TPA Submits Comments to the Postal Regulatory Commission on the Statutory Review of Rate Regulation

shenry2024-05-16T16:38:57+00:00Over the past few months, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has seen more than its fair share of turmoil. Thousands of workers are quarantined, net losses remain stubbornly high ($9.2 billion last year), and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s long-overdue operational changes have been met...

Postal Reform Act Is Not A Conservative Solution

shenry2024-05-16T16:37:09+00:00Last week, despite opposition from numerous free-market and conservative groups, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted to pass the Postal Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 756) out of committee. This is a committee with eight conservative Freedom Caucus members on it, yet this is...

TPA Submits Comments to the Postal Regulatory Commission on the 2016 Annual Compliance Report

shenry2024-05-16T16:40:22+00:00Chairman Taub, and Commissioners Acton, Langley, Hammond: The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) requests to submit the following reply comments to the Postal Regulatory Commission upon considering the materials submitted by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) (notably, the Annual Compliance Report for Fiscal Year 2016), and comments...

ATR Leads Coalition Urging Opposition to Latest “Postal Reform” Bill

shenry2024-05-16T16:43:38+00:00This week, the more than 20 groups signed a coalition letter authored by Americans for Tax Reform opposing H.R. 756, the “Postal Service Reform Act of 2017” introduced by House Government Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), and the Committee’s Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.). The bill does...

TPA Sends Letter on USPS Reform to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

shenry2024-05-16T16:45:18+00:00The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA), representing the millions of Americans across the country who embrace a sensible and fiscally responsible federal government, call on Congress to ensure that new efforts in reforming the U.S Postal Service (USPS) are executed in a sound and constructive manner...

Postal Service Should Not Be Left Out of Swamp Draining

shenry2024-05-16T16:46:32+00:00Brian McNicoll is a conservative columnist and freelance writer based in Alexandria, Va. He has worked as a newspaper writer, editor and columnist, as a senior writer for The Heritage Foundation and as director of communications for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....

TPA: Our Two Cents is that the Postal Service Two-Cent Hike Is Unjustified and Unnecessary

shenry2024-05-16T16:48:21+00:00On Sunday, January 22nd, the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) price increase for First-Class mail stamps from 47 to 49 cents went into effect. This rate hike, imposed on the millions of consumers and users of the mail system, was regrettably approved by the Postal Regulatory...

Postal Service Consultants Cost $5 Billion

shenry2024-05-16T16:49:23+00:00The United States Postal Service (USPS) is in a deep financial mess that taxpayers will likely end up bailing out if steps aren’t taken immediately to address the serious financial problems. The reported net loss of the USPS for the current fiscal year was $5.6...

Continued Lack of Transparency and Inefficiency Raises Concern at the USPS

shenry2024-05-16T16:50:34+00:00In the past we’ve written extensively about the United States Postal Service (USPS) and their annual multi-billion dollar deficits (going on 10 years now), questionable accounting practices, attempts to venture into business areas completely unrelated to their mission at an undisclosed cost to taxpayers, as well as their failure to properly...