Y 4.P84/10:98-62 STATUS OF U.S. POSTAL SERVICE JOINT HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON POSTAL OPERATIONS AND SERVICES AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON POSTAL PERSONNEL AND MODERNIZATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS TOM DEYULIA, Staff Director ROBERT E. LOCKHART, General Counsel PATRICIA F. RISSLER, Deputy Staff Director and Chief Clerk JOSEPH A. FISHER, Minority Staff Director OVERSIGHT HEARING ON THE STATUS OF THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1984 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON POSTAL Washington, DC. The subcommittees met at 2:05 p.m., pursuant to call, in room 311, Cannon House Office Building, Hon. Robert Garcia (chairman of the Subcommittee on Postal Operations and Services) presiding. Mr. ACKERMAN [presiding]. The committee meeting is called to order. I would like to announce that both Congressman Garcia and Congressman Leland are unavoidably delayed and are expected to be here. Chairman Ford, the chairman of the full committee, will be coming a little bit later on today. So I guess it is up to me at my first appearance at the subcommittee as a freshman to assume a good comfortable chair. I guess that is a good initiation, right? I would like to welcome you to the joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Postal Personnel and Modernization and the Subcommittee on Postal Operations and Services. We are here today to examine the status of the U.S. Postal Service. Without a doubt, this is an important period for the Postal Service. Currently, the Postal Service is undergoing many critical changes which will have significant impact on its future operations. I would like to welcome here today our Postmaster General, which may mark, I believe, his final appearance before this committee in that capacity. So with no further ado, let me introduce for testimony our Postmaster General, William Bolger. STATEMENT OF HON. WILLIAM F. BOLGER, POSTMASTER GENERAL Mr. BOLGER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this is the sixth year this committee has given me the opportunity to come talk to you about my favorite subject: the Nation's Postal Service. Today may be my last opportunity, so I intend to make the most of it by speaking frankly about what I think works well and what needs attention. You should not be surprised to observe that much of what I have to say is not so far different from what you have heard me say before. (1) |