Mailing industry groups were generally pleased that Rep. John McHugh reintroduced last year’s stalled postal reform bill on the opening session of the 109th Congress Tues.
But others warned that mailers must press the White House to clarify why it did not support the bill in the last Congress.
Neal Denton, executive director of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, took this as a very positive sign.
“Over the past decade, John McHugh has been the mailing community’s best friend on Capitol Hill,” he said “And the bill addresses two key issues of [releasing money from the] escrow account and turning over responsibility for the military pensions [of former postal employees] to the Treasury Dept.
In 2003, when the Office of Personnel Management discovered that the USPS was set to overpay its contributions to this fund by more than $70 billion, the mailing industry lobbied hard to get a law passed to have the Treasury Department pick up the tab.
But the law that eventually was passed
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