'It is my intention for the Senate to quickly take up and pass this bipartisan, bicameral postal reform bill,' Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.
— Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to move quickly to pass a sprawling bill to reform the struggling U.S. Postal Service, after the legislation won approval by a wide bipartisan margin in the House on Tuesday.
The Postal Service is supposed to sustain itself with postage sales and other services, but has suffered 14 straight years of losses. The reasons include growing workers' compensation and benefit costs plus steady declines in mail volume, even as it delivers to 1 million additional locations every year.
Representative James Comer of Kentucky, that committee's top Republican, said"the days of letters alone driving Postal Service revenue are not coming back." The bill, he said, will"help it succeed into the 21st century." The bill would also require the Postal Service to set up an online"dashboard" that would be searchable by zip code to show how long it takes to deliver letters and packages.
"It has failed to make a profit, it has failed the American people, and everyone who has a mailbox knows it," he said.
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