At this event, AEI visiting scholar R. Richard Geddes, who urged for postal reform in his 2003 AEI Press book "Saving the Mail," will present an updated policy paper that assesses the USPS’s current situation and argues for long-term, concrete reform.

Given the Postal Service's fiscal crisis, and the need to adjust to market realities, it is time to put the Service on a course toward meaningful structural change that will give it the ability to adjust to demand for its core activity of delivering physical mail.

The Postal Service needs to be converted into a regular business, facing market competition and disciplined by active, focused shareholders. It must be permitted to reduce its high and rigid costs, and to adjust to the realities of a new communications marketplace. This should be done through de-monopolization, corporatization, and eventual privatization, as has been done in many other countries.

Suffice to say that this important bill may be the last, best hope for reforming the Postal Service before taxpayers are handed the bill for its impending fiscal Armageddon.

President George W. Bush recently established the Commission on the United States Postal Service, whose final report in August 2003 may lay the groundwork for the first major reform of the U.S. Postal Service in thirty years. Mirroring the administration’s initiative, AEI is sponsoring its own Postal Reform...

The President’s Commission on the Postal Service report is a thoughtful, concise, yet thorough evaluation of the U.S. Postal Service.

President Bush recently established a commission on the United States Postal Service, whose final report in August 2003 may lay the groundwork for the first major reform of the Postal Service in thirty years. Mirroring the administration’s initiative, AEI is sponsoring its own Postal Reform Initiative-a series of...