Backlash Against USPS Mail Plant Closures Threatens Reform Bill

The massive political backlash against U.S. Postal Service plans to reduce the size of its mail processing network by 50 percent has reached fever pitch, threatening to completely block any postal reform legislation. A key postal reform bill could reach the Senate floor as early as Monday, sources in the Senate suggested today, but a Senator has come forward threatening to block the debate…damaging claims put forward by Senator Susan Collins and Representative Gerry Connelly, respectively a Republican and Democrat, could fuel protests against hundreds of USPS mail plant closures planned to begin later this year.