U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today released the following statement after the
United States Postal Service announced that it would end Saturday mail delivery
in August:
“We won a hard-fought battle in the Senate last year
with strongly bipartisan postal reform that would have put the Postal Service on
the path to sound financial footing, protected rural post offices, and provided
strict criteria for the Postal Service to meet before eliminating six-day
delivery. Unfortunately, instead of passing the bill, the Republicans in the
U.S. House abandoned rural America and allowed the legislation to die. And this
is the result of their inaction—an unnecessary loss for business, rural families
and the principle of compromise.”
Last year, McCaskill successfully fought to keep hundreds of rural post offices in
Missouri open and operating—arguing that shutting down rural post offices would
not help the Postal Service achieve substantial cost-savings.
McCaskill recently wrote to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe requesting a more
thorough and up-to-date financial analysis of five-day delivery
financial projections.
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