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Postal reform could move ahead provided it receives strong backing from the White House, the chairman of the House of Representatives committee that includes oversight of the U.S. Postal Service told attendees yesterday at the Direct Marketing Association’s 2003 Government Affairs Conference here. “If the White House is not willing to go with it, I just think it’s going to be very difficult [to get a bill passed] on the Hill,” said Rep. Tom Davis, R-VA, chairman of the Government Reform Committee. “Without them pushing it, without our leadership response to that, you’re just not going to get Congress eager to make decisions [such as closing] post offices and to start angering interest groups.”

The U.S. Postal Service violated federal regulations and undermined management’s credibility when it failed to disclose anthrax test results promptly to workers at a contaminated Connecticut mail facility, the General Accounting Office charged in a report released yesterday. The GAO said postal officials did not comply with Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules in early 2002 when they did not fulfill a request for test results from union representatives at the Southern Connecticut Processing and Distribution Center in Wallingford.