ICYMI: Davids Votes to Save Postal Service, Taxpayer Dollars

Last week, Representative Sharice Davids voted to pass the Postal Service Reform Act, bipartisan legislation to put the U.S. Postal Service on stronger financial footing and improve reliability after years of disastrous cuts and delays under Postmaster General DeJoy. The Senate is expected to vote on the legislation later this week.

"As the daughter of a long-time postal worker who has seen firsthand how DeJoy's catastrophic mismanagement of the Postal Service impacted USPS employees and millions of Kansas families, seniors, and businesses, I'm proud to vote for these bipartisan reforms," said Davids. "This bill will not only improve reliability and transparency for Kansans who rely on the USPS for their medications, bills, and business operations—it will also save taxpayers $1.5 billion over the next decade."

The Postal Service adds one million new delivery points every year, even as mail volume continues to fall, meaning it is delivering less and less mail to more and more places. In addition, several congressional mandates imposed when mail volume was at its peak put the Postal Service on the road to insolvency. The bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act will:

• Welcome all future postal retirees into Medicare, ensuring that these public servants can get the quality health care they deserve – while saving USPS $22.6 billion over the next decade,
• Free USPS from the unnecessary requirement to prefund retiree health benefits 75 years in advance, which would save USPS $27 billion over the next decade,
• Improve USPS reliability, with new transparency measures that will help ensure consistent on-time mail delivery.

Davids has been a consistent advocate for a strong, reliable USPS that delivers on its constitutional mandate. Hundreds of thousands of Kansans rely on USPS for their medications, bills, ballots, and to run their businesses. After Postmaster DeJoy and the previous Administration implemented several changes at the USPS causing long mail delivery delays, from the removal of nearly 700 mail sorting machines to blocking USPS funding to make it harder for people to vote, Davids called for action to save the Postal Service from further partisan and financial attacks.