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Free Mail for Troops Overseas

Description: Members of the armed forces on duty in designated combat areas can send personal correspondence, free of postage, to addresses in the United States. There has never been a comparable provision of free postage of letters or packages sent from family members in the United States to loved ones in wartime service overseas. Two bills (H.R. 923 and H.R. 2874) have been introduced that would allow family members and, in the case o H.R. 2874, certain charities to send letters and packages to service me… more
Date: August 22, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Nye
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Changing Postal ZIP Code Boundaries

Description: This report discusses the changing of ZIP Code system and the implications of such an action. The process places responsibility on district managers, rather than local postmasters, to review requests for boundary adjustment, to evaluate costs and benefits of alternative solutions to identified problems, and to provide a decision within 60 days.
Date: June 23, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Nye
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Free Mail for Troops Overseas

Description: Members of the armed forces on duty in designated combat areas can send personal correspondence, free of postage, to addresses in the United States. There has never been a comparable provision of free postage for letters or packages sent from family members in the United States to loved ones in wartime service overseas. Two bills (H.R. 923 and H.R. 2874) have been introduced that would allow family members and, in the case of H.R. 2874, certain charities to send letters and packages to servicem… more
Date: June 22, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Nye
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Postal Reform

Description: This report includes background and analysis of the United States postal reform. Causes of financial crisis, transformative plans, and activity from past congresses are also discussed in this report.
Date: January 20, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Nye
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Free Mail for Troops Overseas

Description: This report mainly discusses about the Free Mail for Troops Overseas. This report also analyzes two proposals and it will be updated in the event of any legislative actions on the bills.
Date: September 29, 2005
Creator: Stevens, Nye
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Free Mail for Troops Overseas

Description: This report mainly discusses about the Free Mail for Troops Overseas. This report also analyzes two proposals and it will be updated in the event of any legislative actions on the bills.
Date: July 22, 2005
Creator: Stevens, Nye
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pension Issues Cloud Postal Reform Debate

Description: Reform of the business model of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was given new momentum by the July 2003 report of a blue-ribbon presidential commission. The commission concluded that USPS faces a long-term decline in mail volume and revenues, and unless its finances are shored up, a taxpayer bailout or loss of universal service is threatened. The 108th Congress held a dozen hearings on the commission’s report
Date: July 22, 2005
Creator: Stevens, Nye
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Postal Reform

Description: This report includes background and analysis of the United States postal reform. Causes of financial crisis, transformative plans, and activity from past congresses are also discussed in this report.
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: Stevens, Nye
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Postal Reform

Description: This report examines the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS's) financial crisis and the resulting legislative action. Although its short-term financial performance has improved, the USPS faces severe long-term financial straits, largely due to digital alternatives. USPS has a negative net worth and mounting obligations for retiree health benefits.
Date: March 25, 2005
Creator: Stevens, Nye
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Postal Revenue Forgone Appropriation: Overview and Current Issues

Description: When Congress put the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on a self-sustaining basis in 1971, it continued to subsidize the mailing costs of such groups as the blind, non-profit organizations, local newspapers, and publishers of educational material, by providing an appropriation to USPS to cover the revenues that were given up, or “forgone,” in charging below-cost rates to these groups.
Date: March 11, 2005
Creator: Stevens, Nye
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Postal Reform

Description: This report includes background and analysis of the United States postal reform. Causes of financial crisis, transformative plans, and activity from past congresses are also discussed in this report.
Date: January 14, 2005
Creator: Stevens, Nye
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Naming Post Offices Through Legislation

Description: This report describes how the practice of naming post offices through public law originated and how it is commonly done today. House and Senate practices for approving legislation and procedures followed by the U.S. Postal Service in organizing a dedication ceremony, are also described. An increasingly common form of legislation is the naming of post offices for former Members of Congress or other figures of local or national renown. About one in six public laws passed by the 108th Congress wa… more
Date: January 13, 2005
Creator: Stevens, Nye
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Naming Post Offices Through Legislation

Description: This report describes how the practice of naming post offices through public law originated and how it is commonly done today. House and Senate practices for approving such legislation, and procedures followed by the U.S. Postal Service in organizing a dedication ceremony, are also described.
Date: July 3, 2003
Creator: Stevens, Nye
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Commemorative Postage Stamps : History, Selection Criteria, and Revenue Potential

Description: This report provides information about the History, Selection Criteria, and Revenue Potential of Commemorative Postage Stamps. The Commemorative stamp program contributed an estimated $174 million in retained revenues for the USPS in the fiscal year 2002.
Date: April 15, 2003
Creator: Stevens, Nye
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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