The House Rules Committee late last night voted against giving the U.S. Postal Service $500 million to pay for mail sanitation equipment.
The 8-2 vote killed an amendment to an $20 billion Defense Department appropriations bill that would have been the first installment of funds on the $3 billion that Postmaster General John Potter requested to help pay for equipment to rid the mails of biological agents such as anthrax.
Losses, profits and delivery performances – USPS, La Poste, Poste Italiane, Deutsche Post
Read MoreBelgian particle beam accelerator maker Ion Beam Applications has signed a contract with the USPS to sterilise mail in a bid to try and eliminate anthrax from the countrys mail system.
Read MoreGrim new revenue projections could lead the U.S. Postal Service to ask Congress for more than $5 billion this week to offset higher security costs and lower revenues due to the anthrax scare and terrorism. The $5 billion figure, more than twice the amount estimated last week, is based on reports by postal officials to their board of governors on Tuesday. The postal service may have lost as much as $800 million between Sept. 8 and Nov. 2, due to a sharp drop in mail volume, said Richard Strasser, the Postal Service’s chief financial officer. On Thursday, Postmaster General John E. Potter is expected to ask a Senate Appropriations subcommittee for a one-time outlay to cover the crisis. Robert E. McLean, executive director of the Mailers Council, an Arlington, Va.-based group of corporate and non-profit bulk mailers, said Potter may seek as much as $6 billion to $8 billion. If Congress doesn’t provide the funding, Potter has said the Postal Service might need a rate increase to cover the additional costs.
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