Mailer groups blasted the timing of Postmaster General Jack Potter’s reiteration of the U.S. Postal Service’s commitment to hold postage rates steady until 2006. They fear it could delay passage of reform legislation that’s now before Congress.
Potter said the USPS could delay rate hikes because the USPS has already cut $8.3 billion in costs over the past three years. At a Sept. 14 meeting of the postal Board of Governors in Boston, USPS CFO Richard Strasser said the postal service planned to trim another $1.4 billion, which includes a reduction of 23 million work hours.
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