Senator Patrick Leahy

Feb 6th

Senator Leahy: Postal Service divorced from reality

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 […]

Feb 6th

3 Senators Want Blue Ribbon Commission To Help USPS Increase Revenue

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 […]