House Moves Postal Service Closer to Eliminating Saturday

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House Panel Moves Postal Service Closer to Eliminating Saturday Mail Delivery

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The House has taken a major step to allow the U.S. Postal Service to eliminate Saturday mail delivery.

The Financial Services and General Government Appropriations subcommittee -- headed by Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla. -- did not include a rider in its version of the fiscal 2015 funding bill to require USPS to deliver mail six days each week. The language has been included in every postal-related appropriations bill since 1983.

House Republicans have backed off their plan to move the Postal Service to five-day mail delivery to pay for a one-year extension of the Highway Trust Fund since members of their caucus rejected the proposal and its author, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., lost his reelection bid. Republicans are pushing forward with their USPS-backed five-day mail delivery plan, however, which would remove the only roadblock preventing the agency from eliminating Saturday delivery.

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