I would like to thank the Members of this committee for the opportunity to testify today on the need to privatize the U.S. Postal Service. While fast, efficient ...
Privatize the USPS. ... One of them is the ongoing implosion of the U.S. Postal Service ... and the Netherlands, privatized postal firms do provide universal service.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is a major business enterprise operated by the federal government. Revenues from the sale of USPS products are supposed to cover the ...
The United States Postal
Service has lost over $20 billion since 2006 and is projected to lose
another $8 billion this year. Government Mail is about to max out its $
...
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
is losing billions of dollars a year. The government company that
delivers "snail mail" is losing out to email and other types of ...
Postal Service Privatization. By Chris Edwards. Share. Tweet; Like; Submit; Plus; ... The legal monopoly conferred on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is a relic.
Privatize the Post Office. By Tad ... The mammoth 685,000-person U.S. Postal Service is facing declining mail volume and rising costs. The way ahead is to privatize ...
Privatize the Post Office, Authors Urge ... to abolish the last monopoly and privatize the U.S. Postal Service ... the Postal Service be privatized?' Rather ...
A Cato Institute conference on June 14 examined the question, "Postal Service in the 21st Century: Time to Privatize?" Among the speakers were Postmaster General ...
Brookings scholar Elaine Kamarck has a new study favoring partial privatization of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Her study comes on the heels of a solid study by ...
If
my inbox is any indication, a lot of Americans apparently believe that
an amendment to the Constitution would be necessary to privatize the U.S. Postal Service.
After Germany, the Netherlands, and Great Britain, it is now Italy's turn to privatize its postal service. It seems that even "old Europe" welfare states are ...
Going Postal, Again. By Doug Bandow. ... Uncle Sam should get out of the postal business. Privatize the USPS and drop the federal first-class monopoly.
U.S. Postmaster General Marvin T. Runyon gave the keynote speech at Cato's June 14 conference, "Postal Service in the 21st Century: Time to Privatize?" Runyon ...
The United States Postal
Service lost $5.5 billion last year. That is the eighth annual loss in a
row and the third highest ever. The only good news is that it ...
The Slow Death of the U.S. Postal Service. ... (62) Various members of Association of Private Postal Systems, Inc., interviews with author, February 5-6, 1988.
A Holiday Gift: Post Office Going Private? ... Only if the U.S. Postal Service goes private will we receive efficient mail at the millennium. Tweet; Like;
The U.S. Postal
Service has come up with a new way to make sure that bags full of mail
are never delivered and that a billion dollars in new costs are ...
On March 25, 1999, neatly concealed in an obscure and seemingly minor "Procedure Revision," the U.S. Postal Service announced its intent to execute Postal ...
... it's already in the cards because this company is the U.S. Postal Service, ... Congress and President Obama should deregulate postal markets and privatize the USPS.
Privatize the USPS and open postal markets to competition. Privatize the USPS and open postal markets to competition. ... The Private Sector Will Deliver.
The U.S. Postal Service vs. Greece. By Tad DeHaven ... certain members of Congress of pushing for reforms that will ultimately lead to postal privatization.
Government Crowding Out, USPS Style. By Chris Edwards. Share. Tweet; Like; ... Postal privatization works. Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands have shown the way.
The Last Dinosaur: The U.S. Postal
Service. ... , the Tudor monarch outlawed private post in order to
hinder communication between potentially rebellious subjects.
On March 25, 1999, neatly concealed in an obscure and seemingly minor "Procedure Revision," the U.S. Postal Service announced its intent to execute Postal Bulletin ...
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
is a major business enterprise operated by the federal government. ...
Privatizing the Royal Mail. By Chris Edwards. Share. Tweet;
When the government decided to replace the Post Office Department with the U.S. Postal Service in ... end the monopoly and put the USPS on the path toward privatization.
The post office, the government ... In particular, it is past time for policymakers to consider privatizing the U.S. Postal Service and open mail delivery up to ...
A recent Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the U.S. Postal Service's dire financial prospects found little enthusiasm for the USPS's idea to eliminate ...
Postal Bankruptcy. By Doug Bandow ... the U.S. Postal Service also is effectively bankrupt. ... Even Greece plans partial privatization of the national post.
No, the U.S. Postal Service won't close on August 1 st because it can't afford to make a required $5.5 billion payment into a federal fund for postal retiree ...
The U.S. Postal
Service has been criticized for acting too slowly to protect its
workers and the public from anthrax-laden letters. Congress and news
media ...
Try to think of good reasons why the U.S. Postal Service should be a government-owned monopoly. In reality, there are none. The private sector has shown it's willing ...
