Legislative Agenda: 2015, The Year of Reform?

Ramifications of Inaction: The Carper-Coburn bill was so problematic—particularly in the area of its rate-setting structure—that no action, in this case, was better than reform legislation. But this ongoing drama has an expiration date. Something will happen by 2017, as the last reform legislation called for a review of the rate setting process after 10 years. If Congress doesn't act, the review will fall to the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC).