USPS’ ‘Safeguards’ Have Been Running Amok for Three Decades

Consider this statement written 31 years ago by then-Postmaster General William F. Bolger: “The main disadvantage of the Postal Service’s present status is that the ‘safeguards’ that accompanied independence have tended to grow to the point that new fetters have been substituted in part for the former ones. The Postal Service continues to be overregulated, and its managers continue to have difficulty finding the authority to execute certain decisions that are necessary to modernize the service and operate the postal system efficiently.”

The overregulation of the U.S. Postal Service has become even more apparent and more damaging today. Congress demands that