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02/25/2004 Entry: "MAILERS URGE POSTAL REFORM"

DMNews reports that a coalition of mailers told the House Special Panel on Postal Reform and Oversight that "USPS is in financial and systemic distress. True postal reform can be achieved only through a comprehensive set of measures . . . that address the difficult, yet crucial, issues of cost control and regulatory oversight." The letter to the Special Panel was signed by Robert Walker, head of Postal Reform in the Public Interest and a member of the President's Commission on the Postal Service. According to the article, Walker said "USPS should be free to optimize its facility network and retail operations, including workforce, without interference by Congress. It also supports a collective bargaining process that includes alternatives to the current binding arbitration process, and that would result in 'wage and benefit levels comparable to those in the private sector.'"