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[ [link removed] ]Welch for Vermont
The Postal Service is a mess.
But help is finally on the way—and you helped make it happen. Thanks to
folks like you speaking out, the Senate passed the Postal Service Reform
Act, the biggest reform to the USPS in nearly two decades.
I fought to pass this bill in the House because it’s going to be a big
help for Vermonters. And this happened because Congress did things the
Vermont way: we listened.
We listened to people who gathered in Elmore to save their rural post
office. We listened to complaints about the uptick in delays—from seniors
who rely on getting life-saving prescription drugs in the mail, people
living paycheck-to-paycheck who weren’t getting their paychecks on time,
rural communities that missed deliveries, small businesses that couldn’t
count on shipments, and more.
, here’s what the Postal
Service Reform Act will do:
* Require six-day delivery for both mail and packages.
* Save the Postal Service $27 billion over the next decade by no longer
requiring them to pre-fund retiree health benefits 75 years into the
future—for employees who haven't even been born yet. Costs which no
other federal agency or private business has had imposed on them.
* Create an online dashboard with updated national and local service
data for more transparency.
The bill now heads to President Biden’s desk, and I’m honored that we
worked together to make it happen. We’re bringing better service to our
communities and will put the Postal Service in its strongest financial
position in years.
[ [link removed] ]These are the kind of positive changes that Democrats can make when we
control Congress, but it will all go away if Republicans win the Senate in
November. We need all hands on deck to win this thing, so chip in right
away.
Thanks for your support,
Peter
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