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Curtail International Mail’s Role In Opioid Crisis (From The Columbus Dispatch) With Ohio at the center of America’s opioid crisis, seemingly all the stops are being pulled out at the state level to address this epidemic. An important and often overlooked area where the federal government can step in is to more vigorously scrutini ...
United Parcel Service Is On The Forefront Of The Revolution In Healthcare Most of us interact with package delivery companies such as the United Parcel Service (UPS) and FedEx at our front door, as these companies bring our online purchases and whisk away items that looked better on eBay. Without the efficient, secure and ac ...
Will The STOP Act Soon Be Thrust Forward? Following the “first and most urgent recommendation” of the Presidential Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, President Trump has indicated he likely will soon declare a national emergency regarding drug overdoses. In its interim report released on July 31, the Commission emphasizes that 142 Americans die every day from overdoses. From 2002 to 2015 there was a 2.8-fold increase in deaths from opioids, and the trend is accelerating. In 2015, the last year for which statistics are available, there were 52,404 deaths from drug overdoses, with 33,091, or 63.1 percent, from opioids. The National Center for Health Statistics reported on August 8 that drug overdose deaths in the third quarter of 2016 rose 19 percent from the third quarter of 2015, another sharp quarterly increase in 2016 which is bringing the death total close to 60,000 annually. With an estimated 2.6 million opioid addicts in the U.S., the problem is quite serious and could get much worse.
Stop Dangerous Drugs In International Mail (From The National Interest) We need to tighten international mail screenings to help curtail the influx of dangerous new synthetic drugs that can easily be ordered online. I discuss these issues for The National Interest here.
The Crisis in Synthetic Opioids Arriving by International Mail Public safety officials across the United States are scrambling for solutions to a worsening crisis caused by synthetic opioids.  Fentanyl and similar synthetic drugs killed nearly 10,000 Americans in 2015.  As Nathaniel Popper explains in his New York ...
Are Postal Service Retiree Obligations Too Big to Move? (From Federal Times) A May audit report by the Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General projected total retirement liabilities for the agency to be $401.6 billion, against total assets projected at just $338.4 billion, leaving a gap of $63 billion. The audit explains that the Postal Service lost $62.4 billion between FY 2007 and FY 2017, with $54.8 billion of these losses relating to retiree health care prefunding that it had been required to pay down as part of Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. This law required the agency to prefund its looming liabilities by contributing between $5.4 billion to $5.8 billion annually from 2007 and 2016 to the Postal Service Retirement Health Benefits Fund. Instead, it has defaulted on required payments since 2011.
Saving the Postal Service Requires Getting the Details Right Change is frequently a difficult experience for many people, no matter how necessary or worthwhile they believe it to be. This is certainly proving to be the case with the future of the U.S. Postal Service, one of our most visible, and treasured, American government institutions. The need for change is well documented and easily recognized. The Postal Service announced a $5 billion operating deficit last year, raising its total, cumulative losses to over $62 billion since 2007. This vast debt burden amounts to roughly $250 for every American adult, with no solution in sight.
Needed International Mail Reforms Inch Forward At the 26th Universal Postal Congress this fall, member countries voted to institute a new payment system for letters and small packages shipped by international mail. The Congress, which concluded October 7 in Istanbul, approved changes to the system known as Terminal Dues, by which postal operators exchange payment for outgoing international mail according to established schedules that put countries into different groups.
How Honest is the Postal Service’s Lance Armstrong Lawsuit? The federal government’s lawsuit against former cycling champion Lance Armstrong could potentially cost the fallen icon nearly $100 million in damages.  But the U.S. Postal Service, on whose behalf the government is seeking to collect, has shown it kno ...
International Postal Update — October 2016 The Universal Postal Union, the governing organization for international mail, concluded its Istanbul Congress with modest revisions to its pricing system for shipments between designated postal operators. Member countries approved pricing changes to this system, known as Terminal Dues, which will increase heavily discounted rates for shipping small packages from China and other designated developing countries to the United States and other industrialized nations. The new, above-inflation price increases, and other price changes, will be in place from 2018-2022.
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