Congress is back from its annual August recess this month with little action on postal reform so far this session. There have not been any bills filed in this session on the subject.
During the previous session of Congress, Sen. Ted Carper of Delaware introduced a bill to relieve the Postal Service of the burden of prefunding $5 billion a year to cover the future retirement benefits of active and retired postal employees. The Postal Service has been unable to meet this requirement the past five or six years.
Carper’s bill was similar to the one introduced a few years prior, introduced at that time by Rep.