The seven-year-old battle for legislation to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service will shift to the U.S. Senate from the House of Representatives early next year, according to Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE).
Carper, speaking at the annual conference of the National Association of Letter Carriers in Philadelphia last week, said he plans to introduced postal reform legislation in the Senate early next year.
He says it will be the same bill that the House Government Reform Committee rejected 20-6 on June 20. That bill, HR-4970, was co-sponsored by Rep. John McHugh (R-NY), who has been leading the fight to overhaul the USPS since 1995, and committee chairman, Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN).
That bill would have repealed provisions of the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, which required the USPS to financially break even by having each class of mail pay for itself. It would have allowed the USPS to spin off its products and services that compete with private industry and make a profit in addition to revamping the postage rate-setting process while increasing the Postal Rate Commission
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