Year in Review -- 2005 All About Bob

Postal reform took a step closer to becoming reality when the Bush Administration agreed to seek alternative sources for funding the military service portion of postal retirees, as opposed to making rate payers cover the cost. But it hardly proved to be an unrolling of the red carpet, as future events—namely several natural disasters—diverted the attention of Congress and left reform legislation in a holding pattern as 2005 drew to a close.