iPOST Cosponsors React to Annual Compliance Determination of U.S. Postal Service
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Susan Collins joined fellow cosponsors of the bipartisan Improving Postal Operations, Service, and Transparency Act of 2015 (iPOST) in responding to the Postal Regulatory Commission’s (PRC) Annual Compliance Determination of the U.S. Postal Service. The Annual Compliance Determination, which assesses U.S. Postal Service compliance with pricing and service performance, found that a majority of Postal Service products, including all First-Class Mail products, failed to meet service performance targets for FY 2016.
“Today’s Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) release of its Annual Compliance Determination for the Postal Service identified significant failures at the Postal Service, which only underscore the need to urgently pass the postal reform legislation we have introduced, the Improving Postal Operations, Service, and Transparency Act (iPOST). Specifically, the PRC found that the majority of products failed to meet service performance targets for FY 2015 and service performance results for all First-Class Mail products did not meet their targets. These failures are unacceptable. The American people deserve fast, affordable, and dependable service. A thriving Postal Service is essential to the economic structure of this country and it must be repaired. Our bill would begin to do that. This report further underscores the precarious financial state of the Postal Service, with rates set to decline on April 10th. The time to act and stabilize this lynchpin of a $1.7 trillion dollar mailing industry is now.”
The Improving Postal Operations, Service, and Transparency Act of 2015, reflects the views of a broad range of stakeholders and offers a compromise solution to the difficult issues that Congress and the Postal Service have struggled with for years. The bill includes a comprehensive package of reforms that would place the Postal Service on firm financial footing, stabilize and improve service performance, allow for the development of new products and services, and enhance transparency. The bipartisan bill was introduced by Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) and is cosponsored by Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), and Roy Blunt (R-MO).
