Politics And Five-Day Mail Delivery
In May, U.S. Postmaster General John E. Potter told attendees at the second annual National Catalog Advocacy & Strategy Forum that he is convinced his proposal for five-day mail delivery will become a reality.
But that prognostication has hit a huge stumbling block called C-O-N-G-R-E-S-S.
The financial woes of the U.S. Postal Service have been well documented: The federal agency has not received an operational subsidy from Congress since 1982, and current estimates forecast the federal agency will lose a record $6.4 billion in fiscal 2009. That would be on top of losses of $2.8 billion in fiscal 2008 and $5.1 billion in fiscal 2007. The USPS last turned a profit of $900 million in fiscal 2006.
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