Owens Introduces Bill to Preserve Postal Services, Cut Costs
Legislation would co-locate post offices with existing facilitie
Washington, Dec 8 –
Congressman Bill Owens today introduced legislation that would help preserve vital services offered by post offices for millions of Americans who rely on them. H.R. 3584, the Community Postal Service Preservation and Cost Savings Act, would require the Postal Service to review and consider co-locating post offices at retail facilities and municipal buildings. The bill would include post offices that have already closed and those still under threat of closure.
“This legislation offers a solution that cuts costs without sacrificing critical services for New Yorkers,” Owens said. “Closing post offices in our region is not the same as shutting down facilities in urban areas, especially when the nearest location can be as far as 15 miles away. While that might not seem like a lot, imagine doing it in the middle of a New York winter.”
H.R. 3584 harnesses the potential that exists in local municipal buildings and community businesses to host postal facilities, saving the USPS the cost of leasing a building that solely serves postal operations. The bill will help the USPS system work better for its customers and employees while recovering funds that can be used to preserve rural mail service.
“These offices help people to look out for their neighbors and connect to their community, and it is critical that we work to find a solution that works best for rural areas and practices fiscal responsibility,” said Owens.
What Owens is saying is that he aligns himself with Postal Officials on firing Postmasters of small Post offices, moving operations to the neighborhood convenience mart aka” Village Post Offices” run by village idiots. Yah that’ll preserve service.
Where on earth do these people get their information? You would think that one would do some fact finding before repeating something that they heard another uninformed person say.
@ Kingpin – You are mistaken about your taxpayer dollars paying for post offices. Not one penny of your tax dollars goes toward any kind of support for the Postal Service. ALL our revenue is derived from the sale of postage, products and services. The government is not required to get approval from the people before closing stations and branches. They do have to CONSIDER public comments before deciding to close a Post Office, but the people do not have the final say…the Postal Service does.
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No tax dollars are spent on postal operations. Only the sale of stamps and related products generate revenue.
Kingpin, you are incorrect. The USPS does not get any operating money from “the government”. IT has been self sustaining since 1971, funded totally by stamp and mailing services.
They can’t shut down post offices unless approved by the people our tax dollars paid for these post offices an if usps sells them or leases them then the money should go back to the government.