Postal Reform: Yea or Nay?

However, the House version of the postal reform bill would, if enacted, simplify the rate-setting process; enable officials to levy emergency price increases due to extraordinary circumstances (e.g., anthrax attacks via the mail) and enter into negotiated service agreements with mailers; and transfer the military retiree pension obligations of USPS employees back to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. No doubt these and other provisions would help the USPS.