Well, so much for the United States
Postal Service’s own efforts to staunch some of the fiscal
bleeding. The postmaster had declared in February that they would
be cutting Saturday deliveries of first-class mail, despite not
getting clearance from Congress first, in order to try to reduce
its significant losses. The Government Accountability Office is not
on board.
Bloomberg
reports:
The service is bound by law to deliver mail six days a week, and
is incorrect in interpreting that the temporary measure used to
fund U.S. government operations released it from that requirement,
the GAO said in a letter to Representative Gerald Connolly, a
Virginia Democrat, who requested that the watchdog agency look at
the matter.
The plan to cut delivery of letter mail while retaining package
delivery on Saturdays “rests upon a faulty USPS premise,” GAO
General Counsel Susan Poling said in the letter.
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