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Comments To Postal Regulatory Commission On Need For Public Inquiry Docket On U.S. Postal Service’s Delivering For America Plan
The Lexington Institute opposes the U.S. Postal Service’s Motion for Reconsideration of Order No. 6488 (“USPS Motion”), filed in this docket on May 5, 2023. Moreover, the Lexington Institute strongly supports the Postal Regulatory Commission’s creation ...
U.S. Postal Service Board Should Promote Transparency And Independent Evaluations
During today’s public comment period before the U.S. Postal Service’s Board of Governors, the Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler urged the Board to promote transparency and independent evaluations of the Postal Service. His remarks are below. The U.S. ...
The Imploding US Postal Service Bailout (From The Hill)
When politicians overwhelmingly pass a massive federal bailout, taxpayers expect it will work. But Washington, D.C. is now so broken that even this can no longer be assumed. Exhibit A is the Postal Service Reform Act (PSRA), one of the few biparti ...
Postal Service Rescue Hype Gives Way To Auditing Realism
The 2022 Postal Service Reform Act provided $107 billion in financial assistance to the chronically troubled U.S. Postal Service (USPS) although by law USPS has long been required to be self-supporting. Signed by President Biden on April 6, 2022, the a ...
Comments To Postal Regulatory Commission On Disclosure Of Postal Service Documents Used In Formulating International Postal Policy
The Lexington Institute has examined international postal issues for 20 years and is a member of the U.S. Department of State’s International Postal and Delivery Services Advisory Committee. We were strong advocates for terminal dues reform adopted at ...
Give Postal Workers Tasers — For Their Safety And Ours (From InsideSources DC Journal)
America’s rising, out-of-control crime wave is claiming a growing number of Postal Service workers as victims of robberies, beatings and even murder. It is time to fight back and arm at least some of them with tasers. In bold and vicious ways, po ...
Why It Matters That U.S. Mail Volume Is Dropping Precipitously (From RealClearMarkets)
The steady decline in mail volume over the past 15 years has recently kicked into high gear, potentially foreshadowing major financial problems for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the demise of a communications medium that has literally knit the nat ...
Stop Fentanyl Shippers From Exploiting The U.S. Postal System (From The National Interest)
In 2018, Congress came together on an overwhelming bicameral, bipartisan basis to enact a sensible, technologically proven, low-cost measure to remove fentanyl shipments from the international postal system. Since then, the leadership of U.S. Customs a ...
Senator Rick Scott Roundtable On Fentanyl Crisis With Families, Border And Law Enforcement Leaders, And Subject-Matter Experts
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) hosted a public roundtable in the Russell Senate Office Building about the fentanyl crisis and steps to address it. The event was also livestreamed via his Twitter and Facebook accounts. Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler spo ...
Statement To Postal Regulatory Commission Re: Mail Standards Report for Congress
The U.S. Congress has directed the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to “analyze the feasibility of restoring service standards for market-dominant products (mail) that were in effect on July 1, 2012, including an examination of the resources and stru ...