Asked where he stood on the five-day week for mail delivery yesterday, Feb. 10, at the library, Rep. Danny Davis gave a litany of experts who had chimed in on the matter — lawyers, economists, and others, including “actuarians.”
It’s “an old issue,” he mused, picking his words with deliberation but ignoring the question. “Sometimes Congress quickly decides a thing, sometimes not,” he said.
Businesses, unions (as letter carriers), and other groups have opposed the change, he said — including Amazon, a major U.S. Postal Service customer, the USPS district supervisor, Peter Allen, added later.
“I’ve been in countries,” Davis continued, “where five women are put to clean a hotel room. In one of these, he asked the government host about this. “You Americans don’t understand. We believe that it’s important for as many to work as possible.’
“We have not reached that point,” Davis said, reporting the incident as…
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