OK, the President’s Commission on the U.S. Postal Service has finally issued its long-awaited recommendations for postal legislative change. Now what?
Well, now we find ourselves in the same place we were before the commission ever started. Now we have to convince Capitol Hill and the White House which of the commission’s recommendations should be enacted into law.
One of the realities of postal political life in the United States is that change is often slow in coming and difficult to achieve. For any postal legislative proposal to wind its way to enactment, the agreement of all postal principals is essential. That means mailers, the USPS, competitors and postal employees must define a course of action that can win the greatest support.
If agreement is the goal, then postal scapegoating has to end. If a finger must be pointed at a cause of blame for the postal service’s current dilemma, look no further than the
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