the postal service is efficient.n for that is that they have been able to successfully integrate a huge amount of automation into their system while still obtaining great service from their employees. everybody knows who their letter carrier is. everybody knows in rural areas when the letter carrier will show up. what people don't know is that all of the other folks behind the scenes, the people who actually move the mail from here to there are just as diligent and are working just as hard. >> we will take a little break. we will identify this program, a white house chronicle" for the people listening on channel 124 on xm-sirius radio. we're very glad to be affiliated and i am glad to say that on fridays and noon, i have a half hour in which i talk about the week's news on those programs. you can also see this program around the world on the english language services of voice of america. i am talking today with art scara, a man with an encyclopedic knowledge of the postal service and knowledgeable services around the

postal service.has previously served as chairman of the federal trade commission, as, director of the office of management and budget. he has served on countless boards and but i do think one of his most challenging positions has to be the u.s. postal service and i also want to particularly emphasize that this is the center for the economics of the internet and we're very pleased that jim miller is ph.d economist. has written more than 100 scholarly publications, nine books and if anyone is in a position to understand the economics of the postal service it is jim miller. so with that, please join me in welcoming jim miller today. thank you. [applause] thank you, commissioner, it's a great pleasure to be here at the hudson institute where i count among the leading lights two of my former colleagues from the office of management and budget, michael horowitz and john weicker. i have other friends here. thank you for inviting me. it's quite an honor. today i will summarize the dilemma facing the u.s. pos

so i suspect that would be the case if you elimination of the uso postal service. neither fedex nor ups has any kind of universal service obligation. their service is ubiquitous, right? you have trouble finding a ups or fedex? no. but they have some flexibility where they located provisions, their frequency. for example, i live in rappahannock county, virginia. fedex and ups don't deliver on saturday. i know that. and for that reason i can make provisions. i can always go to the central place and pick up what i need. and, in fact, the postal service has proposed that we, given the authority to reduce service, and the question of six versus five, we vacate the post offices open. so if you had something, people say well, there will be people getting medicine on saturdays and they would go without the medicine. well, they could go to the post office and get the medicine instead of having it delivered to them. by the way, the postal regulatory commission recently finished a study where they found that the universal service obligation cost the postal service $4.4 billion

. >> a lot of talk about the postal service, cutbacks, closures. what do you think is going to happen? >> well, you know, i think some people on the hill are rushing into a judgment that would radically change postal service. i think we need to remember the constitution of the united states actually specifies in article one that there will be a postal service serving people of america. i think what we need to do is create a new business model and preup the postal service to go in other lines of business and raise revenue before we decide on radical things like go from six to five day delivery because that will affect all kinds of industries. the greeting card industry, drugs by mail, things like that would be very negatively affected if we were to rush into that. >> give me an idea of what plan you would put into effect? >> one of the things congress did was a requirement of the postal service, unique only to them that requires them 100% to prefund the pension plan. we could return to the postal service five to $7 billion a year if we change that a

postal service is desperate to stay afloat in this increasingly digital world. ar, postal workers moved 82 billion pieces of junk mail through the system. and in dire need of new revenue, the postal service is hoping to slip more of the catalogs into your mailbox. here is nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: it is one of those rituals of daily life that people either love or hate. >> junk mail has to go. the purpose of getting the po box was to eliminate all of it. >> i don't like it. it goes from the mailbox to the trash or to the recycling bin. >> reporter: the first thing you need to know about junk mail is that it is not junk to the postal service. it is serious money at a time when the usps is running an $8.5 billion short fall. while the volume of first class mail, personal letters to bills, dropped 7% last year, and a whopping 26% over the last four years, advertising mail increased 3% last year, now making up nearly half of all mail. and the postal service is running a series of tv ads urging businesses to send even more, with the reminder that mail rarely ge

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postal service in terms of delivering mail their. up until 2008, all of my mail was delivered to me at the great highway address. after that, the post office spent me a notice about changing and started this whole process. so the u.s. ps has established a precedent already, and they're the ones initiating the change at this point to update their computer services. i believe that changing the address and the confusion that comes to be because of the east -- because of the change, for example, is because it makes the situation very ripe for identity theft when there is confusion like this. i think for that reason, we should go forward in change to the great highway as well. city and county also has identified that street as the great highway by road signs and the concrete embossed name on the sidewalk indicating that that blog is in fact the great highway. i understand that some old maps do indicate that that street is called la playa, but because of the precedent, the city i did find the street, the postal service, all of that reinfor

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postal service is deep in debt and desperate to stay afloat. first class mail volume is way down.ers moved 82 billion pieces of what we think of junk mail through the system. in dire need revenue the postal service is hoping to slip even more of that junk mail into your mailbox. nbc's tom costello is in chantilly, virginia, with a look at junk mail. >> reporter: it is one of the rituals of daily life that people either love or hate. >> junk mail has to go. the purpose of getting a p.o. box was to eliminate all of. >> it i don't like it. it goes from the mailbox to the trash or to the recycling bin. >> reporter: the first thing you need to know about junk mail is it is not junk to the postal service. it is serious money. at a time usps is running $8.5 billion shortpaul. while the volume of first class mail, letters to bills, dropped several percent last year and whopping 26% over the last four years, advertising mail increased 3% last year and now making up nearly half of all mail. and the postal service is running a series of the ads urging businesses to send even more with a remi

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postal service to allow for a dual names in their computer system, to allow for the mail delivery for both la playa anne craig highway. we also checked with the emergency services to make sure that 911 or any fire services were not be disrupted with the dual street names. we thought that that would solve the problem. so over the years, we had not heard much until recently. we found out it was still problematic for residents applying for credit cards or who had just moved to that lot. due to the looming problems, supervisor to sponsor legislation to officially change the street name to great highway. actually, i have -- i apologize that there is not a better map, but we have a google map here. the streets in question actually split off into la playa about three-quarters of a way into the block. some of the neighbors here will share with you some history as to why they think this discrepancy happened many, many years ago. prior to the street name change, we're required to seek approval from mta, our department, and police department, and those departments have sent their approval to the

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