 5.5 Billion a year.

Saddled with funding 5.5 Billion a year that had nothing to do with mail delivery, the USPS could no longer have it's revenue=costs as it had done until 2005.

If this bill is passed or HR2309 the USPS will end up virtually privatized with lower wages and benefits for its’ workers, a scaled down and overworked workforce, more mail services contracted out, less services for the public including curbside service in place of home delivery.