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Killgore Trout9/06/2011 9:23:40 am PDT

This isn’t going to end well….
Facing default, Postal Service turns to Congress

Drawing the ire of the postal workers’ union is a website maintained by the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, which promotes the Ross-Issa Postal Reform Act. The website, “Saving the Postal Service,” calls for no taxpayer bailouts, and would unilaterally rewrite collective bargaining agreements, cut reduced rates for non-profits and political committees, set up a commission to decide on closing of post office locations, and raise revenue by selling advertising space on mail trucks and in post offices. [There is no mention in the bill of eliminating lawmakers’ franking privileges.]

APWU President Cliff Guffey chastised Rep Darrell Issa, R-Calif., for “wasting taxpayer money” with the site, and said the proposed law “would destroy the Postal Service as we know it.”