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Representative warns against USPS privatization, urges protections for processing centers and rural delivery
Summary
Representative Nikki Budzinski told the House Appropriations subcommittee that proposals to privatize or fold the U.S. Postal Service into the Department of Commerce would harm the agency’s universal service obligation and risk service for rural communities; she urged retention of report language to halt consolidation of processing centers and to
Representative Nikki Budzinski told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government that recent proposals to remove the Postal Service’s independence or to privatize it would harm employees and delay mail service, particularly in rural areas.
BudZinski said the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 established USPS as an independent agency and that Congress must not cede sole congressional oversight. She warned that privatization or folding the Postal Service into another department would undermine the agency’s universal service obligation and…
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