Postmaster takes case for five-day mail delivery to skeptical senators

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2. appointed by a Board of Governors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postmaster_General

Seems to me I recall head of Postal Workers' Union has had open disputes with Donahoe, arguing that this guy is more a corp. person than a people/union person.

'After repeatedly urging Congress to end the six-day requirement, Donahoe said postal officials had determined that he could take that action without congressional approval.

Moving to five-day delivery would close just 10 percent of the postal budget gap, Donahoe said, yet the controversy surrounding it stole the focus from other important financial issues.

Among them is a controversial proposal to move postal employees from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, which serves all federal workers, to a health insurance program run by the USPS.

Donahoe presented an updated health insurance proposal, but it received little attention compared with his five-day delivery plan.'

Sounds like more bad news to me, as USPS running its own health insurance program would put postal workers' health insurance in as much jeopardy as their jobs AND likely wouldn't be a good program without the leverage to negotiate like FEHBP.