On Friday, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) announced that a majority of the House of Representatives signed on as sponsors of House Resolution 137 (H.R. 137) which expresses the House’s support for 6-day delivery. The resolution states that the
sense of the House of Representatives is that the United States Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of its 6-day mail delivery service.
As such, the resolution only expresses the sense of the House. It does not have the power of law to prevent the Postal Service from implementing 5-day delivery. Ensuring 6-day delivery will require that the House of Representatives approve an amendment to H.R. 2309 that remove provisions that allow the Postal Service to cut service to 5 days a week.
For this to happen, all 219 supporters ( i.e the prime sponsor, Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) and 218 co-sponsors) must remain steadfast in their support of 6-day delivery. All Chairman Darrell Issa has to do is convince 18 of the 42 Republicans that are currently supporting the resolution to support the compromise on 5-day delivery worked out in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee markup.
The compromise allowed the Postal Service to cut service to 5 days a week for 10 weeks a year and a cut-back in 6-day delivery will likely be included in the postal reform bill that will pass the House of Representatives. If made into law, the compromise would reduce delivery to 5-days a week for 20 weeks a year, during the 10 weeks with statutory holidays and the 10 weeks designated by the Postal Service.
As most of the Republicans who co-sponsored H.R. 137 signed on well before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee marked-up H.R. 2309 and included a compromise on 6-day delivery, their continuing support for 6-day delivery, 52 weeks a year is uncertain. Some may be willing to support the compromise that was written after they signed onto H.R. 137. Others may be satisfied with just including a sense of the House resolution as an attachment to the bill which would have no legally binding restrictions on the Postal Service. Therefore, the NALC and other supporters of 6-day delivery have their work cut out for them if they want to ensure that the postal reform bill that passes the House ensures the continuation of 6-day delivery.
Im against 5 day delivery because im an rca and thats the only days that im guaranteed to work and if they done away with saturday delivery then i would not get any work,and the mail volume on mondays would be terrible because mondays are already heavy days so im for the 6 day delivery thank you mrs.brewster.
I think that five day may not be as bad as we fear. They would have the same volume of mail in less days. We, as RCA’s, may get a route, they would HAVE to split some of the K routes into either another route or smaller in order to get all the mail out in five days. Those of us that work in H offices may get 40 hours pay instead of working six days for 40 hours and save US some gas on the way to work! Along with seeing our families TWO days each week…
That compromise is insane. It will create massive inefficiencies and cost more than six day delivery. A much better compromise would be we will go with 5 day delivery but won’t drop to 4 days except on Major holidays.
Politicans at work with no concern to take action to prevent massive increasing debt with a decline in revenue as a result of declining first class mail volume.The need for the USPS to be the primary means of communication for businesses as decreased due to the advances in communication. The USPS had its time when it was necessary for people and businesses to purchase a postage stamp, deposit in the postal system, await a 2-3 delivery time to a physical address. This practice is history; there has been no need for 6 day mail delivery in the 21st century due to instant messaging, Business and individual communicate via the internet, facebook, smart phones, i pods, texting and new APPS becomming available constantly.6 day mail delivery had it need(day) in the 20th century. Electrical mail diversion has replaced written communication via written messaging with delivery by the USPS to a physical address. Sat. street delivery is a wasted cost that provides no benefit as the primary product is bulk business advertising junk mail. This is high distribution cost with low revenue. Express and priority
mail must be delivered for the price paid to expedite delivery. This is same business mode as Fed X and UPS; where extra money is paid to meet a dedicated delivery time.
Eliminating Sat. delivery 52 days a year would reduce fuel cost for 192,000++ vehicles and reduce massive labor workhour cost. Politicans must recognize that cost effective methods have to be introduced to maintain the USPS AS THE SUPPLY AND SERVICES OFFERED BY THE USPS is declining and the DEMAND will continue to decline. USPS must adjust to demand for needs offered and adjust workforce to meet increasing cost.
Need to drop 6 day delivery, save money your just adding more debt by pauing employees 6 days those whoonly work on weekends can take over and work 1day a week to even out. people have lives other than work. postal service is not organized at all, needs better management. everything is upside down END SATURDAY. Why wait till 2014 . what since does that make. if your going to drop it do it NOW.
No one in the post office just works weekends, dropping sats. would put 15 to 18% of the post office employees on unemployment. Mail would take longer to get to you and other people would be allowed to put ads in your mailbox on sat. who knows who would be coming to your home
Can this country stand anymore jobs lost?…..How about congress and house taking pay cuts being they dont work a full year?