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If you are opposed to the sale of America's historic post offices, please ask our elected federal officials to take action.

President Barack Obama

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Write or call the President:

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 2500


Phone: (202) 456-1111 (Comments)
Switchboard: (202) 456-1414
TTY/TDD: (202) 456-6213

Email the President

Senator Barbara Boxer

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Washington DC Office:
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3553



Oakland Office: 
 70 Washington Street, Suite 203
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 286-8537
(202) 224-0454 fax

Email Senator Boxer
Click for a sample letter to Senator Boxer

Senator Dianne Feinstein

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Washington DC Office:
331 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
TTY/TDD: (202) 224-2501

San Francisco Office:
One Post Street
Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: (415) 393-0707
Fax: (415) 393-0710

Email Senator Feinstein
Click for a sample letter to Senator Feinstein

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

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Washington DC Office:
2267 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2661
Fax: (202) 225-9817


Oakland Office:
1301 Clay Street Suite 1000-N
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 763-0370
Fax: (510) 763-6538

Email Congresswoman Lee


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USPS Governance and Oversight

Find out about our public servants who are members of the USPS Board of Governors, the Postal Regulatory Commission, and the House and Senate Committees that exercise oversight on postal service operations.  Click to view or download our Guide to USPS Governance and Oversight.

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Postal Service Protection Act of 2013

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June 19th Update on the Postal Service Protection Act of 2013

S.316 is the legislation introduced by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to fix the manufactured USPS financial crisis.  Twenty-eight senators have signed on as co-sponsors. H.R.630 is similar legislation introduced in the House by Oregon Congressman Pete DeFazio.  It now has 162 co-sponsors.  But the question is: How many co-sponsors does it take before Darrell Issa's committee will actually begin discussion of this legislation, let alone send it to the House floor for a vote?
Click to view or download a list of the twenty-eight senators and thirty-one California congressional representatives who have endorsed this progressive legislation.
When we first starting following these bills back on March 11th, DeFazio's bill had 31 co-sponsors.  Now there are 162 including thirty-one California congressional representatives who have endorsed H.R.630.  George Miller and Nancy Pelosi are the Bay Area members of the twenty-two California congressional representatives who have yet to sign on as co-sponsors.  H.R.630 has seven Republican co-sponsors and 155 Democrats.  Why is it that one man, California's Darrell Issa, can keep this bill from having even a hearing?  And what will it take to get Speaker John Boehner to bring this bill to the House floor?

On March 28th when we first reported on the Sanders' bill there were only twelve Senators who had signed on.  Now there are twenty-eight.  We have met with representatives of Senators Boxer and Feinstein to present your letters and we continue to ask  when California's senators will endorse S.316 and take action to protect our historic post offices.

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Sign Congressman Peter DeFazio's petition to the White House

It only takes a moment to sign up on the White House site. Over 28,000 people have already signed Oregon Congressman Pete DeFazio's petition.  Join them!
If the petition receives a total of 100,000 signatures by May 24, 2013, the White House will formally reply.
Twenty-five Senators and 152 members of the House are sponsoring these bills to put the Postal Service back on a solid financial footing.
Join in petitioning the Obama Administration to: Save the Postal Service-Save American Jobs.
About 80% of USPS financial losses since 2007 are due to a Congressional mandate to prefund 75 years of future retiree health benefits over 10 years. In 2012 USPS lost a record $15.9 billion, but $11.1 billion of that loss went to prefund healthcare. This must change.
  • USPS shouldn’t move to 5-day delivery. This would only save 3%, risk further revenue losses, and slow mail delivery.
  • USPS needs to re-establish overnight delivery standards to ensure the timely delivery of mail and prevent the closure of mail plants.
  • USPS needs to generate more revenue by ending a 2006 ban prohibiting USPS from offering new products and services.
Does the Administration support HR 630 and S 316 to make these changes, save American jobs, and allow USPS to remain competitive?
Sign the petition!

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White House Budget for FY 2014 gives USPS authority to go
to 5-day delivery starting in June 2013

The Budget first improves USPS financial condition by returning to USPS surplus amounts it has paid into its OPM account for its share of Federal Employee Retirement System costs

Second, the Budget proposes to restructure USPS retiree health benefits payments that are currently specified in the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. This change would still prudently pre-fund retiree health liabilities, but on an accruing cost basis rather than the amounts fixed in current law. This restructuring would provide USPS with approximately $10 billion in temporary financial relief through 2016. The Budget also proposes to codify the two missed RHB payments in 2012; although these amounts are incorporated in the 40-year amortization schedule starting in 2017, they currently remain as outstanding liabilities on the Postal Service financial statement in 2012.

In addition, the Budget proposes operational reforms that would do the following: 1) reduce USPS operating costs by giving USPS authority to reduce mail delivery frequency from six days to five days, starting in June 2013; 2) allow USPS to increase collaboration with State and local governments; and 3) give the USPS the ability to better align the costs of postage with the costs of mail delivery by permitting USPS Board of Governors to enact a modest one-time increase in postage rates among market-dominant products, such as first-class and standard mail. All together, these reforms would provide USPS with over $30 billion in cash relief, operational savings, and revenue through 2016, and produce PAYGO savings of $23 billion over 11 years.

Click to view pages from the actual Fiscal Year 2014 Budget that affect the USPS.

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