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President Obama's budget backs six-day delivery:
President Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget proposal requires the continuation of six-day delivery by the Postal Service. The administration also promises to work with postal unions and other stakeholders to keep the Postal Service strong for years to come. In setting the amount for “revenue forgone” to cover the costs of free and reduced rate mail, the spending plan says payments will be made “provided that 6-day delivery and rural delivery of mail shall continue at not less than the 1983 level....” Looking to the future, the proposal, submitted to Congress on February 1, states, “The Administration will work with the Postal Service, its employee unions, the Congress, and other stakeholders to make sure the Postal Service (remains) a pillar of the American economy and a vital public resource through the current crisis and over the long haul.”
Postal privatization a “bad idea,” Obama says: In a citizen question-and-answer interview, President Obama said privatization of government services is “a bad idea most of the time”—and definitely a bad idea when it comes to the U.S. Postal Service. Private firms would love to cherry-pick profitable business from the USPS, he said, but “those companies would not want to provide universal service.”
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