The long-fought postal overhaul has been years in the making and comes amid widespread complaints about mail service slowdowns.
Many Americans became dependent on the Postal Service during the COVID-19 crisis, but officials have repeatedly warned that without congressional action it would run out of cash by 2024.
Republican Sen. Jerry Moran said the Postal Service has been in a"death spiral" that is particularly hard on rural Americans, including in his state of Kansas, as post offices shuttered and services were cut."Smart reforms were needed," he said. The bill would end a requirement that the Postal Service finance workers' health care benefits ahead of time for the next 75 years, an obligation that private companies and federal agencies do not face.
Sen. Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat and the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, helmed the legislation and said that since the nation's founding, the Postal Service has become"a vital part of the fabric of our nation." "We need to save our Postal Service," said Sen. Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, another architect of the bill. Portman said the bill is not a bailout, and no new funding is going to the agency.
Dominated by Trump appointees, the agency's board of governors had tapped Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor, as the new postmaster general. He proposed a 10-year plan to stabilize the service's finances with steps like additional mail slowdowns, cutting some offices' hours and perhaps higher rates.
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