Ask your representative to cosponsor H. R. 1351
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We respectfully request that you consider becoming a cosponsor to H.R. 1351, a bill introduced by Representative Stephen Lynch of MA.
The U.S. Postal Service is currently facing a financial crisis partly due to the recession, but more significantly caused by the burdensome requirement of the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) that it make payments averaging $5.5 billion dollars annually to prefund it retiree health benefits. Absent those prefunding mandates the Postal Service would actually be operating at a surplus over the last 4 fiscal years.
In addition, recent independent audits have shown that the USPS has already overfunded its Civil Service Retirement Fund by over $50 billion dollars and also has overfunded the Federal Employee Retirement System by nearly $7 billion dollars.
H.R. 1351 would resolve those financial inequities and bring the Postal Service into financial solvency with no use of tax payer money.
The U.S. Postal Service is currently facing a financial crisis partly due to the recession, but more significantly caused by the burdensome requirement of the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) that it make payments averaging $5.5 billion dollars annually to prefund it retiree health benefits. Absent those prefunding mandates the Postal Service would actually be operating at a surplus over the last 4 fiscal years.
In addition, recent independent audits have shown that the USPS has already overfunded its Civil Service Retirement Fund by over $50 billion dollars and also has overfunded the Federal Employee Retirement System by nearly $7 billion dollars.
H.R. 1351 would resolve those financial inequities and bring the Postal Service into financial solvency with no use of tax payer money.
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The US Postal Service is part of our national identity. I don't like what the PAEA has done to the level of service provided.
Save the USPS, save millions of jobs!!!
Absolutely no other business does this and the only reason this is being done is to destroy the USPS. Take this requirement off.
It is imperitive that this bill come out of the house!
It is very clear that the current USPS crisis is a purely manufactured crisis in order to privatize yet another public service. Please do all you can to keep this instrument of democracy healthy. This bill will go a long way to overcome the greed that is running rampaant in our government.
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