Post Office urges legislative reforms to reverse massive losses
Brennan added that the postal service has defaulted on $33.9 billion in mandated retiree payments since 2012. The bill is bipartisan and has support from the postal service and its unions. Not everyone, however, is happy with it. R Street Institute senior fellow Kevin Kosar argues the legislation merely keeps the postal service afloat instead of innovating to be better.
“It doesn’t show imagination for the future,” Kosar told InsideSources. “Digital communications is the norm but the bill doesn’t seem to be predicated on that changing fact of life. So there’s no real effort in the legislation to imagine what a postal service of the 21st century should do. Instead what we get is some spackle and some patches and some tape in order to keep the current organization moving forward.”
Kosar adds the legislation is pretty much a duplicate of reforms passed in the last Congress. He also has concerns with how the bill will allow the postal service to increase the price of first-class mail instead of finding more innovative solutions to budget issues. The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) argues the bill fails to address issues with management.
