Murphy Column on Fixing the Postal Service

In an opinion column in the Bangor Daily News, William Murphy, the director of UMaine’s Bureau of Labor Education writes about how the U.S. Postal Service could not only be saved but also revitalized. Murphy states President Obama and Congress need to examine the USPS’s financial problems, including a law that requires the USPS to prefund future retiree health benefits at a rate of $5.5 billion annually over a 10-year period.

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