Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid issued the following statement after the United States Postmaster General made the decision to suspend mail delivery on Saturdays: “While I question the legality of the Postmaster General’s decision to suspend Saturday mail delivery, this unfortunate scenario could have been wholly prevented if the House had passed the Senate’s bipartisan…
Washington, D.C. – Nevada Senator Harry Reid spoke on the Senate floor today on postal reform. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery: For more than 200 years, America’s postal system thrived and grew in spite of rapidly-changing technology. The Postal Service survived the invention of the telegraph and the telephone. It expanded despite…
Washington, D.C. – Nevada Senator Harry Reid spoke on the Senate floor today on postal reform. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery: Enshrined in the Constitution by the Founders, the U.S. Postal Service has delivered this nation’s letters since the day of quill and ink well. Through the years when stamps cost a…