Senators introduce USPS funding bill
The United States Postal Service recently commended a bill introduced by a number of different senators to better get its budget under control.
In a statement, the USPS praised Senators Susan Collins, Thomas Carper and Joseph Lieberman for working in a bipartisan way to introduce a bill that creates $7 billion in funding, The Washington Post reports. The added money would help the agency pay off some of its debts and requires it to spend two years on researching how moving to a five-day-a-week schedule would affect the public.
In a statement, the USPS said that it was working diligently to rein in costs while continuing to provide the service, which can be leveraged with web-to-print technolgy.
"The Postal Service continues to take aggressive actions under our control to cut costs and increase revenue to return to profitability and urgently needs passage of comprehensive, long-term legislation to get us there," the USPS said in a release.
Others with knowledge of the agency have been making headlines by proposing other ways to reduce spending. In a column for the Patriot-News, former USPS worker Larry Kapenstein wrote that by getting rid of the $400 monthly allowance would save the agency a lot of money with minimal repercussions.