A bipartisan bill barring U.S. Postal Service executives from receiving bonuses until on-time mail delivery levels reach 95% was approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last week and could be considered by the full chamber when it returns to work next month.
Before the vote, Postmaster General David Steiner urged senators to reject the bill, saying in a private letter to the committee that freezing bonuses would be counterproductive.
The entire Alabama delegation in the House in late July introduced legislation that ties the postmaster general’s compensation to the Postal Service’s mail delivery and financial performance.
The No Bonuses for Bad Service Act, sponsored by Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, would prohibit the USPS Board of Governors from approving any additional compensation for the postmaster general and his deputy for a fiscal year in which the Postal Service doesn’t meet or exceed the an on-time delivery rate of 95% for all First-class and standard mail.
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