All policy options assessed are from various bills seeking to address the US Postal Service’s fiscal problems.
| The Requirement to Prefund Health Benefits |
Results |
- Whether to reduce, end or maintain the requirement to prefund future retiree health benefits for postal service workers
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National and By Party |
By Demographics |
| A Wider Range of Products and Services |
Results |
- Whether to allow the US Postal Service to offer a wider range of products and services that could generate revenue for the USPS. These include self-service photocopying, expanding money transfer services, providing a highly secure email system, offering internet access, providing consulting services to countries modernizing their postal services, renting excess space to local governments, renting space to private companies, selling ad space in post offices and on USPS trucks and offer small-scale individual savings accounts
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National and By Party |
By Demographics |
| Raising Postal Rates |
Results |
- Whether to allow postal rates to rise faster than inflation if warranted by increasing costs
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National and By Party |
By Demographics |
| Closing Post Offices |
Results |
- Whether to allow the Postal Service to close most unprofitable post offices, which would close 12% of all post offices or no more than 5% of post offices
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National and By Party |
By Demographics |
| Eliminating Saturday Letter Delivery |
Results |
- Whether to allow the Postal Service to eliminate letter delivery for Saturday, but keeping delivery of packages and priority mail
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National and By Party |
By Demographics |
| Reducing Door Delivery |
Results |
- Whether to require or promote voluntary conversion from door‐delivery mail boxes to curbside or cluster boxes
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National and By Party |
By Demographics |
| Labor Dispute Arbitration |
Results |
- Whether to require that in the event of labor disputes, arbitrators always take into account the Postal Service’s long‐term financial stability
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National and By Party |
By Demographics |
