The U.S. House has approved a bill lifting budget requirements that have helped push the Postal Service into debt and requiring USPS to keep delivering mail six days a week:
The election-year bill, coming at a time of widespread complaints about slower mail service, would also require the Postal Service to display online how efficiently it delivers mail to communities. The Senate is working on similar legislation.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, said the Postal Service “provides service to every American, no matter where they live, binding us together in a way no other organization does.” 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 letters and packages to be delivered.
One of the bill’s few critics was Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who said its changes didn’t go far enough. He said the measure erases debt that would ultimately be shifted to taxpayers. Instead of those obligations, the Postal Service would pay current retirees’ actual health care costs that are not covered by Medicare, the federal health insurance program for older people.
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