Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3346 Primary Sponsor:Baxley Committee Number:24 Type of Legislation:CR Subject:Postal increases Residing Body:House Current Committee:Invitations and Memorial Resolutions Computer Document Number:BR1/1160.AC Introduced Date:Jan 29, 1991 Last History Body:House Last History Date:Jan 29, 1991 Last History Type:Introduced, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Baxley Type of Legislation:Concurrent Resolution
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3346 House Jan 29, 1991 Introduced, referred to 24
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EXPRESSING THE OPPOSITION AND DISPLEASURE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO THE POSTAL RATE INCREASES APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE BOARD OF GOVERNORS WHICH BECOME EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 1, 1991.
Whereas, the United States Postal Service Board of Governors has approved a postal rate increase that will go into effect February 1, 1991; and
Whereas, the postal rate for a first class letter is being raised from twenty-five cents to twenty-nine cents, more than a fifteen percent increase, and some classes of mail are even being increased more than twenty percent; and
Whereas, the last increase was as recent as 1988 and an increase of this magnitude so soon after another increase places an undue burden on the public; and
Whereas, there is much inefficiency in the postal delivery system and the postal service's own figures show that first class mail moved fifteen percent more slowly in 1988 than it did in 1969 and the postal service anticipated a further slowdown in 1990; and
Whereas, this increase in postal rates is not directed at improving efficiency, nor providing more jobs for the unemployed and not even for additional services for its customers but rather the postal service claims the increase is due to rising costs and is necessary to break even at the current level of services; and
Whereas, the Professional Letter Carriers Association charges that the postal service would not have needed a rate increase if it had not purchased prematurely automated equipment not yet needed by the service that will displace workers more quickly than necessary; and
Whereas, increasing the efficiency of the United States Postal Service, not to mention operating within budget, should be a top priority of the service that should be accomplished without imposing an additional "taxation" on citizens of this country for services that are basic to daily living. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, expresses its opposition and displeasure to the postal rate increases approved by the United States Postal Service Board of Governors which become effective February 1, 1991.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the United States Postmaster, General Anthony M. Frank, the United States Postal Service Board of Governors, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and the South Carolina Congressional Delegation.