To the new communications and transportation capabilities that weve developed. Given the shifting culture and those expectations for speed and ontime delivery, im reluctant. You have to look at the economics of all of this and the trade offs and costs, but i hate to see the Postal Service give up one, two, three. Thank you. Mr. Miller. Mr. Chairman two things. One, as i recollect, the rational for this change in Service Standards was developed after i left. I dont know the details of it. I hesitate to answer because without having time to analyze the data. Second, there is a trade off obviously. You cant do all things for all people. You have to make some choices here. Service standards should be an input into the question of plant and logistical rationalization it seems to me. I just dont have i dont have my hands on the information necessary i understand. Everything else equal. I think theres something nice about having as you characterize, a one, two, three kind of standard. You wou
The centers changed the standard of delivery and gone from one, two, three, days to modified one so au so if youre in the same met oe metropolitan area. Thats modified one. If were outside the area, you might get it. You may not. Modified one, two, three. I think the Postal Service would like to go to two, three. Two day even in the same metropolitan area. It would be one but two would be the expectation and three. In terms of whats appropriate for us, im not comfortable with the Postal Service saying this is how many Mail Processing centers we should have. Some people say the more appropriate thing for us to do maybe with the involvement of the Regulatory Commission is to consider whether or not modified one, two, three days of service is appropriate. One, two, three is better or two, three is just fine. I would welcome any comments that you all have in it regard. Ms. Kennedy. I picked on mr. Miller all afternoon. Maybe i should come to you. My first thought is if we have declining fi
He did that for a number of years and then he said, i think id like to become a congressman. He became a congressman for oklahoma and did that for a while. Then he said, maybe id like to be a senator. He did that for ten years and hes going to step down about two years early before the end of his term this year. God knows what hell do next. Maybe hes going to land a plane. Well find out before he gets here, but he should be here before too much longer. Ms. Kennedy, same line of thought we have. One of the things dr. Coburn really insisted on, pushed for when we introduced our initial bill a year ago last august, this past august, and he basically said, the Postal Service is not foolish, theyre not stupid, theyre not deaf to the marketplace. Lets give them the flexibility of set rates. If they charge too much, customers will stop using them. If they theyll eventually find a sweet spot. In the end we did not do that. There was a large criticism from the public and so forth. We thought we
Getting Senior Leadership bonuses and the same interest we put in attaching ourselves to highprofile projects is what the same amount of attention that needs to go to veterans. So i encourage you guys if nothing else, please make sure that we move to a system that has more data integrity. Require the people who come here and sit on these panels to sign off on the information they turn into congress. This way when they come back, they cant say that report was done by somebody else. Thats the only way. Hold them accountable and do it in public and while the cameras are on. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Committee come to order. And that includes the former senator from connecticut, who is sitting in the audience behind senator markey. Chris, nice to see you. I think all of us were forward thinking until you and eddie showed up. It will be a close call now. See if we cant get it through. Try to get it done. Senator markey, i dont know what kind of time frame youre on. If you can give
Did you say fax someone a pair of shoes . Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. The technology exists. Its there. I let me just say before you speak, vicky. I dont know if they have like the boy has a committee or subcommittee on innovation, but if you get confirmed, mr. Bennett, i sure hope they put you on that committee. That would be good. Thanks. Miss kennedy. I understand there are Athletic Shoe manufacturers that are going to be taking orders for Athletic Shoes with your specifications and doing 3d printing of your shoes in your exact size and with your specs and theyre going to want to distribute them. The Distribution Network that exists right now for the United States Postal Service is an incredible asset. Thats something that i believe we have to maintain to be able to take advantage of that kind of innovation, to be able to reach people. When you talk about doing what we do, thats what the Postal Service does. It knows how to deliver. It has an infrastructure and thats why one of th