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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 140

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United 
 States Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to ensure 
          the continuation of its 6-day mail delivery service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2001

 Mr. Graves submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Government Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United 
 States Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to ensure 
          the continuation of its 6-day mail delivery service.

Whereas the United States Postal Service has announced that, in order to offset 
        a projected budget shortfall, it may need to reduce the frequency of its 
        mail delivery service from 6 days to 5 days a week (by ending Saturday 
        delivery of mail);
Whereas 6-day mail delivery is an essential service that the American people 
        have relied on since 1912, particularly working families that depend on 
        the Postal Service for the timely delivery of their paychecks;
Whereas Social Security is the primary or sole source of income for many senior 
        citizens, and any delay in the delivery of their Social Security checks 
        would make it difficult for them to purchase even essential items such 
        as food and medicine; and
Whereas ending Saturday mail deliveries would inevitably cause not only delays 
        in the delivery of mail, but higher postal costs, due to the many hours 
        of additional overtime that the Postal Service would require in order to 
        handle the resulting backup of mail: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the United States Postal Service should take all appropriate measures 
to ensure the continuation of its 6-day mail delivery service.
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