: Universal service at risk, Postal Service's
: governing board warns

: WASHINGTON
: (March 9, 2001 8:40 a.m. EST ) - Moving to block massive
: losses as costs climb and business slips, the U.S. Postal
: Service is freezing hundreds of new construction and
: leasing projects across the country. And the agency's
: governing board issued a warning Thursday that unless there
: are changes in the laws that regulate how the post office
: operates, universal service to every home, every day, could

: be in danger.

: Postal officials didn't provide a dollar estimate for the
: savings they expect in the cutbacks, but they said more
: than 800 planned projects in all states will be affected.

: The move comes just two months after the price of first-class
: mail went up a penny to 34 cents.

: Many other rates rose also, but several price increases in
: other types of mail that had been sought by the agency were
: rejected or trimmed by the independent Postal Rate
: Commission.

: With rising costs, postal officials now say they face a $2
: billion to $3 billion loss this fiscal year. After five
: years in the black, the post office had a $199 million loss
: last fiscal year.

: Postal managers are preparing to apply this summer for another
: rate increase, to take effect next year.

: Among the problems cited by the Postal Service are wage rate
: increases larger than the rate of inflation, rising fuel
: costs, changes in the type of mail being processed,
: increased competition and forecasts calling for the
: diversion of some first-class mail to electronic
: alternatives.

: The construction and leasing freeze affects facilities that
: the agency has made commitments to but where construction
: has not yet begun.

: "All new construction, new leasing and expansion planned
: for 2001 is frozen," postal spokeswoman Judy de Torok
: said.

: The projects already under way won't be halted, she added, and
: a few planned projects will continue if needed for health
: and safety reasons.

: Meanwhile, the universal service that Americans take for
: granted could be in jeopardy unless laws regulating
: operations are changed, said the postal governing board.

: "Regrettably, our call for an additional rate increase,
: following so soon after the last one, reflects the fact
: that the 30-year-old statutory model that governs the
: Postal Service is in need of change to protect universal
: service at affordable rates," board chairman Robert F.
: Rider said.

: For the past several years postal leaders have sought changes
: in the law to give them more flexibility in changing rates
: and services to cope with rising costs and changes in
: competition. Under current rules it takes nearly a year to
: change rates.

: Long negotiations and hearings produced a bill they felt would
: solve many of their problems last year, but the measure
: never came up for a vote and died with the end of the last
: Congress.

: The postal governors this week asked the Rate Commission to
: reconsider the changes it made in their request. They also
: sent a letter to President Bush seeking his assistance in
: getting legislation to provide them more freedom.

: Universal service to every address at uniform rates has been a
: requirement since the nation's founding. For years Congress
: subsidized the service, but when the current system was
: created in the 1970s the subsidies were phased out. The
: post office no longer receives taxpayer money for its
: operations.

: News Copyright © 2000 Interest!ALERT

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http://www.webpal.org/nwo/history.htm

This pasting could be of value to anyone examining what is the cause of effects we are now caused to become heir too.

God Bless:

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