WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Tom Reed is among the House of Representatives members reintroducing the USPS Fairness Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation to provid
99 years ago in 1922:
⢠Charges that the city health board had been guilty of gross neglect of its businesses were made by member John Schell when he cited the fact that the board had not met in regular session since June 20, 1921. The law had required monthly meetings, but none had been held for seven months.
Schell superheated the chilly atmosphere of the city council chamber with charges that the new law standardizing the sale of milk was not enforced upon all dealers in Warren and then revived the old garbage collection fight.
“Employees of the Board of Health aided and abetted the independent garbage collector, Bartlett, to defy the Board of Health in its garbage collection contract,” Mr. Schell said. “I never saw anything so rotten imposed on anyone,” he continued.“And we have proof that employees of the board collaborated with Bartlett against the board.”
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The Postal Service, seeing no sustainable path under its current business model, is offering Congress and the incoming Biden administration a shot at working together on a long-term strategy to reform the way it operates.
USPS ended fiscal 2020 with a $9.2 billion net loss, its 14th consecutive year in the red, despite a historic volume of election mail and mailed-in ballots.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy warned Friday that the losses will continue if Congress, the White House and its postal regulators do nothing.
USPS projects a $9.7 billion loss by the end of this fiscal year, and by that point has warned it won’t have enough cash to keep operating.