As a key delivery channel for the printing industry, we need an affordable and reliable postal service. Despite help from Congress with the passage of the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has racked up losses of over $16 billion and counting in just two years. The Delivering for America (DFA) plan has failed to put the USPS on a path towards financial stability. Instead, it has resulted in unprecedented twice-a-year rate hikes, poor customer service and mail delays. The plan continues to cause the USPS to exhaust customers and lose revenue.

In its decision to approve the latest rate increase in July of this year, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) stated that the increase was not “prudent…or consistent with the best interests of all stakeholders” but claimed it lacked the statutory basis to reject it. H.R. 3004, the USPS Services Enhancement and Regulatory Viability Expansion and Sustainability for the U.S. Act (USPS SERVES US Act), offers needed reforms to the postal regulatory process to ensure fairness and provide protection for customers captive to the USPS monopoly. 

Among the provisions in the bill are requirements to ensure the USPS improves efficiency and service and limit its rate increase authority if it fails to do so. It would encourage postage rates at levels that preserve mail volume and would give the PRC the power to block service changes it determines are not justified.

Call to Action: Ask your Representatives to co-sponsor and pass the USPS SERVES US Act (H.R. 3004), which would empower the Postal Regulatory Commission with a clear mandate to protect the public interest and hold the USPS accountable for efficiency and service performance. 

Please take a moment to email your representatives in Congress. Every voice counts, and it only takes a minute to make a difference.