All Rural Post Office Saved, but Hours of Operation Cut WASHINGTON, May 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s decision to abandon plans to close 3,600 rural post offices, including 15 in Vermont, but voiced reservations about a new plan to cut hours of operation. Sanders called on the House […]
Senate Takes Up Postal Service Reforms: Sanders’ Provisions to be Added to Bill WASHINGTON, April 17 – The Senate today voted 74-22 to take up legislation to modernize the U.S. Postal Service. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led a group of more than two dozen senators who pressed to make the bill stronger. “Today’s vote clears […]
The U.S. Postal Service on Thursday informed tens of thousands of employees that it plans to close mail processing facilities. The decisions are not final. No closings will occur before May 15. Postmaster General Patrick Donahue agreed to that timetable under moratorium proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders to give Congress time to act. “The plan […]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 – A group of 27 senators called today for “significant improvements” in a bill to modernize the U.S. Postal Service. In a to a Senate panel that oversees the Postal Service, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and 26 other senators suggested specific measures to preserve first-class and Saturday mail delivery, stop wholesale closings […]
Washington, DC (Feb. 13, 2012)—In light of first quarter financial reports that the U.S. Postal Service would have generated $200 million in profits had it not been required to pre-fund its future retiree health benefits, Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called […]
The Ed Show: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz discusses the Republicans War On Workers and the Postal Service with Senator Bernie Sanders
Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy At A News Conference On The Postal Service And Rural America Last month Senator Sanders and I attended a public meeting at White River Junction in Vermont, to discuss the pending closure of the postal distribution center there. Five-hundred people came to the meeting, in a town that registered 2,200 […]
February 6, 2012 A Rationale for Postal Cuts in Doubt At a time when the U.S. Postal Service is considering deep cuts in services and jobs, an internal watchdog told Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday that a big funding cushion already has been built into the mail service’s retirement and health benefit funds. Billions of […]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 – At a time when the U.S. Postal Service is considering deep cuts in services and jobs, an internal watchdog today told Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that a big funding cushion already has been built into the mail service’s retirement and health benefit funds. Billions of dollars owed to the funds have […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday urged Congress to modernize the U.S. Postal Service to avert the closings of post offices and processing centers and the elimination of more than 100,000 jobs.