Federal News Radio has noted that "The Postal Service's employee unions are speaking out against a USPS proposal to cut Saturday service. They are asking to instead focus on the Postal Service's mandatory retiree health benefit prepayments, which cost USPS as much as $5.8 billion a year, as an area to save money for the troubled agency. Congress passed and President Bush signed into law the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 that included this provision. USPS currently is the only agency with this prepayment mandate. Frederic Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, says this burden is the "primary cause of the postal crisis." Read more here.
From postcom.org
From postcom.org
