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Steve Musacco

Representative Lynch, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee that oversees the Postal Service, recently announced his committee will hold a hearing this month on the pay and benefits paid to John Potter, Postmaster General.

Besides the pay and benefits of John Potter, Postmaster General, there are many other issues and questions the U.S. Congress needs to look at. Below are some of the more salient issues and questions.

1. Reform of the postal culture. That is, moving the postal culture from one that is highly authoritarian and paramilitary to one that validates the dignity of all its employees and routinely treats them with the fairness and respect that they deserve.

2. The relationship between large business mailers, the Board of Governors (BOG), and the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC).

3. Why has the BOG and their point person, the Postmaster General, been “hell bent” on contracting-out core postal operations and relaxation of collective bargaining agreements over the last 20 or more years, especially the last several years?

4. Why are meetings between many of the large business mailer advocates and the Postal Service outside of public purview?

5. Why hasn’t the Postal Service’s Office Inspector General Office (OIG) or the United States General Accounting Office investigated the relationship between the BOG, high-ranking postal officials, and the PRC to see if there has been a violation of public trust, and yes even unethical business ties and practices?

Accountability and oversight of these issues by the United States Congress are vastly more important than the salary and benefits of John Potter.

Action to reform the postal culture is necessary now.  Postal employees, regardless of rank or position, deserve a postal culture in which the core values of respect, fairness, and validation of dignity, are not empty slogans, but instead are the reality of organizational life.

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