A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to establish improved standards to achieve efficient mail service, to provide an effective method of reimbursing the U.S. Postal Service for public service costs while maintaining a reasonable postal rate structure.

Summary

Provides that the Postal Service shall establish and assure, to all postal patrons, service standards which include but are not limited to: (1) next-day delivery of mail deposited for delivery within a five-hundred-mile radius; (2) delivery within not more than three consecutive days of mail deposited for delivery within the United States outside a five-hundred-mile radius; (3) carrier services, including parcel post delivery, on a six-day-a-week basis; (4) post office window service on a six-day-a-week basis; and (5) second attempt delivery of parcel post. States that any administrative or managerial official of the Postal Service who knowingly and willfully engages in specific actions to violate any of these service standards, or to prevent or impede the efficient and effective application of and adherence to such standards, shall be discharged from the Postal Service. Provides that public service costs, as determined by postal service, for providing a maximum degree of effective and regular postal service nationwide, in communities where postal office may not be deemed self-sustaining, as elsewhere, and in complying with this Act at reasonable and equitable rates and fees shall be paid out of the general fund of the Treasury and shall not constitute direct charges in the form of rates and fees upon any user or class of users of such public services, or of the mails generally.

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Timeline

1. 30 April 1973

   Introduced

   Referred to Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 30 April 1973

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 30 April 1973

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Sen. Gravel, Mike [D-AK] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Bayh, Birch [D-IN] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. McGovern, George [D-SD] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Ribicoff, Abraham A. [D-CT] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Abourezk, James [D-SD] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Bible, Alan [D-NV] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Pastore, John O. [D-RI] · D · Cosponsor
• · sspo00 · Standing

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