# Normalizes Pay & Benefits: mandates that postal workers pay at least the same health and life insurance premiums federal workers do, and clarifies that compensation parity with the private sector is maintained.
# Establishes a Restructuring Authority to Turnaround Postal Defaults: when the Postal Service fails to pay its bills for more than 30 days, a receivership-style authority takes over for USPS management with an explicit mandate to cut costs while maintaining universal service. Management is replaced if they cannot successfully restructure Postal Service finances. Restructuring will be financed with an up to $10 billion line of credit that must be fully collaterialized by postal facilities. The restructuring authority will have the ability to make policy changes to cut costs as well- for instance- by moving from expensive door delivery to curb or cluster boxes in neighborhoods, the Postal Service will save $3.5 billion annually, while maintaining to the greatest extent possible door service in poor, densely populated, and historic neighborhoods. The solvency authority will also have the ability to remove postal workers from the expensive federal workers compensation system to be placed in their own.
# Enables Postal Service to Pursue New Revenue: even though the Postal Service is supposed to act like a private business, it can't make money from selling advertisements. The Issa-Ross Postal Reform Act allows USPS to sell advertising space on vehicles and facilities, as long as the ads respect the Postal Service's integrity.
# Offers an Affordable Payment Plan for Retiree Health Care Benefits: Allows the Postal Service to make the retiree health care funding payment they can make this year, roughly $1 billion, and pay the balance in equal installments in Fiscal Year 2015 and Fiscal Year 2016.
# Surpluses in Pension Accounts to Facilitate Workforce Rightsizing: Provides for consideration of using a net surplus in all Postal Service pension accounts to fund the cost of reducing the size of the postal workforce. This provision protects taxpayers by ensuring that surplus funds are only accessible if there is an actual net surplus in all accounts...
http://postal.oversight.house.gov/OurPlan.html
And opponents:
http://www.nalc.org/depart/legpol/pdf/2011/hr_2309_fact_sheet.pdf
How much longer are you going to put up with this? What percentage of the American people would vote for this bill? Yet Congress will pass it. They don't work for you, they work for Wall Street. How much longer? Get off your knees, before it's too late.
