17th District Congressional Candidates: Postal Service
By: Matthew Fuchs
Updated: October 19, 2012
Our question this morning: What must be done
to make the U.S. Postal Service profitable?
Cheri Bustos:
There
are public private partnerships that can be worked out that I think if we open
that up to more innovative approaches we can make that happen. There's also
been, out of congressional mandate that postal employees have had to prefund
their pension for 75 years.
I think that was an unfair burden that was
asked of them and I think that's caused a lot of financial issues with the
postal service. I would be in favor of not requiring that 75 year prepayment
and I think that's part of the answer as well.
Bobby
Schilling:
The one thing we've got to really look at
with the Postal Service is there's a lot of competition. We've got the internet
now today. What we've got to look at is the top.
A lot of what I believe is wrong with the
Postal Service is it's top heavy. We can't take it out on the people of the
final three feet, the people taking the mail to your box - I think that's
something that's critical that we need to take a look at. And we have to figure
out how we can make them a little more cost-effective, kind of like fed ex and
ups.