The U.S. Postal
Service has released a new five-year plan for congressional
consideration that it says would get the beleaguered government mail
monopoly on sounder ...
The United States Postal
Service has run up $4 billion in losses so far this year, on top of
last year's $15.9 billion deficit. Washington should get out of the ...
Slower Is Better: The New Postal Service. ... U.S. Postal Service employees are paid far better than ... "Countries Take First Steps to Postal Privatization," Stamp ...
The phrase "You've Got Mail!" doesn't conjure up images of the U.S. Postal Service in the minds of most Americans. The communications revolution, which has ...
Postal Vision 2020 is a conference scheduled for June in Arlington, VA, that will discuss the U.S. Postal Service's long-term prospects in our increasingly ...
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
recently announced that it might cancel Saturday mail delivery in light
of a projected $2 billion to $3 billion deficit over ...
Privatizing the U.S. Postal
Service. Chris Edwards. More on Privatization. Commentary. Banks Will
Remain Political Fiefdoms till Privatized. By Swaminathan S ...
One possible solution offered up for the struggling U.S. Postal Service is to allow it to diversify into nonpostal commercial markets (e.g., insurance, logistics ...
The U.S. Postal
Service is structured to subsist on the revenues it generates from the
sale of its products and services. In recent years, however, USPS expenses have ...
Want Better Mail Service? Look ... General John Potter announced that the U.S. Postal Service is facing $238 ... " Privatization of the Postal Service has to ...
Europeans Leading on Postal Privatization. By Daniel J. Mitchell. Share. ... In the 10 members of the EU-15 that haven't completed or planned postal liberalization, ...
Latest Blog Post. Congress Fist Bumps ... Chris Edwards discusses privatizing the USPS on KPRL's Sound Off with Dan Del Campo. Share. Tweet; Like; Submit; Plus ...
... competing with the Postal ... I am sorry to report that in the recent past the U.S. Postal Service ... Canada Post was allowed to acquire a private express ...
The U.S. Postal
Service raises prices on its monopoly products, and uses those extra
revenues to artificially push down prices on its competitive products.
For USPS ...
The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee held a hearing this week on the U.S. Postal Service's dire financial situation. The USPS is facing a $ ...
About Those Postal Retiree ... the U.S. Postal Service had been promising generous ... the health benefit is something that a decreasing number of private sector ...
President Throws U.S. Postal Service Under the Bus. By Tad DeHaven . Share. Tweet; Like; Submit; Plus; ... with privatization of the USPS being the ultimate goal.
A new paper from postal expert Michael Schuyler compares the financial performance of the U.S. Postal Service to foreign postal service providers. Not surprisingly ...
The United States Postal
Service has run up $4 billion in losses so far this year, on top of
last year's $15.9 billion deficit. Congress is considering legislation
...
Postmaster General Stepping Down. By Tad DeHaven . Share. Tweet; ... I noted that his comments indicated the need to privatize the U.S. Postal Service. ...
The anthrax attacks place the security of postal services on the front line in the war against terrorism. The good news is that this threat is being dealt ...
The U.S. Postal Service announced today that it intends to end Saturday mail delivery beginning on August 1st. According to the USPS, the move would save the ...
The U.S. Postal service has announced a net loss of $8.5 billion for fiscal 2010. Since 2006, the USPS has lost $20 billion, and the organization is close to maxing ...
Featuring
Tad DeHaven ... To combat the 2007-09 recession, the Federal Reserve
implemented the Large Scale Asset Purchase program, more commonly known
as...
Today, the U.S. Postal
Service warned that it could lose $238 billion over the next ten years
if it doesn't receive greater managerial flexibility from Congress.
Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the problems of the U.S. Postal Service's new regulations on commercial mail-receiving agencies (CMRAs) that offer ...
According to the Hill, policymakers are "scrambling" to do something about the U.S. Postal Service in the current lame-duck session of Congress. The USPS's ...
The U.S. Postal Service is in a lurch after Congress wrapped up business until November without giving the USPS a break on a $5.5 billion retiree health benefits ...
Chris Edwards The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is a major business enterprise operated by the federal government. Revenues from the sale of USPS products are supposed ...
The mammoth 685,000-person U.S. Postal Service is facing declining mail volume and rising costs. The way ahead is to privatize the USPS and repeal the company's ...
That's the argument being made in Stamps v. Town of Framingham, ... Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service. Chris Edwards. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) ...
The Future of the U.S. Postal
Service. Share. Tweet; Like; Submit; Plus; Half-Day Conference .
October 2, 2003 . 8:45AM to 12:30PM. Auditorium/1st floor/Wintergarden .
Featuring
Tad DeHaven ... Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank) four and a half years ago
in response...